R GOPALAKRISHNAN
During his days in Hindustan
Unilever, R Gopalakrishnan was a regular speaker at the company’s training
centre and that’s where the love for sharing experiences was born. “It’s the
speaking that led to the writing,” he says. “I wrote management books because
that was all I knew." While he’s a full-time director at Tata Sons,
Gopalakrishnan manages to carve out enough time for his first love, speaking.
In India, he’s a regular at b-schools as well as lectures organised by
professional bodies like the CII or AIMA, as well as the Tata Management and
Training Centre. Gopalakrishnan believes people reading books by professional
managers don’t expect research but experiences and a practical perspective. The
idea is to leave the reader with stories, and not a check list of the top five
things he should to do become an effective manager. “You have to touch the
brain of the reader such that it activates something which will be useful
later….not instructions but an inductive idea,” he says.
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