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Q&A: Jan
P. Oosterveld
Meet a Dutch engineer who describes his company as "too old, too
male and too Dutch". This is Jan P. Oosterveld, 59, Member, Group
Management Committee & CEO (Asia Pacific), Royal Philips Electronics,
a $31.8-billion company going through tough times. His mission is
to turn Philips market agile and global in outlook.
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Bio-dynamic
Tea Estate
Is there a way to rejuvenate tea consumption? Rajah Banerjee, the
idiosyncratic owner of the 1,500-acre Makai Bari tea estate, among
India's largest, thinks he has the answer to the industry's woes:
value-added tea. 'Bio-dynamic' tea, to use his phrase. Here's a look
at some of his organic and flavoured tea experiments.
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| Being A Leader |
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| Jayant Kochhar,
MD, Amoretto Retail |
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 Leadership
is about having a vision. About having a dream that a leader does
not let go of even under dire circumstances. But having a vision
alone is not enough. A leader must also have the ability to stay
on target. Having a fixed goal along with the perseverance to attain
it despite all odds and withing the set time, is the defining trait
of a true leader. Only a leader fully consumed by a vision, is able
to press into the unknown and actually innovate. Innovation is conceiving
a wonderful idea and translating it into the right action. Again,
it is not enough for the idea to be wonderful; it must be practical
enough, along with being spectacular. And a true leader has the
ability to materialise this idea into reality with his continued
efforts towards the right direction. Leaders are expected to show
their teams the way, to act as guides, to be the exemplar of what
the business is all about.
Yet, people, vision, innovation and efforts
do not complete the recipe if a leader does not have the skill to
communicate. Communication is the ability to effectively introduce
the unknown to the unintroduced, to make the follower believe that
something is possible. It is the transfer of the spirit, the transfer
of belief. A true leader brokers hope-both internally against fears
and doubts, and externally against tasks that seem impossible. A
true leader shows his team the right direction, along with motivating
it to achieve the set target.
Leaders do things they believe in, even though
they may have their doubts about the way they could be materialised.
Leaders are the only ones who realise that there is no map to describe,
only an indelible sense of what the path to the destination looks
like.
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