Go Ahead : sometimes its easier to just go ahead & face the truth than spending the rest of your life trying to hide from it

Go Ahead  : Sometimes its easier to just Go Ahead & face the truth than spending the rest of your life trying to hide from it.

The Spirit of J R D Tata : “Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation…. wrong priorities and unattainable targets”

Quotes :

“Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….

wrong priorities and unattainable targets”


The Life and Times of  J  R  D  Tata  :

Against all odds

His achievements have to be seen through the lens of India's economic and political history. Under British colonial rule until 1947, India was strait-jacketed by a foreign exchange crunch for almost forty years after independence, which gravely limited industrial entrepreneurship.

From 1964 to 1991 severe government controls on big business further curbed the growth of the Tata Group.

Analysing his own performance, JRD Tata insisted that his only real contribution to the group's smorgasbord of companies was Air-India. For the rest, he generously gave credit to his executives.

Any chronicle of the Tata Group's growth therefore has to take the contribution of these larger than life men into account. JRD's story is, in many ways, as much theirs as his own. Yet, it would be a mistake to under-assess JRD's role. As one of the senior Tata executives, Darbari Seth, once said, 'Mr Tata was able to harness a team of individualistic executives, capitalizing upon their strengths, downplaying their differences and deficiencies; all by the sheer weight of his leadership.'

 J R D Tata in his own words :

• "I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country." 
• — JRD Tata, after receiving the Bharat Ratna, 1992