An Inspiring evening with Vivek Pawar
Being an ardent enthusiast, with dreams of entrepreneurship, i always do look for people from whom i can get inspired from. Few days ago, i came across an ad in allaboutbelgaum (AAB), Belgaum's premium news and current affairs website, about Vivek Pawar, Founder, Executive Chairman, Sankalp Semiconductor, giving a talk under "My Story" Series of Talk initiated by KLS IMER, Hindwadi, Belgaum.
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Mr Vivek brings in 20 years of industry experience in varied functions of General Management, Operations, Program Management, Customer Relations and rich experience in in Mixed signal and Analog Product Design, System on Chip (SoC) Development, including firmware development.
Prior to Sankalp Semi conductor, Mr Vivek was Program Manager at at Texas Instruments Inc. (Houston, USA) during 2003 - 2005. and General Manager for Broadband Silicon Technology Center in Texas Instruments India, Bangalore from 2000 - 2003, and a part of TI India Management Team.
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| MR VIVEK PAWAR DELIVERING HIS SPEECH AT KLES IMER, BELGAUM |
In his entire speech, Mr Pawar stressed on the facts which makes a better entrepreneur. He said, "there should be no compromise on values and integrity of a person as an entrepreneur. The values and integrity are the deepest convictions which helps a person to succeed even during his tough times".
He also focussed on team work as a means of collective effort to surge towards success. Mr Pawar insisted of making a small team to start with, but totally engrossed on ethical values, which will not make a good foundation of any comapny but will also help in surviving the tough times in the industry.
Mr Pawar further adds that mentorship also plays an important factor to the success of an entrepreneur as an individual, because its the correct guidance not only in failures but also in success, which matters a lot. He stressed on having mentors in life as he says he was guided by many mentors in life, which proved to be really a boon to his success.
He highlighted a very important point in his speech, that we always do look for successful people, to get inspired and move ahead with a successful life, but there is lot to learn from people who have failed in life. A successful person will always tell, what are the mantras to get success, or rather what we should do for success, but a failed person at the same time will tell what not to do to avoid failure and and get success. As human beings we are always prone to mistakes and we do learn from mistakes, but there are few people who in fact tell us the ways to avoid mistakes and go ahead in life.
Mr Pawar in his enchanting address told about how to create an ecosystem of positivity and success. He stressed on building a positive ecosystem by keep positive people who support you at all times, for these are the people who really uplift you, during bad times and at the time of need.
He further underlined the need of leadership traits, and told that the quality of leadership is very important in life and also in the industry.
Explaining about two kinds of leaders - born leaders and made leaders that we come across many people in life. There are some who have leadership traits right from childhood, they have lead their class, school, colleges, and later have hold leadership positions in their career fields. At the same time there are people who become situational leaders. This genre are the people who act according to the situations and peform good leaderships when and where needed. They may not have taken such responsibilities and always in their life but when needed and may when they feel motivated, they have shown their full worth and and skills of leadership.
He said a very important thing on situational leadership. Situational leadership can prove very vital if it can be tapped and groomed.
He stressed on the following qualities to be brought in as an individual for leadership :
1. Initiatives
2. Communication
3. Vision
Taking a step or initiating a step in any sphere, needs courage and determination. As a leader one needs to take the risk to initiate or rather initialize.
Communication plays an important role, one needs to know what to speak how to speak. Until you communicate, the person in front of you wont need your views. In order to relay one;s views, one should speak, one to communicate.
Vision - Most people do show blank faces when asked how do you feature yourself say 5-10 years from now? A leader always have a vision, he dreams and he visualizes, he makes plan for his upcoming ventures, which keep him motivated always.
Challenge is a factor which Mr Pawar described in a different perspective. Whenever a challenge comes, people do have a sense of insecurity regarding their success or maintaining their level of success, but if challenge is taken in a positive way, it may prove to be the next level of success. he stressed on having people around who can challenge, so that it can motivate us to always keep ahead of the challenger which in fact not only will help us to have a positive impact in our life but at the same time, it will make us a better person on competing levels, from the one that we were yesterday.
Mr Pawar marked some important points, which are needed for companies to succeed :
1. Technical Excellence
2. Commercial Excellence (Business Leadership)
3. Execution Leadership
He further said a very important point,
"Opportunities come everyday, if you are clear about your goals, you can open the required door of the opportunity that knocks your door"
On being asked what traits, he looks for in his partners at work, he encircled the following :
1. Challenging
2. Qualities better than self
3. Complimentary
4. Good Corporate Communication
He says, that he always takes some time on deciding a partner. he believes that he takes time to understand a person personally and professionally to make him a partner.
On the Mentor - Mentee relationship, Mr Pawar lastly added its the duty of the Mentee to make a better ad sustainable relationship with the Mentor. The Mentor is always there to help, but it really depends on the Mentee how he utilizes the time, the opportunity and learn from the Mentor.
These were the few points that i have scribbled on my notebook, at Mr Vivek Pawar's Speech at the KLS IMER. I am very happy to have spent a nice inspiring evening listening, studying and learning from a great enterpreneur from Karnataka. My thanks to TiE Hubli and KLS IMER for making this happen in Belgaum. In course of time, I think we will able to hear from more people like Mr Vivek Pawar, which not only inspires the younger generation but also guides and aligns them towards success and personal growth.
Biswajit Baruah
baruah.biswajit3@gmail.com
