On Sept 1st I complete 32 years in top notch industries starting as Asst Engineer grew into Engineering Executive, Consultant Designer, R&D Head, Chief of Operations and R&D (Dr V Krishna Murthy trustee of RGF), then as Product Manager, System Architect, and now as ED.
Lessons

Someone (irrespective of sector) if he is too busy for everything, all the time, it means either he doesn't know his job or doesn't know to manage it.

I come across so many who hide behind this "I am too busy" from their reportees, from their peers and superiors. If you are a manager find a balance or bosses will have to find some balanced person. In days of mobile phones, you cannot have pagers.

What went wrong with much touted Technical advantage #Bengaluru and #Karnataka has to be discussed sooner than later to save the state and #Bengaluru. #IamTooBusy or #MineIsBest adamance costed us after all the gains we made

With tonnes of experience in IT system/solution architecting, mobile app practice - Both from hands-on development experience too, not just looking over shoulders of developer) architecting was the key fact that did the damage. It cannot be a hobby project when dealing with data

It is not just passion, enthusiasm, hard-working or commitment (of which we never had a dearth, it has a lot to do with Competence too, without which all the others are pointless. (Vice versa is true too. But starting point is COMPETENCE)

A bunch of enthusiasts have done a thread bare analysis of some Apps that were used (its tremendous success earlier and its miserable failure once the numbers ramped). Sadly our penchant to investing more to dig shallow wells, instead of one deep productive well was our bane

#MineIsBiggest adamance is what let go of a multitude of options provided to mankind, free of cost. Why Government has to spend on "Learnin Curve" of Private sector was the line. Seriously? On something that is so specific to public health & pandemic & offered for free?

Net result, to save oneself, our City, the IT Capital took a beating both in terms of image and also in terms of public health - Evident in the bulletins released today - opaque contents and numbers that has spiked.

Oh BTW! I also was a passionate teacher of Mechatronic/Electronics/Control Systems, Oh yes! going by the endorsement of my students and where they are today, was Competent too. Was heading the oldest Skill Development Institution of India.

Haalooralli Ulidavane Raaja... goes an old saying. We're no where near haalooru yet. Is it Insecurity when not once, twice, four times you don't turn up for a meeting to discuss ( #IamBusy you know :-) without a care for time of people whose billable is 40 times > the hero's