Boxed IN…

Creativity :
The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and idiosyncratic way which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and originality, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

Box : a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.

Business development : The set of efforts for identifying, researching, analyzing and bringing to market new businesses and new products.

Australians have a nice accent, but it is funny. They always seem to be high..maybe because they are known for their beer consumption, but still! I called up this one guy “Hello XXXXX, Good Morning, This is Yogi from XXXXXX Systems Ltd. We are blah blah blah and I was wondering if we could arrange a meeting in the forthcoming week to discover how we can collaborate beneficially blah blah”, and then I hear an “UHHHHHHH, wellll, what do you do again?” in a totally drunk, unable to comprehend voice, BAM! Interest levels down..repeat purpose, yea yea, and then after about half hour of slow explaining talk, finally meeting fixed.

The reason why I used the above is when you realize that you have spoken coherently(considering I have researched hours on accent neutralization and all those big words) and then realize that they probably just are not willing to listen because they are either pre-occupied or they just don’t like your voice or something. Then, wham you are into the box, classified boring!! Of course, I tend to do the same with people who just don’t strike the right chord with me..either shut down my brain..or cut them off! So what do you do change your voice, do a desi accent, “HELLO , how y’alllllll DOINGU?” That has to be the best mix of southern twanged tamizhian!!

Then you realize the necessity of making yourself interesting, especially over the phone or something where you cant use appearance and facial expressions..like blow up your nostrils and its bound to attract attention or something like that, it is probably to what extent you will go to gain attention.

If you call an Indian up in a foreign land, 95 out of 100 times, there is excitement in just hearing your voice! The British – “These bastards have made a move into my bloody country and even taken over the production of my tea and cookies!”. The Australian – “UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, wellllll, what do you do again??”, The Chinese – “Velly goodh!”, The American – “Hold on, my presidents dropping a bomb again!” and so on..

In a box I am, offshore business development, especially cold calling, requires a certain amount of skill, I am getting there though, America and the UK are easy now, Australia, just figuring it out…Japan –“MEE NOOOO TLYING!”.

This post is probably out of frustration of having to talk to a few bunch of aussies who just cant seem to understand why an Indian with a base of about ten times the size of their company and their country would still call them up to see if there are avenues to expand!! So much for contentment..:)

Oh and hopefully, i will be able to keep this layout for the next couple posts atleast before i change it :), sandman was just a neccesity!! and as always scrolling till the bottom helps!!

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