Ravi Venkatesan

“Passion must emanate from a desire to create something bigger than oneself, one’s career, and short-term business results—what academics call higher ambition.2 The ambition can simply be to create a wonderful workplace that unleashes human spirit and the potential of employees, to become the best factory in India, or to solve tough societal problems through innovation. Such ambition connects the day-to-day activities of employees with a higher purpose that”
― Ravi Venkatesan, Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere

“CEO commitment is the starting point. In India, winning requires a very different business leader—an entrepreneurial general manager rather than a salesperson and, ideally, a senior and trusted insider with credibility and influence. It requires a different organizational structure or model, where India is managed like a geographic profit center, with the ability to make important operating decisions without enormous negotiations and persuasion. It needs a willingness to make long-term investments in developing capabilities on the ground and the willingness to sustain these through the inevitable vicissitudes. Therefore, escaping the midway trap requires the commitment of the entire leadership of the company to pull multiple levers before the whole organization flips to a new high-growth trajectory.”
― Ravi Venkatesan, Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere