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worked for Sri Sri Ravishankarji’s ashram.
How does BVG ensure the highest quality standards in hundreds of locations?
setting up the right systems.
entire plants from one location to another
expatriate!
how much you value people as human beings is the question most CEOs fumble to answer.
For Hanmant Gaikwad, it’s about doing ‘whatever I can’ for the maximum number.
They ask Hanmant, “Which management books have you read?”
He replies, “I have not read management, I have not studied management. It is in my blood.” His fundas are simple: “If I spend two rupees, I must get three rupees from the customer.”
collateral
“Eknath Thakur is a visionary person. I remember he told me, ‘I don’t believe in collateral… that is saahukari. I do banking’.”
Jhaveri (then Director, HSBC Securities) who explained to me concepts like ‘valuation’ and PE multiplier.”
As Ramdevji says, ‘Badi soch, kadi mehnat, pakka iraada.’
hardwork, dedication, quality of work, there is no substitute for this.
If you say, “I will work from home, I will wake up at eleven in the morning…” No, it will not work.
Kuch karna hai, toh marna padhta hai.
Dhandha karne ke liye bahut paise ki zaroorat nahin hai. Sachhe dil se, imandari se kaam karo and you will be successful in whatever you do.
Tantra has done to the t-shirt what Karan Johar did to boy-girl romance.
tyrant
“Some people discover who they are and what they want to do at 18, others discover the answer at 26. Still others never figure it out all their lives. We all germinate (or fail to) at different times.”
candid
dungeon-like
Humiliating,
but part of life’s experience.
my parents - which I still thank them for - is that they were very non-interfering,
ambitious
Sheila Sayed
The Edge.”
peculiar
modus operandi
wits.”
“I used to value my Saturdays and Sundays. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t work if I was called on Saturdays.
evangelist.
So what was the magic? Location was one factor, but Ranjiv feels that Hathiramani also had the ‘right heart’ and the ‘right spirit’ for the product.
garland
“There is only one 5 star hotel in Tirupur and they send out the guest list to all the suppliers in town.
‘magic letter’.
swindled
All well and good, but what about the creative part - the soul of the business?
In fact, coming up with ideas is not the issue. Choosing the right ideas
obscure
“Tantra is an honest product. We never go on sale because we’ve already priced it as low as we can without going out of business!”
radical!”
‘gsm’.
skepticism
The truth was doing dhandha was taking its toll on the creative soul.
staggered
prevailed!
In fact, what we want to do now is start a t-shirt supermarket, if somebody can finance me…”
Tantra has not borrowed a single rupee from any bank. “Actually, it would be very easy for us to scale up 100 times, but we don’t want to do it because it would just bring stress and high blood pressure.”
