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My confidence, my passion to succeed, my ability to dream

My confidence, my passion to succeed, my ability to dream are the ultimate things that drives my life. Today I am working as a Solutions Architect and an agile practitioner and sometimes I think about my past where I started my career 8 years back. I still remember that day; my friend Antu Mammen drove me to an old building in Wythenshawe, Manchester. He drove me there only because I don't have enough money to get a train ticket. My bank balance was 20 pounds that day. He asked me to put 10 pound worth of petrol.  Before going for that interview I decided, if I am not getting that job I will be leaving UK. But fortunately or unfortunately Mr J Fisher IT director at Calrom Ltd offered me the Job, even though I reached there 20 min late for the interview. After getting the offer letter I walked towards Antu, he was standing in front of McDonald's where we parked the car. He was sad and told me he kept the key inside the car and locked the doors. But I smiled and told him fi

(my) Management v/s Leadership

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management” by Alan Murray describes -  Leadership and management must go hand in hand. They are not the same thing. But they are necessarily linked, and complementary. Any effort to separate the two is likely to cause more problems than it solves. I read the above lines from someone from LinkedIn who actually sent me a personal email regarding one of my   crazy blog posts. I didn’t want to reply because I know the basic electronics and the post was more about my fiction than the actual electronics. One day I was casually browsing through his LinkedIn profile and found some interesting articles relating to leadership, management and technical leadership. Since then I was thinking to write about the leadership and management. I usually take my writing through some famous quotes, in this case also no difference . Recently I have just finished reading the autobiography of the Indian   Guru Osho and I like to elucidate my leadership and manag