The Hindu Business Line : `Prepare for global challenges'

Chennai May 13 For the crop of young managers joining the workforce today, globalisation has thrown up several new opportunities, one of the most important one being the chance to head a global team sitting in Chennai or an overseas centre.

"Are you ready to face a global challenge," that is the question Mr V. G. Somasekhar, CEO, Tamil Nadu & Kerala, Reliance Communications Ltd, asked students at the SRM School of Management.

According to him, as professionals working with an Indian MNC, which could be headquartered in Chennai, and having offices across the world, they may be expected to head their company's American, European, African, or West Asian operations.

Global standards

"This challenge requires you to set global standards for yourself and to adopt a global mindset," he said. That is the way Indian business is growing.

Mr Somasekhar was addressing the students at the institute's inter-collegiate management meet `Commune', which was organised under the aegis of BL Club.

The global mindset referred to setting the highest standards in anything that they wished to do and believed in. "You should be the best in whatever you wish to do and believe in," he said.

"Globalisation is the new mantra. Education, the Internet and communication breakthroughs have shrunk the world," he said. He urged the emerging `Global Indian Managers' to rise above local parochial considerations to adopt a more liberal world-view.

Emphasising that the time had come for them to make their mark in their fields of expertise, he said: "Now is the time. There is no better time to make your `mark'."

He pointed out that they were lucky to have had the opportunity to complete 20 years of formal education.

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