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LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
NEW DELHI
Convocation Addressth
5 April, 2016
‘India-Story and Role of Business Leader :Culture of 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship' and
'Intelligence – Emotional and Social' (IEI)
Prof. Mool Chand SharmaFormer Member, Law Commission of India,
Founder Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Haryana,Vice-Chairman, UGC, Secretary, UIGC,
National Research Advisor, NHRC
� Hon'ble the Chairman of Board of Governors of Lal Bahadur
Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM) Shri Anil Shastriji, other
members of the Board, Director of the Institute Prof. Arya Kumar, Senior
Professor and Advisor, Corporate Interface Shri G.L. Sharma,
distinguished faculty members, diploma awardees and their parents and
other distinguished guests. I feel extremely privileged and honoured this
evening to become the part of the convocation of such a prestigious
institution and deliver the Convocation Address.
� Let me at the outset congratulate Diploma earners and award
winning talented students for their success and convey my best wishes for
the success of their every endeavour to make own lives and life of the
community, society and nation happier and prosperous. It must be a
moment of joy for the proud parents, I congratulate them. My special
compliments are to the faculty members who have stood by and guided
these young sparkling minds to reach this stage.
� We all should be proud of this Institution as it has made its own
mark on the map of Management Education in India and is occupying very
high national ranking. Established in 1995 as a tribute to a great son of
India Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri and steered with deep vision and
foresight so dedicatedly by his son Shri Anil Shastri that the Institution in
such a short span of its existence of about two decades has contributed
phenomenally to the cause of revolutionalising the management
education and has earned path-breaking achievements to its credit that
all needs to be celebrated. We all should be proud of this Institution and
dedicate ourselves to taking it to even greater heights.
'India-Story and Role of Business Leader : Culture of ' Innovat ion' , 'Entrepreneurship ' and 'Intelligence – Emotional and Social' (IEI).
Prof. Mool Chand SharmaFormer Member, Law Commission of India,
Founder Vice-Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, Vice-Chairman, UGC, Secretary, UIGC,
National Research Advisor, NHRC
I am fully conscious that today is the day for celebrating your
success, a day to pay thanks to the teachers, parents and others who
stood by you and not the day to receive sermons and preachings.
However, I equally believe and have been brought up in a culture where
convocations are taken little more than as occasions of joys and
celebrations. This is the day when someone called upon to deliver
convocation is expected to deliberate upon some serious issues and
challenges confronted or likely to be confronted by the society and the
profession you are likely to join. Thus I have decided to devote this
address to the theme : “India Story And Role of Business Leaders :
Culture of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Intelligence – Emotional
and Social (IEI).” However, before I take up the theme let me share with
you some of the lessons that time has taught me in life, which if found
relevant may be relied upon and if not be dismissed with contempt they
deserve.
I The first lesson I have learnt in my life is to have dreams and
dreams which are big. Never stop dreaming. No doubt many people
would wonder whether having unrealistic dreams is foolish but my reply to
this is that dreams by themselves can never be realistic or safe and if they
are, they would not be dreams. Of course I do agree that one must have
strategies to execute dreams and that is where education has a big role.
One must slog and work hard with commitment and dedication to
transform dreams into reality but dreams must come first. What saddens
me most when young bright people getting disillusioned by initial few
setbacks and turning cynical and that is when dreams are most needed.
Not when everything is going right, but when just about everything is going
wrong. It requires courage to keep dreaming and I urge upon you to
solicit and collect that courage to dream and dream big if future is to
belong to you.
The second lesson I learnt in my life is to build and have self-
confidence. Of course I do not mean arrogance or obsession with self.
Self-confidence comes from a positive attitude even in adverse situation
rather more in such situation. Building self-confidence requires
assuming responsibility for one's mistake and sharing credit with
others.
I also learnt in my life that no one bats a century every time.
