Cover Story

Rohit Gaur
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Infragis�cs|Managing Director

Ankur Goel
Leadership lessons : Step outside your
comfort zone
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Rajiv Malik
Revolu�onizing the
Digital Ink Experience

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Rohan karnataki
Revolu�onizing the Indian
Tech-Industry

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Packiyanath Sivathanu
Enabling clients to accelerate
their digital
transforma�on story
Editor’s Note

Pioneering Social Change

A genuine leader affects social change and provides an entire generation with a fresh
perspective. Inspirational leaders are always regarded as remarkable individuals, and
their name survives even after they are long gone. We have seen several of these
outstanding entrepreneurs transform their fields through invention, passion, and
determination. These pioneering leaders also ignite the leadership revolution that
often creates several new leaders and businesses.

Recognizing the success of such influential leaders, Tycoon Success has shortlisted
"India's 10 Most Influential Tech Leaders to Follow in 2022." Featuring as the
Cover Story of this issue is the journey of Rohit Gaur, the Managing Director of
Infragistics, a world leader in providing tools to accelerate application design and
development. As the organization's Managing Director, Rohit has spearheaded
Infragistics operations in India for the past ten years. Previously, he served in
management roles at Microsoft, Symantec, and Serena Software. With more than
two decades of experience in sales, building relationships with customers, and
partnerships with large multinational companies, small and medium-sized
businesses, as well as Indian government organizations, Rohit helps maintain
Infragistics' position as a world leader in user interface development tools and
multi-platform enterprise software products and services. With his help, Infragistics
has organically grown for over 30 years and now has 250 employees with offices in
the U.S., U.K., Australasia, Japan, Uruguay, Bulgaria, and India.

We have also included a few more stories of leaders who deserve to be praised for
their immense contribution to the Indian tech scene. Inclusive are the stories of Rajiv
Malik, Sr. Director Wacom India; Rohan Karnataki, Founder Hindavi Technologies
Pvt. Ltd.; and Packiyanath Sivathanu, CEO and Co-founder of VueData
Technologies Ltd.

Let’s read !
 Cover Story

Rohit Gaur
Infragis�cs|Managing Director

Driving Productivity Across

Digital Product Teams
India's 10 Most Influential Tech Leaders to Follow in 2022
Driving Productivity Across
Digital Product Teams
F
ounded in 1989, Infragistics is a world leader
in providing tools to accelerate application
design and development. Several blue chip
companies, including Fidelity, Morgan Stanley,
Exxon, Ikea, Bank of America, and Intuit, depend on
Infragistics tools to build their applications.
Based in Gurgaon, India, Rohit Gaur has
spearheaded Infragistics operations in India for the
past decade. As the company's Managing Director,
he leads sales and operations for all Infragistics
software and services in India. An industry veteran,
Rohit has over two decades of experience in sales,
building relationships with clients and partners at
several large multi-national companies, small and
medium-sized businesses, and Indian government
organisations. Being a leader of the organisation,
Rohit helps Infragistics maintain its position as a
world leader in UI development tools and
multi-platform enterprise software products and
services. With his help, Infragistics has more than
250 employees, with offices spread across the U.S.,
Australia, Japan, Uruguay, Bulgaria, India, and the
U.K.
"I am proud to lead Infragistics' growth in India and
provide leading edge enterprise software that solves
problems for those working in the fast-paced field of
technology. I enjoy building trusted client
relationships, forming true partnerships with our
customers, helping them tackle new challenges, and
meeting their customers' needs in innovative ways,"
he stated.
Rohit started his first job as a Channel Manager at
Symantec Corp in 2001. He continued in the IT
space further and moved into Serena Software as an
Enterprise Account Manager. Later he joined
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Microsoft as Alliances Manager - North India. In
June 2011, he started serving Symantec as the
National Sales Manager - Enterprise (PSU) before
joining Infragistics in May 2013.
Groundbreaking Products
As an organisation, Infragistics stays ahead of its
competition by encouraging internal innovation in
product development and enhancement. One of its
latest product offerings is Reveal, an embedded
analytics platform allowing clients to integrate
analytical capabilities into existing applications to
bring real-time data insights to decision-makers.
Reveal brings the power of data to all users and
enables much quicker data-driven decisions inside
the application without switching the context.
Embedding Reveal into an application saves time,
increases productivity, and helps with a better
analytics experience.
Recently the organisation has also built a new digital
workplace tool named Slingshot. Clients can use this
platform to get the work done in the digital realm
and be productive irrespective of their location. The
best part about Slingshot is that it streamlines a
company's workplace tech stacks by providing
remote, in-person, and hybrid teams a single place to
collaborate, set goals, make data-driven decisions,
share content and communicate within the context
they are working on. This revolutionary tool keeps
people connected even when they are far apart and
transforms the digital workplace with a software
platform that can connect all departments, including
R&D, marketing, sales, customer support,
manufacturing, HR & IT.
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 The firm's other popular enterprise software
products include Indigo.Design, a
design-to-code system; App Builder, low
code/no-code software; and Infragistics
Ultimate, a leading UI/UX toolkit.

