the wow moment!

Dear people,

when i started this blog, it was meant to be more of a diary blog than what it is now, and today, i intend to satisfy that purpose. I ve been busy(not as much as i pretend i am), so much has been happening that looking back you feel ” ok, now come on, i ve been busy, so much has been happening, wait a min, what exactly happened?” you see i am blank there and i hate that feeling.

the last month and half was very productive, was it ?, well !! i am looking for a proper word, i ve been learning so many things which i must NOT do.is there a word for that ?why bother anyways ???i have been traveling from team to team and now i am ‘enlightened’ (yes, even normal people can get enlightened; you need not necessarily be a Chinese monk ).

Let me tell you this thing about people, you see a billion people, the billion and oneth will be different. So, honestly, there is no point thinking about them. For mathematicians and nerds, Net count of types of people= Net count of people. Its really funny and exciting to work with a bunch of crazy people(in a perfect real world, all people are someway or the other crazy).

To start off (you see i am very nagging bozo, this is the 4th para and i am still starting); let me discuss some thing called YBAH,Young Business Associaion Of Hyderabad. now this was some sort of a business organization started by an alumni of our college, and because me and my bunch of friends somewhat knew how to talk to people, throw around some charisma, we were made the ‘core members’. So what did we do? Well, something. So you are a bunch of dynamic people, know how to pretend that you are very cool and all, does that mean you can do business ??Life is supposed to be simple, everything that pertains to life is also meant to be simple. At YBAH, we had a mission statement that was more or less general, a twelve year old could have come up with the same thing. I didn’t realize it then, but now i feel strongly, that was where it was beginning to screw up. You see you started an organization with a foundation that has nothing new to offer, you lack something called a USP, you cant expect to survive. Only close contacts and friends will become your members and thats exactly what happened here. And talk of professionalism, believe me - its not about the formals!!! wonder when people will understand that !! YBAH offered in its statement that members will get management classes and internships and all, but, what type of management classes, no one knew! who was going to lecture, we had no answer. When we asked this, our whims were satisfied by some long convincing nonsense about what we can do and all. The power of Speech ! i tell you, this is very dangerous, you not only screw but kill the prospects of your long term relations. We are here to do business, not to preach or throw attitude. When people asked us whats going around, we played the same dirty trick, we came up with a list of nonsensical blah blah so that people come running to us. You see such tricks work only once. You will be wiped off, you need people to do business.

Alarmed with all this and filled with a sense of pride and dedication, the YBAH team kicks off to get sponsors for an event called EDGE(Entrepreneurship Development Growth and Excellence). You see the name was posh. period. The so very ‘experienced’ seniors came up with lists and divided the core members to go for marketing. Do you think it worked, NO. Ill tell you why ? Firstly, we didn’t have anything to sell i.e we were not offering anything new. To be very honest we were not sure if we had anything at all to sell, we didnt know where to go, we were ‘passion driven’ here, passions don’t quite end up sweet, you see you end up feeling like the insect who gets hit by the bulb. Passionate things only feel good for a little while, you need to focus on naked ground realities. We senselessly went to Google, Dell, Deloitte and a truckload of other high funda companies and guess what we told them, we were like ‘ you see there was this amazing event two years ago and we want to do it again, will you give us sponsorship ?’ why we wanted to do ? we didnt know. how we were going to do ? we didnt know. Being enthu is good, but its always better if you are smart first and brave next.

Thats how it all ended, business is not about making visiting cards, printing lists and showing off how good you look in formals. Common sense is a blessing.