Life has many challenges – one wins some and loses some. One must
enjoy winning but at the same time not let it go to the head. The moment it
does, one is already on one's fall. The most important is that when one
does encounter failure on the way, one needs to treat the failure as a
natural phenomenon. There is no need to beat oneself for it or anyone
else for the matter. One should accept it and look at one's own share in the
problem, learn from it and move on. The most important thing is, when
one loses one need not giveup the lesson. Right from my childhood I learnt the importance of humility and
gratefulness. Most of us when we achieve something or succeed in
achieving our objectives, get obsessed with the belief that this success is
all due to our own capabilities and efforts without realizing, in how many
ways and how many people might have contributed directly or indirectly in
the process of attaining that success. We forget that our parents, our
teachers, our seniors, our friends and society in general have done so
much for us to come to that stage that we can never repay. Many times
those who disagree or differ with us also need to be thanked as they too
have contributed by making us rethinking and reassessing our own
position to either amend it or getting more confirmed of its veracity. To be
thankful and to express the feeling of gratitude must be the essential
and integral part of any educational experience.
I learnt hard way that there is no substitute to hard work and
perseverance. It is through combination of these two that one can make
the mark, one can bring the change, one can create and one can alter the
course, may lay the foundation for a new path, and a different approach
and ways of thinking on issues of seminal importance. In our own
country we have Gandhiji to follow who refused to be budged by any
amount of adversity, followed his path and brought the freedom. Hard
work and perseverance of one's goals with integrity is the only way
to grow.
The last lesson that I would like to share with you is value of
understanding, appreciating and accommodating others' view point
even if with different perception. In fact it is this attitude that reflects
respect for rule of law, human rights, democracy and pluralism – so
crucial for peaceful co-existence.
I know by now I have already tired you out but please allow me
the liberty to say few words about today's theme. So coming to the theme
let me begin by noting that it has been acknowledged all over (an
acknowledgment that is hard to contest) that the corporate and business
organizations yield huge power, potential and influence on policy making
effecting the life of humans globally regionally and nationally. Seen this
way the role of the leaders and managers of businesses and corporate
assume greater importance, relevance and complexities. Consequently
what becomes of crucial significance is to find as to what kind of managers
and leaders do society needs to promote, run and manage such
organizations and bring prosperity to the organization and to society.
What competencies be in terms of sensitivities, skills, training and above
all in terms of ethics, values and humanism do these leaders require to
possess and what role can institutions imparting education in
management like Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management can
play in this regard is a challenge as well as opportunity. It is in this context
and after lot of self deliberations that I decided to make an attempt in
sharing some of my reflections about three great attributes amongst
others which a successful business leader and manager must imbibe.
Hence, what follows is today's convocation Address : 'India-Story and
Role of Business Leader : Culture of 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship'
and 'Intelligence – Emotional and Social' (IEI).
IIToday's World of Business : We begin by making few general observations about business
environment of today. One most important aspect of today's business
world is that it has entered into a new era of disruptions that does not own
any asset but own the customers. It is the gatekeepers who are winning
the game now with their platforms. From automobiles to telecom to retail,
technology – led upstarts are gradually edging out traditional business
models. Disruptions caused by Whatsapp, Skype, Uber and Apple are
obvious instances of such development. Just to have a glance at the path
breaking developments occurring due to disruptions in the business
world, let us take Whatsapp as an example. Whatsapp is offering calls to
a billion active users. It already carries 30 billion messages a day, against
20 billion done by all telecom operators put together. What is of
significance is that Whatsapp neither owns any telecom network and nor
has it sunk in billions into acquiring spectrum assets; it runs its entire
business with just 40 engines. Please note Airbnb is the largest hotel
chain in the world, without owning a single hotel room and Amazon is well
ahead of BestBuy and Wallmart in terms of transactions.
Again with the advent of technology, immediate payment service
(IMPS) has surpassed money orders. In 2014-15, around Rs.58,000
crore was transferred through IMPS, whereas Rs.12000 crores was
routed through money orders. Paytm, set up in 2010 did more purchase
transactions, 36 million than HDFC Bank (30 million). The Latter number
includes credit and debt transactions at point of sale in 2015. IMPS is set
to overtake sales through cards as well. This trend is evident in media as
well. Google takes in more advertising revenue than the entire US print
media (in dollars). In India the combined circulation of top 10 newspapers
is 24 million whereas Daily Hunt, a news application has 22 million active
monthly users.
