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‘Krishnamurthy’s leadership has shown that he can achieve stupendous tasks. If for any reason at all he fails, virtually the entire public sector will have to be written off for the next twenty years,’ noted the panel that chose V. Krishnamurthy as the Business India Businessman of the Year in 1987. Management of a business enterprise in India is more difficult than in other countries. There are far more uncertainties that an Indian manager has to encounter while performing his tasks-even more so in state-owned companies than in private ones. But Krishnamurthy, through his exemplary stewardship of three major enterprises, changed the rules of the game in the 1970s and 1980s. At Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, he saved the company from imminent disintegration and dispelled Indira Gandhi’s impression that Indian managers did not have the ability to manage large organizations. At Maruti, he was given the responsibility of not just manufacturing a car but of modernizing the automobile industry itself. Steel Authority of India Limited was almost a sunset company when he took over, but he shook up the organization from its very foundations and put it back in a leadership position. At the Helm is the story of how a boy from the small village of Karuveli in Tamil Nadu starts out as a technician at airfields during the Second World War but goes on to script the biggest success stories of young India’s fledgling public sector over the next five decades.
© 2018 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9780430017724
Release date
Audiobook: 21 June 2018
4.2
Biographies
‘Krishnamurthy’s leadership has shown that he can achieve stupendous tasks. If for any reason at all he fails, virtually the entire public sector will have to be written off for the next twenty years,’ noted the panel that chose V. Krishnamurthy as the Business India Businessman of the Year in 1987. Management of a business enterprise in India is more difficult than in other countries. There are far more uncertainties that an Indian manager has to encounter while performing his tasks-even more so in state-owned companies than in private ones. But Krishnamurthy, through his exemplary stewardship of three major enterprises, changed the rules of the game in the 1970s and 1980s. At Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, he saved the company from imminent disintegration and dispelled Indira Gandhi’s impression that Indian managers did not have the ability to manage large organizations. At Maruti, he was given the responsibility of not just manufacturing a car but of modernizing the automobile industry itself. Steel Authority of India Limited was almost a sunset company when he took over, but he shook up the organization from its very foundations and put it back in a leadership position. At the Helm is the story of how a boy from the small village of Karuveli in Tamil Nadu starts out as a technician at airfields during the Second World War but goes on to script the biggest success stories of young India’s fledgling public sector over the next five decades.
© 2018 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9780430017724
Release date
Audiobook: 21 June 2018
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Abhay
24 Nov 2021
At the Helm is a saga of entrepreneurship in the public sector, innovative thinking on management, human relations, marketing, quality improvement , effective and visionary leadership and of grit.In India, where rarely do we associate entrepreneurship and building of large businesses with public sector managers, this book shows a different picture.
Vivek
4 Jan 2023
Glad to know V Krishnamurthy is fromchennai. Making myself a proud Chennai-ite. Mr Krishnamurthy is a leading example of a long-life-well-lived. Not an authority on steel and yet becomes the chairman of Steel authority of india. Has zero knowledge of automobile industry and yet builds the car brand with the highest market share - Maruti. Here is a man who has done outstanding work in the public sector - a sector for the most logical reason many avoid. His daring original thinking when herd mentality was the only way of thinking and daring to challenge conventions when conservatism is the only mode of operation is nothing short of breathtaking. Highly recommend it.
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