Arun Maira who worked for 25 years with the Tata Group, remembers his early years with Ratan Tata.
'It is notable how humble he was and didn't want anything different just because he was a Tata.'
Was Manmohan Singh focused too much on getting policy right, while Narendra Modi is focused essentially on getting projects moving?
'Ratan had the quality that JRD and Russi Mody had -- they could walk with kings and never lose the common touch.'
'A foot-in-mouth disorder seems to grip the government, and is growing chronic by the day,' says Sunil Sethi.
Mr Tata said a letter had arrived in his office from a young woman who had applied for the graduate engineering programme of TELCO Pune and been turned down. 'I wouldn't interfere with your selection process, Maira,' he said. 'However, I am calling you because this lady says that her rejection letter says that though she is very well qualified for the programme, TELCO Pune cannot select her because she is a woman.' 'Why are you discriminating against women?' he asked. A must read excerpt from Arun Maira's The Learning Factory: How The Leaders Of Tata Became Nation Builders.
'Unless we change and we see a change in the direction we are taking, times can only get worse.'
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