Lessons from Legends - Inspiring and Invaluable quotes taken from the excerpts of speeches made by various guests in Great Lakes Institute of Management. In this series, presenting Mr. Venu Srinivasan : inspiring words from her speech at Great Lakes Institute of Management.

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Presents
LESSONS FROM LEGENDS
- Powerful quotes from visionaries
- Mr. Venu Srinivasan
Chairman and Managing Director, TVS Motor
Company, India

2. “These are invaluable quotes taken from the
excerpts of speeches made by various guests in
Great Lakes Institute of Management.”
These excerpts were taken from Mr. Venu Srinivasan's
talk at
Great Lakes Institute of Management.
LESSONS FROM LEGENDS
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Quality in leadership comes first.
Quality in process, products and
services comes next. Quality became
the buzz word 25 years ago. Before
that it was thought if you add quality
it would increase your cost. The
Japanese broke that belief and
proved that quality can actually cost
you less.
– Quality, a key outcome of effective
leadership

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The next is value-led leadership.
Values act like signposts, helping
people take right decisions. When
you are guided by values you will not
do something that breaks trusts with
society, even if you can get away
with it.
–VALUES INSPIRE PEOPLE

5. A business has five partners:
customers, suppliers, dealers,
employees, and society. Respect
and trust your partners. Your
suppliers are not just suppliers but
entrepreneurs. If you don't have
trust in your employees, for
instance, they are not going to
create customers for you.
–PARTNERS TO A BUSINESS
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6. Quality management actually
helps you hold knowledge, which
cuts across an entire gamut of
functions: of order, payment
fulfillment, manufacturing, and
supply chain. How do you hold
knowledge? Ultimately knowledge
is held by people in the form of
structures, databases, work
standards, procedures, and so on.
– THE ROLE OF QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
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7. To develop exceptional people and
teams to follow the philosophy, it is
not enough to have exceptional
Intellectual Quotient and Emotional
Quotient, you also require
exceptional commitment.
– THE PHILOSOPHY OF EFFECTIVE
LEADERSHIP
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8. Finally, the most important thing is
sustainability in leadership. How you
are going to sustain your company by
constantly building the current
generation and creating leadership
for the next generation?
– SUSTAINABILITY IN LEADERSHIP
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9. Story telling is one of the most important
things that a leader does. In the last few
years I have become a very good story
teller because that is the only way you
can get people interested in you. The
moral is easy to absorb if it’s a story.
– STORY TELLING AS A TECHNIQUE TO
SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP
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10. The most important and challenging task for
any entrepreneur lies in creating an
institution that is going to transcend his/her
success. It is about creating an institution,
about building a culture which creates
excellence, and passing the right attitude
on to excellent leaders who would continue
to carry the flame.
– THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE
LEADERSHIP
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