It is believed that the massive disruption taking place across
industries is mainly the result of working of combination of economic
growth, technology and speed of change. Such disruption has been
fuelled by the enormously rising spirit of 'entrepreneurship' and
'innovation' amongst the youth all over. All this has led to a unique world of
great opportunities and possibilities. No doubt the massive scale of
disruption occurring across industries make us feel excited, but
sometimes it terrifies also. A good business leader must be in a position to
lead as well as meet the challenges of disruptions. Thus if advent of
technology especially smartphone becomes ubiquitous and lays down
the foundation of this new world, no less important are the cornerstones of
this new world which are constituted by the spirit of 'entrepreneurship' and
'innovation' clubbed with what is described as 'social-intelligence/social-
emotions' which the business leaders and managers are expected to
represent in running their organisations. It is this unique combination of
Entrepreneurship, 'Innovation', 'Entrepreneurship' and Intelligence-
emotional and Social (IEI) has made Google what Google is today.
IIIEntrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is one of the important segments of economic
growth of both developed and developing economies. The experience of
industrialized countries like the United States of America, Germany,
Japan and the United Kingdom can be authentically and specially cited in
support of this claim.
Peter Drucker defines an entrepreneur as one, who always
searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they
exploit change as an opportunity for different business or service.
In order to establish a successful business venture the
entrepreneurial leader must have a dream and work against all obstacles
to achieve it.
The Encyclopedia Britannica considers an entrepreneur as “an
individual who bears the risk of operating a business in the face of
uncertainty about the future conditions”.
Joseph Schututer argues that the rate of growth in an economy
depends to a great extent on the activities of entrepreneurs, and has
probably put greater emphasis on the entrepreneurial function than any
other economist.
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. It
has a knowledge base. Knowledge in entrepreneurship is a means to an
end.
An entrepreneur is a visionary and is responsible for setting up a
business or an enterprise with outstanding leadership qualities, initiative,
skills for innovation and a burning desire for high achievements. It has
been observed that entrepreneurs venture into new green field projects
that actually create wealth, opens up employment opportunities and
foster other sectors. Entrepreneurs are catalytic agents of change and
contribute to the overall development of the society. Entrepreneurial
competence makes a substantial difference in the rate of economic
growth, especially in India where state and private entrepreneurship co-
exist. The need for broad-based entrepreneurial class in India arises
from the need to speed up the process of activating the factors of
production leading to a higher rate of economic growth, dispersal of
economic activities, development of backward and tribal areas, creation
of employment opportunities, improvement in the standard of living of
weaker section of the society and involvements of all sections of society in
the process of growth.
Entrepreneurship is often considered the backbone of economic
development empirical researchers indicate the contribution of
entrepreneurship to economic development is significant, especially in
the area of employment creation.
Today Google rightfully can boost of that as a service it has
become indispensable to peoples interactions on line. And as a business
worth $ 400 billion its success has been breathtaking. This scale of
achievement is largely the result of vision and spirit of innovation and
entrepreneurship its leadership brought. In terms of management,
Google has set up radically different ways of organizing itself from those
of traditional business. Others may draw lessons and adapt these
methods of Google as it suits them.
In the context of today's address which is more focused on the
qualities a business leaders and manager need to represent, it may be
relevant to say little more about approach adopted by Google's
leadership and whether some lessons or messages be drawn from such
approach? One important attribute of Google's approach has been that of
'thinking extremely big' or what is called in the language of Silicon Valley
“moon shot thinking”. The management there believes in wresting
employees from seeking 10% improvement and towards finding one that
is “IOX” (that is, ten times better). Such an approach requires the
employees to do things differently and innovatively. It requires them to go
for adaptation of extremely new ways. The company's leadership is
conscious that most of these “IOX” attempts will fail but that is accepted.
