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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:09 India can become a powerhouse of product development

00:14 and design, not so much by outstanding these companies

00:20 as by doing simple experiments.

00:22 Carve out a little time for non-permission work.

00:25 When you're skittish about this, oh, I don't know,

00:27 90% are going to fail.

00:30 But remember, 10% are going to work,

00:32 and they're going to work big.

00:33 [APPLAUSE]

00:37 The thing that I'm most passionate about in leadership

00:40 is to genuinely get people to shift behaviors

00:43 for a bigger purpose.

00:46 And when we came out with the new framework

00:48 under which auctions would be the order of the day,

00:51 and with starting from coal, but ultimately

00:53 every natural resource, every national asset,

00:57 can now only be given out through a transparent auction

01:00 process.

01:03 In Levers, the category I handled,

01:06 the board and the boss wanted to follow a certain direction.

01:11 Intrinsically, me and the team felt it was not right.

01:13 We said, this is exactly the wrong way

01:16 to grow this category where we are market leaders.

01:18 Every day I've come here to work 24/7,

01:20 thinking this is my company.

01:22 For the first time, I felt it wasn't.

01:24 And that's when I decided to leave.

01:26 So the local MLA came and, of course,

01:28 very theatrically laid down in front of Cadbury House

01:31 and said, carry me away from here.

01:33 He came with black paint and said,

01:34 I have to blacken the face of the MD.

01:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:38 Everybody tells each other that we should be-- have friends,

01:40 you should talk to people, you should

01:42 be truthful to the market.

01:43 All that is all sometimes rubbish, actually.

01:47 Because really, you tell someone you're in trouble,

01:51 and in the financial services world,

01:53 you're dead sure in deep trouble after that.

01:57 Selling coffee and teas is not a rocket science.

01:59 It is very simple.

02:01 Anybody can do it.

02:02 Sometimes, where I did not have money,

02:05 I walked 14 kilometers from Priya's cinema

02:08 to Kashmiri Gate, where I used to live,

02:10 just because the 50 rupees that I had,

02:12 I had a choice to take a bus or the next day's train.

02:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

02:20 So you always want to have the superhero moment.

02:23 [APPLAUSE]

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02:34 (upbeat music)

02:37 (whooshing)

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