Embracing Innovation

Rohit says, "Companies like Infragistics,

which are clear market leaders, have one
common factor -- they all embrace
innovation. Not only can internal innovation
represent significant cost savings, but it can
also successfully originate new concepts and
enhance employee engagement. Because we
create teams that support innovation and
welcome creativity, everyone can be
involved in generating ideas, improving
those ideas, and prototyping the best ideas."

With the launch of the Infragistics

Innovation Lab, Rohit and his colleagues
successfully cemented the firm's
commitment to its internal inventors and
entrepreneurs. For several years, the
organisation informally developed
game-changing enterprise software products
in-house. Presently, Infragistics has a $50
million fund and a formal process for
constant innovation, which it needs to
continually stay ahead of the technology
curve. The firm's Innovation Lab encourages
its employees to contribute with a regular
stream of insights that could help shape any
upcoming innovation. It also empowers
internal inventors to experiment with
innovations beyond its core UI/UX products
without the need to generate immediate
revenue.
Tackling the Pandemic
When the pandemic started impacting organisations
and their employees, everything quickly moved
online, and employees struggled to tackle the new
normal and be productive without being able to
collaborate in person. However, Infragistics' global
Rohit Gaur
Infragis�cs|Managing Director
company already had a lot of people working
remotely, and the organisation had the needed
infrastructure in place to completely shift its
workforce online, resulting in high productivity
levels.
During the pandemic, many organisations started
working to redefine their workplaces to be much
more productive for in-person, remote, and hybrid
teams. As a company, Infragistics recognised that
these businesses were in dire need of a better digital
workplace with a single platform allowing their
teams to collaborate on data analytics, projects,
content, and chat. So, it ramped up its effort to
develop the revolutionary Slingshot platform to
support firms that were not fully prepared for the
pandemic and released this platform to meet the
needs of remote, hybrid, and in-person employees.

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 Picture of the Future

Infragistics is leading the enterprise software

market with cutting edge innovations in
low-code software, business intelligence
embedded analytics, and transformational
team-performance software. Its development
strategy goes beyond the UI/UX tools to include
product development tools, embedded analytics,
and digital workplace software.

Infragistics' founder and CEO Dean Guida

guides the firm in maintaining its focus on
innovation, improvement, and success in the
enterprise software tools market. Over the past
three decades, Infragistics has demonstrated a
passion for excellence and takes pride in the
quality of everything it does. In the future, it will
continue to develop solutions for its clients that
are rooted in a deep and thorough understanding
of their needs.

