NR Narayana Murthy, the Executive Chairman of Infosys limited, a global software consulting company visited Indian Institute of Management Indore on Sunday.
Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore and the whole IIM Indore community extended a warm welcome to Narayana Murthy on his arrival to the campus at 6:30 pm. With brief introductory remarks of Murthy, the floor was opened for discussion.
While responding to a question from a PGP student, Murthy said that if an institution is not performing well, it is because of the people at the top and it is essential to revitalise the top leadership to ensure sustained growth and prosperity of any company.
He noted that every leader has to shoulder the responsibilities, needs to perform and should be accountable to the higher levels of authorities. In cases where the leaders are not contributing, the company either needs to help them to improve or sometimes take harder steps.
Responding to another question, Murthy said that we can’t have corporations like Google, Facebook etc unless institutions of higher level encourage problem solving approach in the young students. While concluding his enlightening talk, Murthy said that the young students are very fortunate to have been borne at such a time when there are plenty of opportunities in the country.
India has to play a deserving role in the global affairs and also the county has a reasonable chance to solve the problem of poverty.
However, he advised the students that to achieve this, they need to be disciplined, have great commitment level and have to work very hard in life. He also said that the interest of the country should always be ahead of one’s personal interest.