Course Name
Assignment Title
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: Mastering Verbal Communication
: Individual Assignment - 3 (Video Assignment)
:
Ritesh Bennabhaktula
62610711
Video Transcript
There is a team at a bank in Egypt that has been doing the same thing the same way
for years. Every morning they open their Excel and run their numbers. They move
carefully because in their world a li le real mistake is a lot of money. I walked into that
room as the person who was supposed to build them something be er and honestly
they were not convinced I could. The part that had led me to that room was not
straigh orward. I started my career building actual buildings (the one with concrete
and steel), then I moved into fintech, building products instead. The medium had
changed but the obsession with building did not. What did change for a while was me.
I did let a quiet fear take over that I wasn't good enough or visible enough. I stopped
pu ng my hand up. I lost the thing that had always defined me, that hunger to build.
It was only when I found my way back to that period that I understood what I actually
wanted and why. Back to Egypt I was building a bond selec on module from scratch.
My first ins nct was not to just start designing; it was to sit with that team. I watched
them work and I learned exactly where Excel was holding them together but also
holding them back. They were cau ous at first; it took demo a er demo to earn their
trust. I didn't rush; I stayed close and when my product shipped I watched that
methodological team move off the spreadsheets and onto something I had built. One
of them had actually found a feature that they hadn't expected and the face
expression did state it was genuine delight. That was the first me I had felt that I knew
where I wanted to be and I wanted to be close to the users and I want to make real
decisions about what gets built and see its impact. Here is what I want to change,
coming into the business world. I want to be that kind of builder who actually cares
about the product and how it is impac ng a real person's life. I want to bring that
ins nct into every team I work with and build environments where people like me,
who lead a li le bit more me to find their confidence, actually have a path forward.
I know what it feels like when that environment doesn't exist and I know the power of
when it does. That room in Egypt was the second kind; it is where I found my way back
and I strive to build confidence in people, in moving into rooms like that.
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