What are the traits of a perfect leader?

Are being a people person, encouraging others, and creating new leaders, some of them?

If so, our guest for today, Saugata Gupta, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marico Limited, is just the person. Not only is he responsible for driving the company’s growth and strengthening its presence both nationally and internationally he has also helped in transforming Marico into a high performing business with a commitment to sustainable development and best in class governance.

Along with this, Saugata is also an on the board of Ashok Leyland as Independent Director and is a member of Audit Committee, Nomination and Remuneration Committee and ESG Committee. He is also associated with Delhivery as an Independent Director.

Key highlights:

• You need to have a frame-work for making choices, based solely on your individual liking without getting affected by any outside stimuli
• In order to prioritize goals, one should be ready to drop a few things
• It is imperative to find the cusp between doing what you like and what you are good at
• Time management and multi-tasking is of critical importance in the present time
• Do justice to the things you do, don’t do anything for the heck of doing it
• Digital world has made the universe a lot more exciting and full of opportunities
• Being stress-free and happy is as big a contributor to a healthy lifestyle as what you eat
• Leaders should create more leaders not followers
• Hybrid model boosts diversity and inclusion
• If you keep on doing good things, good things happen to you
• Don’t compromise the long term for a short term gain

Why should you listen to this podcast:

Do you wish to carve your own path? Do you aspire to prioritize your individuality over the opinions of others? This then, is the podcast for you. Motivating all to take their own decisions, Saugata Gupta, will encourage you to find the cusp between what you like doing and what you're good at doing, while simultaneously inspiring you to experiment beyond that too. His words are sure to nudge one towards the direction of introspection and improvement.

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