On a rainy Day...

m stumbled over this wonderful speech from Rajat Gupta, former MD-Mckinsey Company. truly thought-provoking.

I always admired watching the miracles of technology on the "Discovery" during my late childhood days, which drove me to get a degree which symbolises the boundless digital world. Thanks to my hard-work, finally I forayed into the world of "commercialised" technology. This world of me teaches you more of customers, values, integrity by "Applying Thought" day after day than R&D in your technology. It does teach you to penetrate into the technology for more career points.

Thanks to the domain I work, which keeps you on the edge by confronting on the global delivery model. A decade ago, technological work which came to India as part of "Outsourcing", drove the tech companies to battle hard to get the Project accounts. In order to win the $ minitng accounts, they came up with lots of strategies, one of which is the all famous "Offshore-Onsite" model. This model allowed "few" techies to work at the client place by driving most of the work to ODCs. The cardinal value of "Few", always keep techies guessing and enthufied at their ODC. Now, who is not penchant about global client exposure, coupled to the fact that, you wud be fattening your bank account.

The word "Onsite" itself is so pampering, solely because of the exposure, culture, challenges etc. coupled with Dollar/Euro routine transactions. Working at client place, always lets you prove your mettle on the edge and visibility is exponentially high compared to your global delivery manager visualising you on his Microsft Outlook. You always get to contemplate your technical thoughts with people whom u do not know personally, albeit technology being Universal.

Profs(most of them) who work in software industry are always on the look-out to colour up their Passport pages. memoirs of my ex-colleague who had Visa stamping of 6 different countries as he was very proactive every time he entered into a new account which involved a different geographical position, before he could fly he was moved out of the project :-(. Hope he makes it through this time atleast.

The weather is too good to miss out for a stroll. Ciaoo...