Abstract
R. Gopalakrishnan a stalwart corporate leader and author truly personifies the successful transmogrified ‘portable’ leader, adept at transitions across functions, intra and inter companies, geographies, and industries, even as he continues to think and write deeply on leadership praxis. Using examples from two companies, Unilever and Tata Sons, in which he spent 48 years, he offers the ‘fruits of labour’ (the manifestations) from deep-seated roots, embedded firmly over the years. The author responds to the changes in the environment as also the cultural kaleidoscope that creates the springboard for leadership action. The author provides lodestones of wisdom fashioned through the anvil of his rich experience, penetrative eye, deep intellect and research, and smart eloquence. Compellingly argued by RG, brilliantly sussed out by Maestro R. R. Nair, this interview will provide rich answers to young practitioners who wish to discover ‘Indianness and the Indian Leader’.
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