Dean Guida
Founder & CEO

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Revolutionizing the Digital Ink Experience
E
stablished in 1983 in Japan, Wacom is a
global leader in the pen display and tablet
market for creative users across the planet.
The brand Wacom is derived from the word ‘Wa,’
which means Harmony in Japanese. Wacom
products are widely used by the creative
communities, including; illustrators, animators,
graphic designers, editors, fashion designers, and
industrial design professionals.
“Led by its current Sr. Director, Rajiv Malik,
Wacom India also provides digital ink solutions for
its wide range of partners at global level Wacom is
providing Ink solutions to various partners using and
producing tablets and smartphones. However
Wacom India is focussed towards developing
Creative, Education and Digital Signature solution
markets only.”
Journey of the Leader
Rajiv started his professional career with an exciting
opportunity to promote Professional Recording
Media products in Film and Television Studios,
News and Entertainment Channels, Independent
Documentaries, and Film Makers.
He says, “As I networked with the industry, made
many good industry friends, while interacting with
some of the amazing and highly successful Creative
Directors, Artists, Technical Heads, I felt the need to
go deeper to understand how technological
advancements are helping the industry to unleash
the creativity.”
This was the crucial time of transition for the
industry from analog to digital. It eventually enabled
Rajiv to switch to the core industry of A/V
professionals, where core broadcast and digital
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imaging products have been an integral part of all
film and broadcast studios. With Electronics
Engineering as a base qualification, Rajiv has
always been very passionate about working closely
with the Creative Community and Technologists. He
has also pursued a master’s degree in Business
Administration at a later stage.
Not a Typical IT Company
“What I learned while joining Wacom is that it’s not
a typical IT trading company.”- Says Rajiv.
Creativity flows in Wacom’s DNA. It designs
products with a strong intention of supporting
creative professionals. He adds, “Diversified culture,
strong leadership, values, and ethics, with creativity
at the core, were reasons enough for me to join this
amazing company. This very well resonated with my
previous work background.”
Rajiv’s most ambitious project is transforming
traditional Wacom office set-ups into Creative
Experience Centers. He plans to redesign these
spaces to reverberate with creative minds, not just
for aspiring artists but also for the internal team
members. He feels Wacom’s customers must get the
feel of its products by simulating an artistic
environment. Along with the metro cities, Rajiv also
plans to expand Wacom India’s presence in smaller
cities and towns to provide the best experience to
the widely spread creative communities with diverse
backgrounds.
Tackling the Pandemic
Rajiv says, “Though the Pandemic was unfortunate
for all, however on the brighter side, our business
saw exponential growth.”
December 2022
 The pandemic
increased the
practical usage of pen
tablets in the
education sector.
During the lockdown
period, academicians
discovered how
digital pen tablets and
displays play a
critical role in remote
teaching and learning.
It helped people
realize the power of
digital tools, helping
professionals and
students communicate much more effectively
Rajiv Malik
without missing the natural flow of knowledge Wacom India|Sr. Director
transfer.

Picture of the Future

Soon distance education became much less
cumbersome. With more accessible and effective
education, many of the ed-tech groups came
forward and established themselves very quickly.
Rajiv further adds, “The Media and Entertainment
industry saw a big shift towards OTT. Access to
Creative as well as Academic Education, and WFH
for Corporate sector gave a big boost to our
business.”
Current Market
Rajiv feels the market is changing rapidly, even
faster than it ever did in the past. With the
ever-changing situation, most institutions that have
already experienced the advantage of digital tools
are constantly working on setting up Hybrid
set-ups/classrooms for a long-term perspective.
He believes the market has evolved to a large extent
and will continue to evolve in segments like
education, film, and television production in the
coming years. Also, content creation for cinemas is
bouncing back to its earlier levels after two
consecutive years of slowdown.
Wacom plans to further develop and introduce its
state-of-the-art products and cutting-edge
technologies to support artists express their creativity
safely. Rajiv says, “Supporting communities by
introducing easier to use, highly accurate devices to
support creative expressions will remain at the core.
There’s a growing need to secure the precious
content created by artists, which is being made
possible with the help of blockchain technologies.”
The company wants to further expand its presence
and strengthen close two-way communication with
its clients via various platforms. By demonstrating its
latest products, solutions and the best hands on
experience to budding professional, Wacom’s direct
presence as a legal entity in India makes a lot of
difference.

