00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 India can become a powerhouse of product development
00:14 and design, not so much by outstanding these companies
00:20 as by doing simple experiments.
00:22 Carve out a little time for non-permission work.
00:25 When you're skittish about this, oh, I don't know,
00:27 90% are going to fail.
00:30 But remember, 10% are going to work,
00:32 and they're going to work big.
00:33 [APPLAUSE]
00:37 The thing that I'm most passionate about in leadership
00:40 is to genuinely get people to shift behaviors
00:43 for a bigger purpose.
00:46 And when we came out with the new framework
00:48 under which auctions would be the order of the day,
00:51 and with starting from coal, but ultimately
00:53 every natural resource, every national asset,
00:57 can now only be given out through a transparent auction
01:00 process.
01:03 In Levers, the category I handled,
01:06 the board and the boss wanted to follow a certain direction.
01:11 Intrinsically, me and the team felt it was not right.
01:13 We said, this is exactly the wrong way
01:16 to grow this category where we are market leaders.
01:18 Every day I've come here to work 24/7,
01:20 thinking this is my company.
01:22 For the first time, I felt it wasn't.
01:24 And that's when I decided to leave.
01:26 So the local MLA came and, of course,
01:28 very theatrically laid down in front of Cadbury House
01:31 and said, carry me away from here.
01:33 He came with black paint and said,
01:34 I have to blacken the face of the MD.
01:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:38 Everybody tells each other that we should be-- have friends,
01:40 you should talk to people, you should
01:42 be truthful to the market.
01:43 All that is all sometimes rubbish, actually.
01:47 Because really, you tell someone you're in trouble,
01:51 and in the financial services world,
01:53 you're dead sure in deep trouble after that.
01:57 Selling coffee and teas is not a rocket science.
01:59 It is very simple.
02:01 Anybody can do it.
02:02 Sometimes, where I did not have money,
02:05 I walked 14 kilometers from Priya's cinema
02:08 to Kashmiri Gate, where I used to live,
02:10 just because the 50 rupees that I had,
02:12 I had a choice to take a bus or the next day's train.
02:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:20 So you always want to have the superhero moment.
02:23 [APPLAUSE]
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02:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:34 (upbeat music)
02:37 (whooshing)
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