In Success is a journey, not a destination, the famous quote by author and novelist Ben Sweetland, has been the mantra of life for Arun Kumar--Director - IT, GlobalLogic India. With over thirteen years of experience in the IT domain, Kumar believes in taking step by step approach to perfection. He is a fun loving person who likes to spend most of his time with family and friends. For him, its the smart work that creates a difference whereas hype almost never works.
One must be able to smartly understand the need of the hour rather than just trying to work harder, he says.
Having a great passion towards technology he keeps a close tab on latest technology trends to ensure that he can use the benefits for the organisation. For him a successful manager should have the quality of emotional intelligence as well as feet firm on the ground.
This technocrats greatest moment of life came when he got married with the person whom he loved so much. My life changed from being a technocrat to a balanced technocrat. I am sure you understand, he laughs.
Talking about the business challenges, he advises that an IT Manager should know the right technology demands and emphasises on creating an IT Infrastructure that should align with the future business challenges of an entity. He however cautions that its crucial for the management to create the right working environment which works as a catalyst and enable people to work in a team to achieve the organization goal and have a feeling of personal success during the way. But what about the negative vibes that may stop you acting positively?
While he considers himself fortunate to handle many exciting assignments in his professional career, he recalls that the most challenging assignment till date was the assignment in his first company Globalogic where he got to learn the different facets and processes of merging IT infrastructure and policies of the company. At present, he is working upon an exciting assignment to move his organisation from an inhouse messaging and collaboration tool to cloud based Google Apps.
My simple advise for achieving your goals is to share the space with right set of people. I do believe that people around you make a big difference to your life. Hence i choose my surroundings with caution, he shares.
So is that a secret formula of success for him? My success mantra is having a strong faith in doing new things and trying and retrying till one gets to the goal, however, at times, i know that things just do not work even after all the hardwork. Thats when we need to remember that it will pass soon. One should always take life as it comes, he says.
Why not? Afterall, change is the only thing which is constant and one need to be ready to accept and learn from it.
In the current business landscape, where the competition is fierce and everyone constantly eye the top position, has he ever got tempted by the top seat of CIO?
I am tempted by great work which can really stretch myself and where i can put all my imagination, hardwork and knowledge to get the job done. CIO/CTO is one of those designation which brings this challenge, he admits candidly.
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