L’attitude 13' 05 – Discover Knowledge

I had an opportunity to attend L’attitude, annual B-School Festival hosted by Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. One of the keynote speakers in this event is Gururaj Deshpande, 48 year old Gururaj Deshpande, an IIT Chennai graduate is today the second richest Indian, worth $ 3.7 billion at the current market value. Mr. Deshpande is the chairman of Sycamore Networks, headquartered at Boston.

Dr Gururaj started saying, Focus shifted from creating things to betting on who is creating those things. Value adds to value creation is huge in India. Everything there’s a change, leader will emerge. Creation is not easy. You need to start now when you are in school now. Ability to make change is an asset on the personal balance sheet, which will come back to you sometime or later. Large Numbers and High Affordability is the Strength of India. There’s a huge amount of Innovation happening in India. Realize and Champion It.

Social Entrepreneurship projects like Sandbox, founded by Dr Deshpande help in the community upliftment. Incidentally Akshayapatra, an NGO founded by Mr. Deshpande and Mrs. Jaishree Deshpande work on providing mid day meal to the children studying in various schools with the support from local governments. India is a Unique Country. Commercial and Not for Profit Organizations should join hands together and should make the innovations created by both entities to see light.

Youth of this country should have guts to face challenges and failure.