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On the lighter side of things, we ask the industry-
experts what makes them tick…
Glyn Yates, Regional Director,
Axios Systems Middle East
What would you describe as your
most memorable achievement?
Personally nothing competes with creating happy children as an
achievement. In professional terms my greatest achievement
is with the achievement of others, those that I worked with and
who have gone on to bigger and brighter things, both in IT and
other fields. Every now and then I will have one of my old teams
send a kind reminder of our time together and how they are still
successfully employing the methodologies from the coaching/
mentoring and daily interaction we had.
What
do you think will be the hot
technology talking point with be of
2017-2018?
There are a few, from AR and VR to robot workforce automation,
to even AI, however I still think the IoT topic has a long hype
curve to transition, especially with understanding meaningful
What made think of a career in
real-life applications and how to monetise that from a value
technology?
proposition perspective, taking it from niche into mainstream.
With an honours in Chemical Engineer I was due to enter the O&G Within Service Management, the ability to integrate with leading
space, however as I was completing University there was a cyclical edge technology stacks to automate end to end service delivery
trough for the Oil market, so at 21 I started working for a regional throughout the enterprise is critical to streamlining operating costs
while improving auditability and customer/citizen satisfaction.
company in the UK selling photocopiers and fax machines under
the tutelage of a proper old-school hard-nosed Sales Director,
How do you deal with stress and
who I thank to this day. A few roles and many years later I really
enjoy evangelising about the enablement of business through
unwind outside the office?
technology.
To unwind I have to physically hide my phone, and my daughter
What style of management
is the greatest advocate of that, so my time with my family is very
precious and welcome. Other than that I try to hack around a golf
philosophy do you employ with
course every now and then, attend most of the concerts in Dubai
your current position?
and I follow a lot of live sport.
That’s a difficult one to pigeon-hole, as you need to have many
If you could go back and change a
management styles in many situations, however as an overriding
core philosophy I would have to say I reinforce the concept of
career decision, what would it be?
legacy – that being in 10/15/20 years, if you were to look back on
There has been no role that I would change, as I’ve learnt from
yourself today, how would you want your family, your company,
the good and bad of each one, however I would go back and
your customers and your market to remember you as, and how
does that differ from how you are perceived today…then work on address my expectations of a few of the people I have worked with
the gaps. I use mantra’s like ‘do the right things, at the right times over the last 25 years – those that I expected too little from and
to the right people for the right reasons’ which I affectionately call those that I expected too much, which would have culminated in
The Lost Rights, and ‘succeed in spite of, don’t fail because of…’. better outcomes for both persons. Thankfully I’m older and a wiser
now, but still open to learning everyday.
Make things simple and execute well.
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