Creative thinking and leadership talk by Samish Dalal and Rustom Vesavevala

The second half of the Print Summit 2015 saw two energetic speakers enthrall the audience with their speech. Professor Samish Dalal, a masters in business administration invoked the audience on what and how a creative thinking for innovation can change one’s business ideas.

17 Jan 2015 | By Anand Srinivasan

According to Dalal, doing business is a matter of mindset. “There is no death of an industry. It only evolves,” he claimed. To sustain such a business model his idea was that one should become a venture capitalist for your own business.

He advised the audience to believe in their ideas and follow them and take them to create an innovation model. “You got to innovate for yourself,” he stated. He supported this with an example of a basic concept and an innovation pioneered by an Indian “ideaconcept”

He pointed out that copying business ideas is not a bad thing but in turn it means that the business is expanding.

He concluded his speech by elaborating two basic principles that a person should follow, one cannot copy your passion and one cannot copy your humility.

Rustom Vesavevala, vice president learning and development with the Taj Group of Hotels highlighted the Taj story to convey the story of leadership in the business world.
 


Vesavevala conveying the story of leadership in the business world

Leadership quality is determined by a simple question, How far will people go? In his explanation Vesavevala narrated the story of 26/11 and how the employees’ bravery spoke for itself during this calamity.

He also demonstrated how leadership can emerge from a bottom level staffs and not always from top with a video of a case-study by Rohit Deshpande, a professor at Harvard Business School.

He concluded his speech by quoting a statement, leadership is a very potent combination of strategy and character and if you have to be one, be without strategy.