They believe in the philosophy of 'fail trump'. It is believed there is Google
that the way people can learn from failure and more on, perhaps turning
some aspects of the set back to lay the foundation for new success. It is
believed that failure is the cost for success. In this respect “learning
trumps” knowing, since nobody can foresee the failure.Another important attribute of Google's approach is its faith in
“empowering its employees”. Bosses and leaders at all firms talk of this,
but it is said that Googles takes it to heart. It is pointed out by admirers of
Googles approach that it has devised systems to enable good ideas from
any quarter to get an airing. They also cite that many of Google's biggest
products and features (like Gmail) have emerged from this and also from
its policy that lets staff work on pet projects for 20% of their time. No doubt
such a culture places huge emphasis and premium on the quality of
employees and thus while engaging employees it takes heavy inputs in
the form of vetting from cross sections of stakeholders and importantly
from academics. This helps eliminate the biases in hiring and
encourages the staff to think as a team; new hires owe their allegiance to
their peers, not only their superiors. Another important aspect of Google's
approach consists in its policy to enfranchise its employees. As it
believes that if employees feel stymied, they will simply take their
creativity and ambition elsewhere.
Not doubting that most of above features of Google's approaches
and methods can be usefully incorporated by different business
organizations in our system, however, while recommending so we remain
mindful that such an approach has its own context and limitations
especially on realizing that many of its innovative approaches best apply
to managing teams of aces in lucrative fast growing markets, not to
overseeing a wide range of talent in low-margin business – the life of most
managers.
It is true that emphasize and whether it is government of a nation
or success of a business enterprise, leadership more often than not is the
differentiator. It is the confidence behind an idea and the drive to make the
idea reality is what sets a true leader apart. A good leader empowers and
invests in people and has the ability to take calculated risks. More
importantly a good leader is also hungry to learn and improve and does
not blame other for failures. A leader is one who wants to 'face the fear'
and not avoid or bypass. It is true that when one can show that it can be
done then one's team takes it to next level. In short, a good leader needs
to imbibe in her/him spirit of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social-
intelligence/emotions – the theme of this Address.
We are in need of such leaders who have vision, courage to
innovate and possess quality of being committed entrepreneur. These
leaders should be purpose-driven and value-led to help us realize the
huge potential that India's youth and Indian Corporate and business world
offers.
IVInnovation : Emphasizing the virtue and significance of 'innovation' for a
business leader the Hon'ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee
recently while hosting a Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhawan
pointed out: “Innovation is the key to progress and prosperity”. He further
said that it is culture comprising 'innovation' and entrepreneurship' that
promotes conversion of knowledge into social good and economic
wealth. Objective of attaining higher economic growth is directly
connected to culture of 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship'. The
President thought that such culture does not only promote economic
growth and prosperity but goes much beyond when he said that 'there
were many needs that public, private and Civil Society institutions had not
been able to meet fully. Such needs are begging for solutions in the hands
of business and corporate leaders who are innovative and visionary
entrepreneurs. He expressed his disappointment noting that though in
fact there is no dearth of talent and desire amongst youth contribute and
give impetus to 'India Story' but unfortunately either we are missing to take
advantage of this vast potential or wasting it by putting that talent into
large, established firms and in the process blunting their spirit and desire
of 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship' they are possessing and nurturing.
Such an approach in view of Ranjan Anandam – a Corporate leader of
repute 'is okay as far as those firms flourish, but this is not what India
needs for the long term. In his assessment (and we agree) that what India
needs over the next decade are thousands of new companies that will
focus on developing and launching products and services need to tap the
massive opportunities in India and across the world.
It is true that some of our young talent wants to set up new
business. Say for example some of them want to (and have enough
potential to do so) make comedy outside of the bollywood system, like
viral fever, the fastest growing comedy channel on Youtube by four IIT
engineers. Some of them wants to start a new business like Chumbak, a
startup that makes amazing souvenirs with Indian designs. Chumbak
started with fridge magnets and now has a range of products they sell
globally. No doubt and without in any manner minimizing the importance,
place and contribution that big conglomerates of business and industry
has made to 'India Story', there is need for business and corporate
leaders especially the young amongst them to muster the vision and
courage to plant the seeds of the next big business. There is need for
them to show the ability, courage and faith in 'experiment'. Many of us
want to do so but are afraid. It is fear to fail or to take risk that comes in the
way of many young who are talented and have ideas. But our need to
remind oneself perpetually that every failure leads to success of instead of
accusing someone else for the failure, lessons are learnt. According to
estimates as Rajan has pointed out that, Asia, as a region had the highest
fear of being an entrepreneur and India is no different from anywhere else.
