The Board Room

For every warrior, there is a grand battlefield. For every leader there is his motherland or father land for a few. For every traveler there is, his share of land mass to be discovered, for every scientist or inventor there is the new element or invention to be created and for every artist there is that one painting for which his brush awaits………..but what of the new individuals on the scene?? The corporate warriors! Where do they stand? Where do they make their mark??

Legends are not made by getting the TATA, Reliance, Wipro salary offers nor are they made being a Neti-techi-mechi-chemi engineer with an MBA or an MS. ever heard of a world famous marketing guy or a software engineer (Bill gates was never a soft ware guy…mind you)?? Well....no!
You wont find Derek’ O’Brian saying ‘name the five famous accountants in the corporate world?’ in Bornvita quiz masters .

So where do these guys get their immortality?? The answer is the board rooms!

Yes those sweet little conference rooms which smell of stale AC air, smoked cigarettes, coffee and the 150/- room freshener! Everyone waits for THE presentation when he or she has the rapt attention of every ear and eye in the board room. The day when they will deliver those dream figures and get the applause enough to last a lifetime, promising progress and mainly promotion!

The arena is set, the boss or the client is the, disgustingly the princess of final approval whom u have to please and be its savior. On one hand you have the acolytes of negation and on the other the angels of doubt, fending them with your true sword of statistical data and complete research shielded with the power of the MS PowerPoint, you battle on. The angels of doubt mount the first attack….they always do. You cut brilliantly with established proof. Their doubts clash against your strong based data and with the final sweep you finish off the doubts.

Look out! On the right! The volley of negations!! They have strongly mounted the attack with a NO but you are determined to show them NOW! They ask for credibility, you show them the end results.
No!…..
now!…
but then…
this is how…
you are wrong….
not this time….
but not with that….
that and also with this!

And lo! You shineth forth! The damsel of final approval smiles from north clearing all doubts, removing all no’s. She agrees, she is she impressed, she say yes (to your proposal) and you get your golden chance. What follows next or goes on is a different story but the day is yours!

People leave, you stay. Sitting on the chair, as the lights go dim, the AC shudders to a clumsy death and the clamor of people vanishes. You look around the room, you again congratulate yourself, you look around the room and weirdly or strangely somewhere in your mind, and you thank it. She has given what you seeked.

You are the hero; in that room you are now immortal.