Insights from Sudhir Sitapati (Author - The CEO Factory) - The Full Conversation

I caught up with Sudhir Sitapati in the context of his recently published book - The CEO Factory - Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever. We spoke at length about several elements of the secret sauce of HUL (role of the HR function, how it thinks about potential, entrepreneurial professional culture, treatment of mavericks and more). Sudhir also reflects on how he has thought about his journey at various points in time and what got him to HUL and why he has chosen to stay in HUL along the way.
Sudhir refers to Prof AK Jain of IIMA in the book and during our conversation. I happen to have interviewed him a few months back in IIMA. To listen to my conversation with Prof AK Jain, please visit • Getting candid with Pr...
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[@subhamukherjee5402]

Great insight 🙏 Learn things like Consumer's need, integrity, HR's importance last bt nt the least the in & out of Sales & Marketing in a very conventional way.

[@akhilagarwal356]

Best thing was, when Sudhir said, early heroes should not be made.❤️ Now, I am fine and will wait for my turn to be a hero. Maybe someday in HUL

[@nandkumarb]

1 year, 4K views and 5 comments on this video. Where is the Indian youth Łơšť.

[@arpitnahata]

It was great to hear this conversation and as a take away there are great direction setting attributes. One Question...On Kissan it was said that building category (solving unsolved problem) should work better so how could in the example shared how could adding new products of Kissan is not a right decision given from category perspective this seems right thing to do!

[@InterviewDOT]

Excellent presentation thanks for sharing 👌🙏 Interviewdot

[@nandkumarb]

All youngsters should listen to the stuff said @ 40:50

[@kalyanrao8634]

Informative, great insights & learning from this video

[@akarsh8392]

Great insight, lot of deep insight thought process, not easy to follow but yes one can always implement with the time. Great learning 👌

[@SS-fw1dd]

"How to make ice cream business profitable for the retailer? " 12-years of predictable career path.. Helps Leader yo show his mettle. Should not creates Heroes too soon, differentiation is prudent way. Follow the process or rule. How do I grow faster... Capital focus, rotation focus. Local managements, giving freedom to operate units. Drive-Influence-judgement. GD facilitating problem solving, Character and Caliber, Integrity, admitting vulnerabilities.

[@surajbhandage5685]

Deepak Jayaram looks like: YUAL NOAH HARARI