Nadir Godrej is the Managing Director of of Godrej Industries
Nadir Godrej - Family Business | Leadership
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Nadir Godrej - Family Business | Leadership

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Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej Industries, recounts his journey of developing the agricultural and chemical industry in India and helping build one of the country’s leading consumer goods giant Godrej.

Making the tough decision between opting for personal aspirations or joining family ventures. Also, Understand the intricacies of how to run a family business and grooming successors

Learn how efficient CEOs strategise, plan and successfully build their businesses. Get enriching insights into how a leader should self-regulate and create their signature style of leadership for maximum efficiency. Understand how open communication and key management practices can make you a great leader

How entrepreneurs should maintain company values to increase business sustainability, seize opportunities and make them learning experiences. Understand how to manage businesses without compromising on values or profits, improvising strategies for risk management, assessing failures as learning opportunities and when it is necessary to pull the plug on an idea. What do business leaders look for in aspiring entrepreneurs and businesses

How to navigate personal growth in challenging times

How maintaining company values can increase business sustainability

Learn how to seize opportunities and make them learning experiences for endurance and sustainability

Nadir Godrej chronicles the inspiring journey of Godrej industries in India while portraying how keen and methodical efforts helped him assimilate various patents in the field of agricultural chemicals and surfactants. He narrates how his unconventional decision to step away from the family business to gain industry experience catalysed his growth when he finally took reins as the Director of Godrej Consumer Products. The course delves deep into the iworkings of family business, art of entrepreneurship and how having an appetite for risk and enduring through tough times can lead to success in the long term.

Leadership, Family-Business, Succession-Planning, Risk & Failure

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