Almost 40% of potential entrepreneurs in India do not set up their
business because they are worried about failure. Significantly in Sub-
Saharan Africa only 20% of the people surveyed by the study were afraid
to fail. Fear makes it very easy choice not to be an entrepreneur – a fact
that needs to be confronted and changed. It should give way to young
business leaders to feel excited and attracted with the idea of innovation
and 'new business'. The fact that we have several billion dollar startups in
India including Info Edge, MakeMyTrip, Justdial, flipkart and inMobi are
testament to the potential of Indian spirit of entrepreneurship. If the
founders of these companies had been afraid of failure or running the risk
of experimenting, there would not have emerged these amazing success
stories. It has rightly been said that price of failure has never been smaller
and Indian business and Corporate would need to accept that failures is
the necessary price for success. This is something that institutions like
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM) need to make
imparting such training an essential and integral part of learning
experience. Such learning would help evolve a culture where people are
encouraged to tackle large problems and take big bets.
It is heartening to note that the government has recognized the
youth potential and to encourage the spirit of 'entrepreneurship' and
'innovation', it has recently announced various policy measures aiming at
providing an encouraging start-up eco system. It has thus announced a
bouquet of initiatives such as making tax-free the profits of these fledging
units for three years, Rs.10000 crore of government funding over four
years, no visits by labour inspectors for three years and quicker and
subsidized patent clearances. The “Startup India, Standup India” action
plan, promises a new mobile app, to enable start-ups to register
themselves within a day and apply for clearances online, and easier exists
for failed ventures with a provision for winding them up within 90 days.
Also the decade 2010-20 has been declared in India as the “Decade of
Innovation”. The country has formulated a science, technology and
innovation policy, aimed at an innovation-led development. These are all
welcome developments, but what is more important is to encourage and
recognize grassroots innovations in the hands of manager who are willing
to take risk and face failure so long as they are open to learn from failure.
The bottom-line of what has been said in the foregoing is to invite attention
and emphasize that India's economic growth, and its success in meeting
the rising challenges of globally competitive market for the benefit of
Common Indian, it is necessary for corporate and business organizations
and their leaders to imbibe the spirit of 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship'
and create thousands of companies aimed at meeting needs and
demands right from grass-root to national to global levels.
VIntelligence – Emotional and Social : Let us now briefly discuss the importance of 'emotional and social
intelligence' in the making of an effective and performing business leader.
Apart possessing attributes like : 'innovation' and 'entrepreneurship' to
lead, motivate and inspire members of her/his team for achieving for
achieving purposeful results, it is crucial that the leader possess store of
'emotional and social intelligence'. Lack of such intelligence in leader
would not only harm the business interests and the organization and team
members getting disillusioned and frustrated but would also impair the
credibility of the leader.
Knowledge of one's own style of interaction, and ability to handle
the almost subversive notion of emotion in the workplace, enhances an
individual's self-awareness and self-concept, the outcome of which is
enhanced performance.
The first and the most fundamental step for acquiring 'emotional
and social-intelligence' is to make an honest, objective and unbiased
assessment of one's own strengths and weaknesses and to devise
strategies to sharpen and making optimal use of strengths but at the same
time collect the courage, confidence and determination to fight
weaknesses. To fight weaknesses, it is important to get motivation and
inspiration from success stories and experiences of others. It is crucial to
understand that being 'emotional' and having 'emotional and social-
intelligence' are two different traits. While the former represents
weakness a leader suffers from and later is the virtue that leader
possesses to the advantage of the organization as well as oneself. It is
widely shared that knowledge of one's own style of interaction and ability
to handle the almost subversive notion of emotion in the workplace,
enhances an individual's self-awareness and self-concept, the outcome
of what is enhanced performance.
