Ish Vaidya

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• Presented by
• Ish Vaidya

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We generate wealth for the people. What comes
from the people must, to the extent possible,
therefore get back to the people. J.R.D. Tata
(1904- 1993)
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• Was the 2nd child of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and
  his French wife Sooni
• moved to India in 1925
• In 1938 , JRD Tata was made the head of India's
  largest industrial empire

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• Under his leadership, the Tata assets grew from
  Rs 62 crore in 1939 to over Rs 10,000 crore in
  1990. At the same time, the number of companies
  under the group grew from 14 to 50 large
  manufacturing ones

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• Apart from being a businessman par excellence, he
  was a patron of the sciences and the arts, a
  philanthropist and yet a man with a passion for
  literature, fast cars, skiing and flying

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• JRD's outstanding contributions to India were the
  
• -Tata Airlines (1932)
• -TELCO
• -TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental
  Research) in 1945

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• As an aviator and pioneer flier, he brought
  commercial aviation to India. JRD's passion for
  planes led him to set up Air India in 1948.
• When it was nationalised in 1953, under his
  chairmanship Air-India was ranked among the
  finest airlines in the world.

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• TELCO began with locomotives, but he foresaw it
  becoming a great engineering company of which
  Tata Iron and Steel Company (Tisco now Tata
  Steel) was the springboard

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• Without support provided by Jeh, history would
  have been very different. Homi Bhabha may not
  have stayed on In India TIFR may not have come
  into existence, as it is now
• Dr. K.R Menon
• (sucessor of Dr Homi Bhabha)

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• And as a philanthropist, he was respected for
  building and keeping alive the tremendously
  active Tata charitable trusts

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• Leadership, according to him, meant motivating
  others. once he was confident that a manager
  would perform, he gave him a long rope.
• "As chairman, my main responsibility is to
  inspire respect

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• According to JRD, quality had to match
  innovation. He stressed "If you want excellence,
  you must aim at perfection. I know that aiming at
  perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go
  into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of
  energy out of you but that's the only way you
  finally actually achieve excellence

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• At his behest, Tata Steel became one of the
  earliest companies in India to have a dedicated
  human resource department

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• JRD was also the first industrialist to move
  beyond the welfare of his own workers to that of
  the surrounding areas in which the Tata companies
  and factories operated. He did not want his
  companies to be islands of prosperity in a sea of
  poverty.

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• JRD, who was known for his outspokenness and
  boldness, made some highly critical comments
  about the economic policies of the Central
  Government.
• JRD's trenchant attack of the government policies
  was trimmed down by the reporters of the dailies
  to appear very natural and constructive
• (T.Damu, Vice-President, Taj Group of Hotels )

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• It was their highest regard and respect for that
  towering personality called JRD that did the job
  silently.

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• I saw him as a role model for his simplicity, his
  generosity, his kindness and the care he took of
  his employees
• If at all time stops and asks me what I want from
  life, I would say I wish JRD were alive today to
  see how the company we started has grown. He
  would have enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
• SUDHA NARAYAN MURTY

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• Thank You