Young Indians Annual Day
Venu Srinivasan, Managing Director, Sundaram Clayton Limited, speaking at the annual day of Young Indians (Coimbatore Chapter) in the city on Friday. Total Quality Management (TQM) enables systematic learning and gives sustained results in an organisation, according to Venu Srinivasan, Managing Director of Sundaram Clayton Limited. It was a new India today that had confidence in the younger generation and was ready to empower young men and women and allowed them to lead.
He was speaking on ‘Leadership’ at the annual day of Young Indians (Coimbatore Chapter) here on Friday. Mr. Srinivasan said it was the leader who made the difference in an organisation and quality leadership created institutions that had excellence in daily work, discipline, total employee involvement and achieved customer satisfaction. TQM was a structure to hold the excellence and knowledge of a company.
It was a new India today that had confidence in the younger generation and was ready to empower young men and women and allowed them to lead. “We are now seeing a rapidly changing economy,” he said. The country had several opportunities and challenges. “Our greatest challenge is reforming the country.” Reforms should penetrate to the lower levels of administration too, he said.
China had higher literacy, health quality and superior infrastructure compared to India and it wanted to get all the manufacturing jobs. Building a competitive manufacturing India was a challenge. So, institutions needed leadership with integrity, consistency and vision. From the management point of view, style was important to customers now and consumer preferences were changing.
The leader would have to build something that would endure changes. Companies led by such a leadership would break compromise and would continuously make better products. Such leaders stimulate continuous progress, he said. Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Coimbatore Zone, C.N. Ashok said leadership was not about changing the mindset of the group but cultivation of an environment that brought out the best in individuals. To lead, one must create a platform through education and awareness where individuals fill each other’s needs.
