Session on aLeadership that transcends Culturesa held at JBIMS

Mr. Chaturvedi started with the importance that leadership plays especially in today’s corporate world. Stressing on the fact that managers and leaders who can be successful anywhere in the world are the need of the hour, he said that his experiences across borders have taught him that there are more commonalities than differences between people. An appreciation of these commonalities is what makes leaders successful and also helps them groom leadership and retain it. As he went on he displayed a pyramid that showed the characteristics of globally capable managers. These he said are functional mastery, proactive and knowledge based leadership and global communication. Stressing on global communication, he said that it is not just the ability to speak a language but communicate with people of varied cultures.

Then he went on to the next part which was titled ‘My Beliefs’. He started off with stressing on the point that innovation is an outcome and it thrives when people have fun and fulfillment through work and that knowledge based leadership as opposed to hierarchy based leadership is the key to achieving this. An important belief which he said should be practiced is focusing on outcomes and rewarding results.

The next belief that he put forth was that change is opportunity saying that leading change, learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, challenging paradigms and breaking down myths and important qualities that global leaders should posses. Conflicts are a part of leadership and he acknowledged this fact. An important point that he said he has learnt through experience is building a diverse, local organization for sustainable growth of business. The emphasis thus should be on Promoting diversity and developing local talent. After this, he introduced the audience to the knowledge based leadership model and talked about its various aspects. With this he ended his presentation and threw the floor open for questions.

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