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Revolutionizing the Indian Tech-Industry
H
indavi Technologies, led by its founder Mr.
Rohan Karnataki, is a US based IT Services
& Product Development company. Over the
last 14 years, Hindavi Technologies has been at the
forefront of providing IT solutions and has
completed over 1000 projects for more than 300
clients globally.
Since its foundation in 2009, the organization has
ventured into Product Development in 2015 with its
flagship product Xporience, an Event Technology
Platform for various exhibitions and conferences. It
is now one of the most sought-after products for
global event organizers spread across Dubai,
Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom, and
Europe. Till date, Xporience has worked with many
coveted clients, including Dubai Expo 2020,
MCI(Switzerland), and dmg::events, amongst
others.
After the overwhelming success of its flagship
product, Hindavi Technologies has launched its
second Product - CareerFirst Edutech, which is
India’s first 360° degree Career Design Platform for
upskilling and making India Employable.
Rohan and Hindavi Technologies has been
recognized with awards like “Top 10 Mobility
Companies in India - 2018”, “Best Product
Development Company - 2019”, and the “Best
Entrepreneur Award - 2021”, “Best Companies to
Work for - 2022.”
The organization leverages its massive domain and
technology experience to provide various services
like IT Services (UI/UX, Mobility, IoT, Cloud
Computing, and Digital marketing), IT Solutions
(Application Development, Product Engineering,
Quality Assurance, and Testing, Startup MVP, IT
Consulting, and Enterprise Product Development),
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Cyber-Security Consulting (Assessments & Audits,
Compliance, Infrastructure Security, Vendor
Assessment, Cybersec Awareness), Remote
Staffing(Staff Augmentation, Offshore Staffing, IT
Outsourcing, RPO Services, and Contract Staffing).
The Steadfast Leader
As the founder of Hindavi Technologies, Mr. Rohan
Karnataki realized pretty early that India is one of
the youngest countries, with over 62% of the
population in the working age group and 54% of the
population below 25 years of age. He feels the
present era of technological innovation provides an
excellent opportunity to leverage intellectual capital
and positively impact Indian society.
“My main motivation to start a business venture is to
work with such bright young minds and create
innovative products in the field of education,
healthcare, and core technology.” - he says.
A first-generation techpreneur with more than a
decade’s experience in the IT industry, Rohan is a
Computer Science graduate and holds a management
degree from Australian National University,
Canberra.
A serial entrepreneur at heart, Rohan started his first
business at the age of 8 by selling popsicles at a
local bus depot, which helped him learn the value
and meaning of time, money, and an honest day’s
work. Later while studying in college, he ran a
successful facility management service, employing
seasonal farmers who were out of work during the
off-season. He also curated an entirely
commission-free marketplace for farmers to sell
their products directly online, eliminating
middlemen and increasing farmers’ profits.
December 2022
 Later in 2011, Rohan Co-founded Colortronic
Studios Pvt Ltd, a Pune-based creative agency
encompassing strategy, design, technology, and
media. He launched 100 Days of Walking in
2020, a global health and fitness movement
aimed to motivate people and inculcate
walking as a part of their lifestyle. Rohan is
also the Founder of CareerFirst Edutech,
India’s premier Ed-tech 360° Career Design
Platform.

Implementing New Ideas

Rohan kickstarted an Intrapreneur Program in

the organization, where employees come up
with their product ideas, and the company
encourages them to work on their ideas by
giving them the necessary creative
independence to work on a minimum viable

product (MVP). Rohan is also making giant
strides in upskilling these intrapreneurs to help
them understand various aspects of business
and become successful.
Additionally, Rohan’s new edtech startup
CareerFirst Edutech assists students and employees
in identifying their best career roadmap and
pursuing the proper education and skill-sets to get
their dream jobs or start a business, depending on
their aspirations, values, and interests. CareerFirst
provides technology training and upskilling to
graduate students and also provides full scholarships
to deserving students.
Tackling the Pandemic
The 2020 pandemic affected most of the industries
to a great extent. However, Rohan recognized this as
an opportunity and created a roadmap to enhance
the employee skill sets, create various new
future-ready products, and a post-pandemic growth
roadmap.
He helped employees to get trained in the latest
technologies, who were also allowed to publish white
papers related to the IT sector and other domains
related to various products of Hindavi Technologies.
Rohan karnataki
Hindavi Technologies Pvt. Ltd.|Founder
In order to upgrade the employability skill sets,
Hindavi technologies also conducted various
non-technical workshops within the organization.
Also, regular brainstorming sessions helped its teams
to discuss new product feature ideas, and employees
were also rewarded for their valuable contributions.
As a result of these activities, the organization started
an entirely online Event Technology Platform for
Event organizers, which empowers online
exhibitions and conferences and seamlessly
integrates with their existing product offerings. Led
by its founder Rohan Karnataki, Hindavi
Technologies also ventured into its second product
CareerFirst, an ed-tech platform addressing the
employability gap in India.
Exciting Times Ahead
Rohan feels this is the most exciting time in the
technology industry. Innovation is being made in