Findings from various researches help explain why some people
function better than others, assume positions of leadership and even
volunteer for highly stressful and potentially dangerous tasks at times,
whereas others are unable to emotionally and socially deal with daily
demands in a more intelligent and effective manner. Although the terms
'emotional and social-intelligence' was coined in 1966 by Leuner, the
general concept was fast defined by Thorndike in 1920 and the construct
itself was first studied by Darwin as early as 1837. From Darwin to
present, most descriptions of this construct have included one or more of
the following key components : (a) the ability to understand and express
oneself; (b) the ability to understand others and relate with them; (c) the
ability to manage and control emotions; (d) the ability to manage change,
adapt, and solve problems of personal and interpersonal nature; and (e)
the ability to generate positive mood and to be self-motivated. Bar-on's
definition of this construct states that emotional and social intelligence is a
cross-section of inter-related emotional and social competencies that
determine how effectively we understand and express ourselves,
understand others and relate with them, and cope with daily demands and
pressures.
“Feelings are facts”. Too often we get caught up in the facts of our
businesses and fail to appreciate what matters most to employees as well
as customers. One of the most intriguing factors that can affect
customers' and employees' perceptions is their emotions. Adam Smith,
the father of modern capitalism, had argued that there exists a dual-
process system that guide human behavior. In his book “The Wealth of
Nations” he states that human behavior results from the struggle between
two opposing forces; the 'rational' man and the 'passionate' man. Human
behavior at work has gained in importance since it affects decision-
making and hence performance of employees. Every company has a
largely untapped, enormous potential from improvement in employee
productivity and the attain this they must first improve their understanding
of how emotional economy works in their company.
What is needed on the part of business leader is to accept human
nature and then use it to manage employees, motivate them, accelerate
their development and engage customer's emotions. Motivational traits
of individual employees are predictable and this holds the key to superior
performance. The three vital signs which keep an organization healthy
are employee relationships, customer relationships and financial vitality.
Findings from recent research into human performance indicate that
without access to objective, external feedback on their performance,
people are not good at evaluating it on their own. They underestimate
their own competence and this prevents them from being able to improve
performance. It is increasingly being accepted that there is a linkage
between competencies related to the job one performs and the emotional
competencies which one is endowed with. There is need to draw equal
attention to building the emotional competencies in the leader as well as
team members for organization to progress and much ahead
purposefully.
VI I am conscious of putting your patience to test for long and there is
need to stop. However, before concluding I will lay special emphasis if we
aspire to be an effective business leader to realize, what Robin Sharma in
his book, The Leader who had no title says that 'each one of us is born
genius'. There exists natural leadership power within each one of us,
however, sadly that potential is dormant and little used by the vast majority
of us. Each one of us need to activate this huge dormant leadership that is
residing in us. When this potential remains unutilized it turns into pain,
however when each one of us realizes that we have power to make an
awesome difference in the world by unleashing our genius and assuming
our greatness, humanity will evolve into a level of consciousness.
The basic truth is that there is only one way a business can win in
the new world of business today. That one way is to grow and develop the
leadership talent of every single person throughout the organization
faster than their competition.
The only way to avoid getting eaten alive is for companies to
strengthen the capacities of employees at every level to lead in everything
they do. Everyone must see themselves as part of the leadership team. In short what we are emphasizing is that one should understand
that irrespective of what one does within organization or what position one
holds and what the current circumstances of one's life are, we all should
remember that each one of us have natural leadership power within us
and that you can live your life with true excellence no matter where
circumstances plant you. What one requires to know how to claim that
incredible deep rooted power that lies within you and to make difference in
not only your life but also in the world around you.
Before closing let me say a big thanks to the entire LBSIM
fraternity for inviting and making me part of today's convocation
ceremony. I remain largely grateful for this invitation to the Chairman of
the Board of Governors Shri Anil Shastri ji for his dedication, commitment
and conviction in the growth and progress of the institution. The way he
has pursued the vision, humility, sensitivity and social causes shown by
Shri Late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri is exemplary. I am also
thankful to other Members of the Board of Governors and to the Director
Prof Arya Kumar. I have no words to express my thanks to Prof. G.L.
Sharma who has always shown great affection and warmth towards me.
Let me once again congratulate and extend my best of best wishes to
awardees of Diploma and to their parents and relatives.
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