Thursday, April 26, 2007

Recap of the year

Hmm....Its exactly a year since i started work post ISB....this is a wrap up of what I have done (accomplished??) ;-)

  • Started the year with an unexpected raise!!
  • Understood that no role as defined to me existed and that i had create one for myself
  • dipped my feet into market understanding..a subject on which I was clueless!
  • Worked with all the departments across to get alignment to a common stated goal
  • The realized there was no such common goal :-)
  • Started feeling the pinch of working in an organization which was going through tough times
  • Felt like quitting, but wanted to continue...noone calls me a coward :-0
  • went on a trip to indonesia, mostly spent in a hotel with all corporate types !
  • Conducted a Corporate war game in india...which was widely appreciated
  • Then the lull before the storm.....The taskforce
  • Got inducted into a taskforce to improve sales in Tamil Nadu
  • 3months went by in understanding the problems, facing up to it and addressing it adequately
  • Designed and developed my first set of marketing campaigns....which was wildfire hit across the state
  • Learnt that strategy is best communicated thorugh actions and result for rapid scaling rather than words
  • Worked on a organizational motvational program, learnt the fine art of editing in the process :-)
  • Exited the taskforce on a very happy note...very successful, to the extent where the competiton copied the campaign that we designed :-)

On an aside, I also decked up a proper house with all the electronics a guy could want....Well done !! Towards the end, also started looking forward to the next phase of my life.

During these last 12 months, I thought life was very chaotic, but it all seems to be following a nice plan...lets see what the next year has in store for me!!

Cheers.....

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