Kindness is A Choice

Discussing leadership, we often overlook kindness, focusing more on power and wealth. Yet in reality, the leaders who leave a lasting impact are the ones who choose humanity over dominance. If you want to be remembered well, kindness is a choice for you to make. People often have this notion that harshness is a necessary ingredient for success. I disagree. […]

Leading from Where You Are

When we were building Areca, a real-time billing engine for Turk Telekom, we were a small team competing against giants like Amdocs. They had the brand recognition, the scale, and the legacy contracts. We had one shot to prove ourselves. In that environment, titles were irrelevant; in fact, we technically didn’t have them. What mattered was execution. If something failed, […]