Students at SJMSOM-IIT Bombay Learn to be Real Leaders at Leadership Lecture Series

Students at SJMSOM-IIT Bombay Learn to be Real Leaders at Leadership Lecture Series

The telecom tycoon Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel Limited, also told the students about how he had started from scratch and has risen to the heights today. He told how innovative thinking and believing in one's thoughts brought him a long way, and made him stand apart in the crowd.

Mr. Narayan Vaghul, Chairman, ICICI Bank, with 50 years of experience in the Financial Sector can easily be termed as the Bheeshma Pitamah of the Banking and Financial Services Industry. Even with a host of achievements under his cap, he enthralled the audience with his simplicity and words of wisdom. According to Mr. Vaghul, leadership and vision is about foreseeing the future before others. He gave examples of people like Sunil Mittal who saw the future so clearly a decade ago.

Mr. Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman, Godrej & Boyce Co. Ltd., attributed his inheritance for giving him an opportunity to lead a mammoth organization like Godrej & Boyce. Recollecting his early days, he remarked that he had learned a lot from his father and that too in a very interesting way. According to him, theoretical learning must always be coupled with practical insights, either through projects or industrial trips, to render learning process effective.

But the awe-inspiring remark came from Ms. Kiran Bedi, IPS, Director General, Bureau of Police Research & Training. Within five minutes of the session, the audience had got mesmerized. She unfolded a very different aspect needed for rising up the ladder. She said that though focus towards goal is needed, it shouldn't be overdone to the extent that we forget to enjoy. In the din and bustle of the world and our race to reach the top, we should give some time to ourselves always, to know where we stand, where we are going and how right it is for us.

Besides the insight that the series gave the students into how a leader emerges from the troughs of life, the biggest learning that came through was that a leader is one who never loses hope, and fights it out till the end. And more than any books and theories, it is the zeal within, the power to think beyond and the spirit to make it pursue it in all circumstances, what carves the real niche for a leader.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Rachit R. Mehrotra,
PR Team Member,
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay.

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