A Rubber Band

If you have a lot of colored pens on your desk and a paper, how long does it take you to draw beautiful mulicolored lines or multicolored lines evenly spaced apart? Now, take a rubber band and tie the pens together and in one stroke, you will find this possible. This is now trivial. The power is not in the pen or paper or you, the power is in the way your small rubber band held everything together.

One common problem always in an organization is that everyone is like a colored pen wanting to exhibit the beautiful things they can draw. But very few people want to be the rubber band that brings everyone together to make the drawing beautiful and even better, easy.

To be a leader, be the rubber band. That is where value and useful experience lies.

Hold them together

It is efficiency everywhere

I have been traveling this month a lot for conferences, training and most importantly demoing Chip Lead’s office tool. It has been a wonderful experience so far. I am writing this blog from the Phoenix airport .

One of the most important aspect of collaborating with somebody is the efficiency you can bring to their table. The problems you can solve for them, the benefits you can provide them, the relief you can bring them, and the contacts you can bring to their table. It is always about them! I have found this attitude to help me a great deal in getting the ideas across and open new avenues and problems to solve. The month I have met some wonderful people, in and outside Qualcomm. These people have brainstormed with me, have criticized my ideas, constructed my mindset, opened my mind towards problems that I was taking for granted and helped me become professionally grow.

There are challenges everywhere if we look carefully. Everyday is an opportunity to solve something new, make the world around us a better place.

As an intrapreneur, it is more important to be aware of the problems your company is trying solve. Talking to people on different sites or teams or mindsets helps a great deal. What you think is the least significant can actually be the most significant problem. Another thing, an intrapreneur has to remember is the motivation to solve something. If your motivation is personal glory, you won’t get far. You will get into emotional battles on insignificant issues. The real reason I want to solve a problem in my company is to relish the challenge, and be a signficant part of the next step ahead. This will win friends and supporters who love the copany as much as you do and who love solving problems as much as you do.  Remember that a selfish person can never be an intrapreneur.

Anyway, my apologies for a long delay in posting. I should be more regular here onwards!!