The CEO, who says it's a must to keep up with the latest technical innovations, because otherwise it would be difficult to command the respect of colleagues, prides himself on his ability to spot talent, saying it's his biggest strength.
"My judgement is almost always right, that's the way I built my team because we don't have an automatic promotion process in TCS," he asserts.
What Ramadorai feels has also helped is TCS's policy of wasting little time in telling an employee that he may not be cut out for the job. The chief believes in giving colleagues his undivided attention; he rarely takes a call or checks his mail while he's with any of them.
How is it that TCS has managed to grow so quickly -- it will be a Rs 23,000 crore (Rs 230 billion) firm this year -- despite the reported bureaucracy in Bombay House?
That's probably because the technology industry needs to move must faster than a manufacturing industry where the cycles are longer, my guest says, as we help ourselves to some really nice stick rice and vegetables wrapped in lotus leaves and another preparation of vegetables.
But I'm not about to give up so easily; what about telecommunications, the Tatas are nowhere there, I point out. Ramadorai offers a diplomatic "No comments" this time.
Image: Miss India 2007 Pooja Gupta launches the 'Tata Indicom 'Freedom Call Voucher.' | Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
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