Adi Godrej: The Definitive Biography

“There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.”

                                                                                                                      - By Adi Godrej

Adi Godrej is Zoroastrian and Chairman of Godrej Group. He left India as a teenager and got enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later he did his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, United States.

After having inducted himself in family business, he modernized and systematized management structures and implemented process improvements.  Godrej Group has grown leaps and bounds.  Godrej is major supporter of the World Wildlife Fund in India, it has developed a green business campus in the Vikhroli township of Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre mangrove forest and a school for the children of company employees.

Adi Godrej has played an important role in the development of a variety of industries by leading key organizations of trade and commerce as the former Chairman and President of the Indian Soap & Toiletries Makers’ Association, the Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India, the Compound Livestock Feeds Manufacturers’ Association, the Indo-American Society and as member of the Governing Board of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Adi Godrej has also participated actively in the field of management education as a former Chairman of the Governing Council of the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, as a former member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton Asian Executive Board. Adi is a member of Tau Beta Pi (The Engineering Honor Society) and also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business.

Godrej Group has given maximum number of products in different market segments viz. Godrej Hair Colour which has 40% market share, Refrigerators, Almirahs, Locks, Cinthol Soaps & Toiletries, Ezee, Godrej Furniture.

Adi got his middle class values from his mother who was a school teacher and taught him the greatest lesson of Humility.

Adi is health conscious and keeps himself fit and remains very busy with work.

Adi believes that one should listen to young people as you may get novel and first hand ideas which can be combined with experience to give birth to innovation. He maintains open door policy in office and attends work every morning sharp at 8 am.

Adi Godrej emphasizes that “Professionalism is not anybody's exclusive privilege hence, it is important for everybody to ensure that success stories are read, digested and innovated.”

 “I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.”

“It's a mistake to believe technology rests outside India. We compete very successfully.”

“Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.”

“When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong.”

                                                                                                                  - By Adi Godrej

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sabeer Bhatia : Co Founder Of Hotmail

Image
  "Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test. "                                                                                                                   - By Sabeer Bhatia. Who could have imagined that a simple young man from an upper middle class family in India would rise up to the global forum, finding a breakthrough web browser? Hotmail service, the world’s second largest Email service provider that took the world by storm is the brain child of Sabeer Bhatia, a man with simple insight into human needs that can be catered by technology. Sabeer was born into a working class background hailing from Chandigarh, one of the best planned cities of the sub-continent. After...
Read more

Malathi Krishnamurthy Success Story

Image
“I believe in reinventing myself and learning new things everyday. The only disability in someone can be an inferiority complex.”                                                                                              -  By Malathi Krishnamurthy Introduction: Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla is an International para athlete from India. She was awarded Arjuna award and Padma Shri for her achievements. Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, who despite undergoing 33 surgeries and many setbacks in her life, never gave up and won over 389 golds, 27 silvers and 5 bronzes at national and international events, most of them on a rented wheelchair. She is still the fastest female Indian athlete on a wheelchair. Childhood: Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla was bor...
Read more

Arunima Sinha : Women On Top Of The World

Image
Early life and Carrer Sinha was born in  Ambedkar Nagar   near  Lucknow  in  Uttar Pradesh .  Her father was an engineer in the  Indian Army  and her mother was a supervisor in the health department. She had an elder sister and a younger brother. After her father died, her sister's husband thrived to take care of her family. Sinha liked   football  and also was a national volleyball player. She wanted to join  paramilitary forces . She got a call letter from  CISF   and faced her life-changing accident while traveling to Delhi in its response. Train accident Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player, ]  boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 12 April 2011, to take an examination to join the  CISF .  She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by robbers wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Recounting the incident, she said: I resisted and they pushed me out...
Read more