E76 – Ravi Venkatesan – Flourishing in Turbulent Times

Ravi Venkatesan is a business leader, author, and social entrepreneur. He is the chairman of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME). He is also UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation and serves on the Boards of Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd. Ravi has previously also served as the chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda, and Cummins India and co-chairman of Infosys Limited. He has a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School and is the author of two bestselling books, ‘What the Heck Do I Do with My Life: How to Flourish in Our Turbulent Times’ and ‘Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere’. Ravi has been voted as one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020.

Timestamps 

• What is Pygmalion effect – 2:40
• Operating with challenges and managing self-doubts – 11:00
• What the Heck Do I Do with My Life – 18:15
• Power of 3 – 28:27
• Global Alliance of Mass Entrepreneurship – 36:10
• Making it Stick – 40:06

Quotes

• Show confidence in other people
• Persons through potential are unknown and unknowable – Carol Dweck
• Courage is not the absence of feat but it’s the ability to operate despite of it
• You will go as far as the team you are able to assemble
• You must learn to disagree without being disagreeable