For one of my leadership class, I reviewed the mindfulness of two Indian leaders - Dhirubhai Ambani of Reliance and Ratan Tata of Tata Group.

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PSY350: Mindful Leadership
Faculty: Dr. Persephone Brown
RATAN TATADHIRUBHAI AMBANI
VS
REVIEWING MINDFULNESS OF LEADERS
December 10, 2015

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About Dhirubhai Ambani
• Son of a school teacher
• Disliked school and chose to do physical
work instead
• Worked as petrol pump (gas station)
attendant
• Founded Reliance Industry in 1958
• Diversified group and a fortune 500
company
• Combined net worth of his sons Mukesh
and Anil Ambani is 24 billion USD

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About Ratan Tata
• Great grandson of Tata group founder
Jamsedji Tata
• Studied in Cornell and Harvard
• Joined his family business in 1971 as
director-in-charge
• Became chairman of Tata group in 1991
• Under his stewardship TCS went public
and Tata Motors was listed in NYSE
• Net worth 1billion USD
• Awarded Padma Bhusan, one of the
highest civilian award in India

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Dhirubhai Ambani vs Ratan TataVS
Most prominent business tycoons in India (20th and early 21st century)
Born on same date: Dec 28th
Two largest group of India Inc in terms of revenue and market valuations
Rags-to-riches Heir of a business tycoon
Auto-didacticism Cornell & Harvard Graduate
Diversified groups, part of Fortune 500
Money Making Charity

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Mindful Leadership

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Rollup your sleeves and help
• You and your team share the same DNA
• Sense of do it yourself
• He did not wait for infrastructure and
resource to be available, instead created for
self
Mindful Leadership

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Be a safety net for your team
• Employee quotes: “He always asked we
needed help in combating issues”
• Employee quotes: “He gave us courage they
we never knew we had in us”
Mindful Leadership

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Dream big, but dream with your eyes open
• His words: “dream with your eyes open”
• Approach: “It’s difficult, but not impossible”
• Employee quotes: Did not take no as an
answer
• Believed that a vision has to be within reach,
not in the air. It has to be achievable
Mindful Leadership

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Leave the professional alone
His words:
• “Give (your people) the youth a proper
environment”
• “Motivate them and extend them the
support they need”
• “Each one of them has infinite source of
energy”
• “They will deliver”
Mindful Leadership

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Change your orbit constantly
His words:
• “Growth has no limit at Reliance.”
• “I keep revising my vision.”
• “Only when you dream it you can do it.”
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Arm-around-the-shoulder leader
• His words: “Trust and transparency
stimulates entrepreneurship”
• Employee quotes: “… that did much more
than words in letting me know that I
belonged, that I had his trust, and that I had
him on my side”
Mindful Leadership

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Visionary
• His vision: “One hundred years from now,
I expect the TATAs to be much bigger
than it is now”
Strategist
• Employee quotes: “He is a deep thinker
and extremely strategic. He is always 2-3
steps ahead.”

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Initiator and Change Champion
• Employee quotes: “Ratan was the chief
architect of the Corus deal. I was
worried about the magnitude and the
amount of money. But he instilled
confidence”

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Risk Taking and Determination
• His words during a crisis: “If you put a
gun to my head, you pull the trigger or
take the gun away. I won't move my
head.”
• Employee quotes: “While he doesn’t
look like, he is one the toughest people
I have ever known.”

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Man of Ethics
• Quoted in press: “Tata has shown that
there is no other way he will do
business other than do it ethically”

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Reference
• http://www.diffen.com/difference/Dhirubhai_Ambani_vs_Ratan_Tata
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani
• http://blog.himanshusheth.net/2007/08/19/15-dhirubhaisms-lessons-by-
dhirubhai/
• http://www.slideshare.net/nishah21/management-lessons-from-dhirubhai-
ambani-presentation-796294?related=1
• http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/rajivkumar0006-1691581-ratan-
tata-leader/
• http://www.slideshare.net/Akshay123Sikarwar/presentation-on-ratan-tata
• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ratan-Tatas-message-to-Bengal-
Look-what-Modi-has-done/articleshow/39771488.cms

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