It will remain IMPOSSIBLE, only till you actually believe it is ACHIEVABLE.......

It was January 22nd, 2007 when I joined the world of boldness and immediately discovered this is just not a “statement” ;). This was my first corporate experience and I had been given just one week time to get my act together and master the tools and process which were almost scoffing my idiotism, each time when I used to log-in and goofed up. I joined as a replacement for someone who kissed the good bye to HCL and about to leave in a week’s time. But one thing I always told myself that “I CAN DO IT” if it is meant to be done by human race :), I might take 20 days if a superior mind can do it in 7 days but I’ll do it eventually. And that’s exactly what I told myself in that situation that “Rocket Science” is one stream everything else has MORAL SCIENCE and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE as a backdrop, provided you know how to use effectively what you hold on your shoulder :).

HCL made me learn the art of swimming by pushing me into the waters despite me being coming from deserted place where perhaps there was no water at the first place forget about swimming. So once I got control of situation and rainy day vanished, bright Sunny days started unfolding. “Life is beautiful” theme came back into scene and then one fine morning I opened my desktop to read this mail which was to change everything in jiffy. It was a notification for Review with our global head and first time post my joining each one of us were being asked to be present there. It was a Video Conference meeting since the chairperson was in Chennai but we reached the venue to realize that perhaps technology is trying to safeguards us ;). VC refused to work and then our Boss suggested if we can have a telecon. But then we got another twist in tale when Chairperson declined to have a call unless VC is there. Finally after lot of struggle VC worked and the first statement came from Chennai like cruise missile of uncle Sam to Bagdad “I wanted to do the VC just to show you guyz my sad face resultant your performance”. I was shell shocked because we were doing well in terms of numbers vis-e-vis industry benchmark but as they say great leaders come with shock therapy to wake you up sometime. He further continued “What you are doing is great and you are religiously hitting the numbers but my issue is bar is not going up, limit is not getting pushed further and I don’t know how much you believe in yourself as a TEAM but I can bet my life you have potential to achieve unthinkable”. And he concluded by bestowing a target which looked monstrous at that very moment for us. We felt exactly like Ashish Nehra he would have felt if asked to open the batting against Joel Garner :)

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The conviction, confidence and faith with which he uttered those words infused new lease of confidence in us. We started believing that very moment that perhaps we can do it and told ourselves let’s give it a shot. And before closing the meeting he put the cherry on cake by saying if you will achieve this target, company will sponsor a team outing to location of your choice. Each of us knew that we need to dismantle our closely cherished beliefs, process and way of working with immediate effect to achieve this. We needed to wipe out our boards and all needed to be redrawn in clean slate and that’s exactly what we did. We sat together and distributed the jobs keeping the forte of each individual in account. Our job nature was such that it target demanded a travelathon across India but we had some soft powers in our team. They were equally upbeat about the job in hand we decided that they will travel less vis-e-vis masculine power of the team idea was to play on team’s strength to come-up with a sustainable planning to yeild quick results. I and one of my colleague had our bag packed for next 2.5months we travelled across India, wherever there was possibility of getting the talent including the cities like Indore, Vizag , Chandigarh , Bhubaneswar other than all major IT hubs.

We had a stipulated timeline of 60 days to achieve this. It was 7 days to deadline and we realized we were strikingly close to target but almost all the cities were being visited by then and we were in no idea zone as a team. We all knew it is litmus test ,elephant has been pass through only tail has stuck and we can’t let that spoil all our hard work, weekends which we spent travelling chasing this target for last 2 months just like that. It required one last display of our non exhaustive energy and enthusiasms and at last we put that in for exhibition again. Henceforth ecstasy followed, mail of appreciation pouring in from all quarters ,including our maverick CEO and we all know he doesn’t utter a word unless he actually mean it and he wrote back just onw word “GREAT !!!!”. “Life is beautiful” theme came back to scene straight away we went to GOA for 2 nights 3 days and it was like living a dream more so because we earned it by putting so much together. We all were imperfect and full of shortcomings as individual but when we came together we made one heck of a team which redefined the awesomeness by complementing for each other’s weakness and made this TEAM a SUPER ACHIEVER. It was close to impossible target when we heard it first time but once we started believing ourselves that we can do it and started unleashing our common passion to optimum everything started falling in place. There is nothing more powerful than “UNITED TEAM” on “COMELLING MISSION”. Start believing it now, Impossible is just an illusion if you back yourself to give it all what you have....you will make it happen everytime.