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7 Questions with Syed Ali Arbaz Jafri
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7 Questions with Syed Ali Arbaz Jafri
Name: Syed Ali Arbaz Jafri
Current title: Vice President
Current organisation: Salsoft
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
In a world of inaction, over-promising and under-delivering
Every second man seems to claim himself and entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is someone that would never call himself an entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is someone that is happy to work, while all others are out partying.
The entrepreneurs drug is success
He is addicted to success.
And finally the entrepreneur knows one simple fact:
“I will make it, maybe not immediately but absolutely and definitely”
You have to hustle…
You have to think outside the box…
To make things happen when it seems impossibly difficult for anything to happen.
To continue to get up off the canvas when you are beaten down relentlessly.
WIN or LEARN. I never lose!
I will succeed, not immediately but absolutely and definitely.
I will take action when others hesitate
I will think big when others don’t
I will sacrifice when others won’t
I will dare to dream of greatness when others fear it.
I will outwork my competition DAY and NIGHT.
I am the captain of my fate, the master of my soul
The boss of my dreams, the king of my goals
To be hungry always, and never satisfied
Proud but never satisfied.
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1. What have you found most challenging as a CEO or executive of a large enterprise?
Failure's
2. How did you become a CEO or executive of a large enterprise? Can you please briefly tell the story?
Smartly Working
3. How do you structure your work days from waking up to going to sleep?
Sleep
Eat
Work (smartly)
Repeat
4. What's the most recent significant leadership lesson you've learned?
That patience is the key of success
5. What's one book that has had a profound impact on your leadership so far? Can you please briefly tell the story of how that book impacted your leadership?
Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up
6. How do you build leadership capacity in a large enterprise?
Understand your people and invest as much as you can in terms of both money and motivation
7. What is one meaningful story that comes to mind from your time as a CEO or executive of a large enterprise so far?
From struggle to success.