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A company full of angular leaders is unlikely to succeed, and, therefore, we need both the dreamers and the grounded. Renowned business leader Shiv Shivakumar explains why in an interaction with People Matters By Shreejay Sinha
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mong India's most celebrated – and cerebral – business leaders, Shiv Shivakumar has just come out with his third book. Foreworded by Sachin Tendulkar, The Art of Management rests on three pillars – managing yourself, managing your team, and managing your business. Shiv, currently the group executive president at the Mumbai-headquartered conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, has decades of corporate-leadership experience, having led Nokia India and PepsiCo in South Asia with remarkable grace. Given his stellar academic | June 2022
background – Shiv is an IIT and IIM alumnus – and his ascent through the ranks, he is by himself authentically positioned to share the finer nuances of business management, from his early days with Unilever in 1984. Yet, in a testament to his humility and creative originality, he gathered 21 remarkable individuals for this book, all role models in their own right, and conducted extensive interviews with them. As he picks the brains of his subjects, a thoughtfullyeclectic mix of leaders that includes chef Vikas Khanna, General (retired) V.P. Malik, journalist Shereen
Bhan, and banker Renuka Ramnath, Shiv comes across as a deeply curious soul genuinely interested in his guests and looking to deliver value to his readers. What emerges in the end is a nearly 300-page
