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The Magic of CLS
By Dhaval Valia
 May is the busiest time in the year for our team, what with the annual CRN Leadership Summit scheduled in this month.
It’s also the most fulfilling and rewarding time for the entire team. Meeting India’s best channel minds presents a great opportunity to gain invaluable insights and knowledge.
Besides, it’s a great learning experience, particularly for our young reporters. They grow wiser by a couple of years just by attending the three-day summit.
Our endeavor has always been to provide a platform for networking and knowledge-sharing at CLS, but what amazes me the most is that everyone in IT channels, no matter of what age or position, has a great hunger for new ideas and knowledge.
It’s great to see Allied’s Nitin Shah taking notes from the presentation by Team’s Ranjan Chopra, or Valuepoint’s R S Shanbhag diligently jotting down key points from every slide presented at the workshop.
Kinfotech’s Prabhakar Kini told me that he is planning to retire from active operations by next year, yet he was there throughout the three days sitting at one table soaking in all he could.
The other incredible thing is the willingness and openness with which Ideas@Work speakers share the details of their companies’ innovative systems and practices with peers with whom they often compete for business. Sharing with your competitors ideas and innovations which are core to your operations and have probably taken you years to optimize is almost inconceivable—and yet it actually happens.
So after every CLS, when partners thank us for a job well done, I wonder if it is we who should express our gratitude to each partner for giving us the privilege to facilitate a forum like CLS.
We should. So let me say it.
Thank you. |