When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana MurthyRead
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
Interpretation
A successful company must constantly develop new leaders to ensure its longevity.
This quote emphasizes that for a company to thrive over the long term, it needs not just to sustain operations, but to continuously foster leadership talent within its ranks. The ability to cultivate new leaders is essential for the growth and adaptability of the organization in an ever-changing business environment.
In practice
During a company seminar, to highlight the importance of leadership development.
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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