In an industry where zero-defect is par for the course, TCS's chief explains, much like Billy Joel, that getting it right the next time is not the same thing.
As a schoolboy he would often try to bunk classes without much success. These days, of course, he doesn't even have the option of taking the day off and is forced to shop for music at airports.
But Subramanian Ramadorai doesn't really mind the workload and the long flights give him a chance to catch up on his sleep. For a man who has a fairly large number of Wall Street clients, he's sleeping well.
The MD and CEO of India's biggest software firm, the Rs 18,633 crore (Rs 186.33 billion) Tata Consultancy Services, who's up at five every morning dashing off mails to colleagues and customers says if one is not charged up about what one is doing, it's simply not worth it.
It's probably in the fitness of things that the company, often referred to as the jewel in the Tata crown, occupies the erstwhile Rallis House, now all done up in contemporary style and called TCS House. Click here for the TCS boss's words of wisdom. . .
Text: Shobhana Subramanian
Image: Tata Consultancy Services CEO S Ramadorai. | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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