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various fields, including AI, ML, Robotics Process
Automation(RPA), Quantum Computing, VR, AR,

“
IoT, Blockchain, and Cyber Security.

He says, “There is a huge gap for Product and

The People
Service Providers in this trillion-dollar economy.
Considering the current startup eco-systems and
govt. policies, I believe that the current market
scenario opens up a huge business opportunity for who are
the millennial generation.” crazy enough
When it comes to the future, Rohan aspires to be at
to think
the forefront of technological innovation as a
technology evangelist. On the other hand, Hindavi
they can
Technologies also plans to create various change the
value-based products in the healthcare and education
sector by using technologies like AI/ML, AR/VR,
and Blockchain.

To achieve this, the firm has an R&D team that

world, are
the ones
that do!
“
works in tandem with educational institutions,
industry mentors, and innovators. Hindavi
Technologies also has strong connections with the
investing and startup community to kickstart various
new projects and create the new unicorns in India.

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ENABLING CLIENTS TO ACCELERATE THEIR
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STORY
A
n engineer by heart, Packiyanath
Sivathanu (Packy), the CEO and
co-founder of VueData India, started his
journey in the software industry more than two
decades ago, just after graduating as a computer
science engineer. He was always inspired by the
startup culture and was drawn by firms that wanted
to do things differently in terms of providing
technology solutions to address customer problems.
Initially, Packy worked for several startups in India,
which provided him with enough opportunities to
learn, do something challenging, and wear many
hats while performing different roles. With his
eagerness to work more closely with clients, Packy
relocated to the U.S. and worked with organizations
like Microsoft, TMobile, Amazon, Sequent, etc.
After nearly a decade of working in the U.S., a
personal situation forced Packy to return back to
India. Along with Muru Ganesan who is Director,
and CEO, of the firm’s Seattle office they founded
VueData headquartered in Seattle, WA., with offices
in Chennai and Bangalore, India. VueData provides
end-to-end IT services to some of the fortune 500
companies globally, focusing on Retail, Media, and
enterprise markets to achieve business
transformation by leveraging industry insight and
technological expertise. The organization helps its
clients by using the latest technologies and solving
complex problems. Outside of its service offerings,
VueData has also a suite of products, ‘Tentkotta,’ an
OTT platform specifically made for South Indian
films, db-DAAS, an end-to-end Database Release
automation tool and go-boss.com which is an one
stop solution to create your own white labeled
streaming platform / service.
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The Motivation to Create VueData
Packy feels that even though people talk a lot about
innovation and leadership but when it comes to
giving employees the needed room to innovate and
grow, there is always a hush-hush and pushback.
Often this fear of failure gets ingested, which in
return stops the proper thought process of some of
the brightest minds in the business.
“At VueData, its always employee first. we give
them the freedom to be heard. We do our best to
ensure that part of our culture at VueData is
reflected in everything we do.”- says Packy.
“It is imperative that not just the leadership but
everyone in the organization understands why and
how we do what we do. We preach and follow that
top-down throughout the organization in anything
that we do at work and outside.”- he added further.
Tackling the Pandemic
Even with so much negativity, the pandemic did
bring in some very positive aspects for the
organization. Challenged with a steep learning
curve, it was during these challenging times that
employees understood the importance of proactive
communication not only with the clients but also
within their teams to stay up-to-date. Eventually,
this proactive communication led to increased trust
between team members and leaders regarding how
they work together and who has their back during
critical times. Above all, this increased the overall
empathy towards colleagues by quite a few notches.
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I would like to give
credit to our
employees who
supported us all
through the
pandemic. They
trusted us, and they
helped us take care
of our customers
without any impact
on the business.
”
 says Packy

Packiyanath Sivathanu
CEO & co-founder
VueData Technologies Ltd, India

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 All these together have increased VueData’s overall
IT operations efficiency by up to 30 percent.
However, the most challenging part for companies
was retaining talents during the Great Resignation
period. Packy believes that VueData failed on a few
strategies, but the HR team quickly learned from
the mistakes, realigned themselves, and hit the
ground running to adjust to the new norms.

Current Market Situation

Packy feels the IT industry has successfully

sustained the uncertainty that the pandemic bought
alongside. However, despite rapid growth in digital
transformation and technological innovation, there
are also signs of a slowdown in business initiatives.
In a broader sense, this could be seen as a measured
approach adopted by the organizations to keep their
eyes on the market, which has a high chance of
plunging into recession.

“Positively, this might be seen as a market

correction post-uncertainty adjustment rather than
a market collapse. It’s a wait-and-watch game while
being conservative and planning to sustain, at this
point, I guess.”- he added.

Picture of the Future

As a part of its technology focus, VueData is

heavily focused on enabling a few of its clients to
move towards the Metaverse coupled with
blockchain technology. At present, some members
of the organization’s advanced technology team are
focusing on creating revolutionary products to help
some of its clients transition smoothly into a virtual
3D world. Packy explains that moving into a virtual
world may seem fancy, but that opens up new
concerns about data privacy and security, where
VueData is currently focusing on to grow its
practices and solutions even further.
Additionally, the firm has plans to expand its team
in South America and various other countries in
Asia. Within India, the company has seen a lot of
success in hiring talented individuals from tier II
and tier III cities.

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 Leadership Lessons : Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
I have had the privilege of being the country manager for Poly India & SAARC for over 3 years and one of my
biggest learnings so far is : become comfortable with being uncomfortable. As a business leader, you will have
to be decisive, take tough decisions (and stand by them) and see how you motivate your team to achieve the
best outcomes.

If I could impart five tips and learnings from my personal leadership journey, it would be :
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1. Take that giant leap of faith. You never know; it might just be worth it, and the decision to make that
jump may end up changing your life and career.

Often, growth happens when we step outside our comfort zone. Have conviction and self-belief in yourself
and your abilities, and take a giant leap of faith when you are presented with an opportunity. It maybe scary at
first and you may even end up failing, however, you would have had the satisfaction of having tried.

2. Give in your 100%, no matter what you are doing

Like the Bhagavad Gita also says, “The wise man lets go of all the results, whether good or bad, and is
focused on the action alone.”

I want to take this a step further and modify it by saying, give it your 100%, whatever actions you perform,
personal or professional, give it your all, and whenever you do this, despite the fact that you may not get your
most desirable or ideal outcome, the results still won’t be half as bad because your hard work and efforts
never go to waste.

3. Master the art of intrinsic motivation

Even when no one else is watching you, or there is no one to support you or push you to deliver
your best, you owe it to yourself to discover your own potential. When you learn to motivate
and push yourself without any external motivators like a manager watching over you or
even when there are no sales numbers or deliverables that are attached to your
performance, is when you have become a true leader and a great performer.

4. To be a good leader, you need to learn to lead with your head, heart, and hands.

The head to envision the future and the priorities that are needed to succeed, the
heart to inspire and empower my employees and the hands to ensure innovative and
agile-execution capabilities.

5. Be decisive, loyal and committed

As a leader, you will have to sometimes make tough decisions. Make these
decisions and stick by them. There is no shortcut to hard work; learn about loyalty
and commitment and embody its principles. Be loyal and committed to your
organisation, customers, and partners. Always put yourself in your customers’
shoes and think about their pain points and how you can support them. Be
committed not just to your own professional growth but also to the organisation’s
overall growth and success.
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Remember, in the end,
we will only regret the chances
that we didn’t take

ANKUR GOEL
Managing Director
Poly India & SAARC

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