The Global Manager From India

THE MADE-IN-INDIA drive has been a dream project for the government. And the seeds are being sown.

- Karthik Krishnan

The initiative is expected to provide a major boost to the Indian manufacturing and the services sector. In their book, authors R. Gopalakrishnan and Ranjan Banerjee, two highly acclaimed professionals, have given a new twist to the term by listing the traits of Indian manager.

Comfortably straddling corporate and academia, and having worked across multiple geographies, complexities and environments provide the duo the sentience and license to explore the interesting question of what factors go into making a made-in-India manager excel on the global stage. Gopalakrishnan particularly stands tall as a leader, an intellectual and a writer. His previous works are major influencers. One of his books in the R.K. Narayan genre, Comma In A Sentence, is guaranteed to send the reader scrambling and digging into one’s genealogy! Banerjee, a renowned academic, is Dean and Professor, Marketing, at S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Going beyond mere products and services, The Made-In-India Manager explores the factors behind the successful export of a made-in-India manager. The authors make a case for how the ecosystem of the Indian manager’s formative years prepare him/ her for the challenges and ambiguities of the global workplace. The authors have addressed a vast array of variables in shaping the toughness of the made-in-India global manager.