Just a month old in Mahindra Group, Anish Shah had said no to Anand Mahindra

New Delhi, 10 Aug (PTI) eleven years ago, only one month before the term of office in the Mahindra group, Anish Shah, billionaire boss Anand Mahindra’nın plans to go to the board of directors said no.

The Shah’s perspective won and the Board finally rejected the offer. Today, as Group CEO and MD, Shah sees it as a valuable gift, not an opposition, not as a ‘no’ from a young colleague.

Shah, the general manager of the Mahindra group in April 2021, is generally considered as the “People’s CEO” – a man who values the constructive opposition and is looking for employees who give priority to the company above all.

In an interview with PTI videos, Shah gives loans to the President of the Group Anand Mahindra because it creates a strengthening and open environment in the group.

Most people said that everything about the CEOs has been misleading that everything can be done through power, but that he would take care of a good leader because others would want to do it.

When asked how the Mahindra group has managed to balance between the basic competences and innovation, we think that leaders help to create a really good balance, because if decisions are made by a small person, then you can’t get the right answers. ”

Further elaboration, “Strengthening not only to the next level, but after that – people who are closer to the customer. People who are closer to the customer. They understand what the needs of customers. We want to give them freedom of expression in a product and this allows us to create this balance”.

When asked if he had disagreements with Anand Mahindra, the Shah remembered an incident 11 years ago in the first month of Mahindra in the Mahindra group after joining the group strategy as the President of the Group Strategy.

“I saw this and I said I wouldn’t do it. And that’s why, why don’t I do all the reasons,” Shah recalled, “Anand’s usual style, turning back and turning,” Okay, I’ll ask you the same question I asked you today, and I want you to give you the same answer to me today ‘.

The next day, at the Board of Directors meeting, Anand and another colleague submitted an offer to the Board about what to do and what it was necessary to do so and had a discussion on it.

“Then Anand says on the board that ‘Anish has an perspective I want you to hear.’

“At the end of the discussion, the Board decided not to do it,” he said.

Shah by talking about the incident, “This gives you a sense of clarity that Anand always has to bring different views. As he always says, we need to reach the right answer for the company. And we need to look at all the diversity before reaching the answer”.

When asked how to deal with ‘no’ when he comes from someone under three levels, the Shah said, “In my opinion, I will buy No as a gift.”

Explaining that the most important thing for the leaders to do is to value it a lot, because it is not easy for the three levels to come and say that you need to do something different. What you do is not true and sometimes the future of the best ideas “.

The Shah said that leaders should have the courage to hear such things from their subordinates.

“I think what most people get wrong is that you can do everything from power. However, a good leader will do things because others want to do it.”

Shah shared the methods of remaining outside the details and to be included in the group, the group’s focus on the philosophy of “our aim and values”, in order to provide strategy and operational excellence for businesses, when combined with ‘fantastic talent’ among businesses, “outside the day to work on the day of day” and focused on the primary areas.

When I was asked that the current success of Mahindra Group is to draw aside to Anand Mahindra’s prime minister and allow professionals to work, he was also asked to work, “You are right, it is not easy to get away, but always strengthens the leaders and always for guidance … We always searched for the best in people and our aim, our aim, our aim,

In addition, professionals who belong to non -Mahindra families, in 1945, the dignity of their founders opposed the antisocial tendencies, neither caste, faith, nor the color of the group emphasized the morality and culture of the group that emphasized as the color of a meritocracy said.

The Shah said, “We’ve been DNA since then, and this is something we value. We are proud of it, and as leaders, it is an important part of our role to ensure that we protect it as a part of our fabric, because it doesn’t leave very much.” He said.