fast tracked by road less travelled

(continuation)

a brief peek into my future from my new director was quite impressive as the company had some high aspirations, and to a point, quite intimidating as it's surpassing many other illustrious people in the company, including my mentor (who is facing other issues)

looking back, i was wondering if this was a result of my days in AIESEC? I have always theroreticized that my experience in @ will be invaluable in management ... but I doubted these ever since I joined HP ... (they convinced me that idealistic & theoretical days were over the day I stepped out of @). So, I quickly shed my old style of being too idealistic and started to 'grow' my hard & pushy character which has served me well in HP & now Marcus Evans ... in fact, it's quite good to be able to hold people accountable for non-performance AND most of all, punish them (which as not possible in a voluntary org. such as @)

But now, the skills in manouvering around people (on the political side) have come of age, especially when in management position ...

it just strikes me that my theory did come right, especially in taking the road less travelled ... by doing my work in @, by leaving my comfort zone ...

so at this point, I can say that so far in my early start to career, it was indeed worth the risk to take an unconventional route to learning ...

:)