HN_ANI_DELHI_ANAND_MAHINDRA_22-07-26

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1/11/2025

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00:30I think I think that's fantastic advice I think there there is a need for this conversation

00:40because you know corporate leaders have created wealth and and created millions of jobs in

00:48India the young have their own understanding of how they want to lead their lives and that

00:53is leading to a lot of debate as well you may be aware about work-life balance and there

00:58are prescriptions on 70-hour work weeks 90-hour work weeks how do you address something like

01:04that you know what is your idea of this balance and how much is too much you know I said as

01:10a audience may this so I'll get on a yard going to go to a butcher so I I'll tell you

01:18I have a very I have huge respect for mr. Narayan Murthy and others so let me not let

01:23me not get this wrong but I have to say something I think this debate is in the wrong direction

01:34because this debate is about the quantity of work my point is we have to focus on the

01:40quality of work not on the quantity of work so it's not it's not about 48 40 hours it's

01:48not about 70 hours it's not about 90 hours what output are you doing even if it's 10 hours you

01:55can change the world in 10 hours so my the ministers just sent me a note saying we have

02:09the my Bharat platform which is a single width window platform for all youth activities and

02:14we will integrate with the aspire platform thank you sir now that's what you call an

02:22action-oriented government right you didn't even wait one minute before responding my

02:29salaam to you so coming back to your question bulky I have always believed that you have

02:36to have leaders and people in your company who make wise decisions wise choices so the

02:44question is which kind of mind makes the right choices and right decisions and I think a

02:51mind that is exposed to holistic thinking that is open to inputs from around the world

02:59that is that's why I'm such a votary of liberal arts I think even if you are an engineer even

03:04if you are an MBA you must study art you must study culture the MC was very kind that we support

03:10art and culture why why am I making shareholders pay for that because I think you make better

03:15decisions when you have a whole brain when you are informed about arts culture that's when you

03:21make a good decision if you don't if you're not spending time at home if you're not spending time

03:27with friends if you're not reading if you're not if you don't have time to reflect how will you

03:32bring the right inputs into making a decision let's take our business you make a car we have

03:38to decide what a customer wants in a car if we are only in the office all the time we are not

03:44with our families we are not with other families how are we going to understand what people want

03:48to buy what kind of car do they want to sit in so that is why I'm a big votary I'm not gonna say

03:53you need to work so many hours of that often you have to be in a tunnel just to complete a project

03:59or there's a crisis but you should not be in a tunnel every time and Gandhi G said open your

04:04windows let the air you know let the air in so I definitely think there's no such thing as the

04:11work-life balance there is something where you it's not about balancing two things you make good

04:17decisions if you have a holistic life and you cannot be in a tunnel all the time absolutely

04:22and I think there's something to be said for both the arguments I mean you don't become a

04:27Narayan Murthy with a nine-to-five work schedule right sometimes you have to push we grew up

04:32learning things like no pain no gain and yet I think everybody has their own threshold and

04:37they decide what they you you're very successful if I could ask you how many hours a week do you

04:42work you know this is what I want to avoid bulky I don't want it to be about the time I don't want

04:52it to be about quantity ask me what's the quality of my work don't ask me how many hours I work

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