I don't think i would be writing this post had it not been for Mr. Anon who has been visiting my blog more than often.... actually he frequents it more than me... i feel so:)
This post is about yesterday 12-8-05, friday.
There were two important events which took place. One event is related to a friend of mine ... let us call her 'x'
Let me narrate what happened.
I and x have taken two management courses together. We had to write a letter and get the consent of teacher. Usually, not usually but always, we go to prof. ourselves and get it. It is not considered good to send a friend asking a prof. to sign consent form for you. We both needed it. There was no hurry. On Friday afternoon i got her sms saying that she had the consent for me that for me. I was totally
Surprised. This was a very nice gesture from her side. I was bewildered as to why? If she would have had got only her consent, i wouldn't have had felt anything. I would have probably thought that she got prof.'s signature, implies prof. is in the dept., hurry and get it!
Actually, i felt that since last year we were not sharing the good friendship we used to, but i see a silver lining in the clouds. It will be good if our friendship could improve.
Amen
the second event:
CMD of CavinKare, Mr C K Ranganathan visited our campus and i attendede the talk. It was for MBA students but we (me and x and y) also attended it. When Mr CK entered the room i was dumbstruct for he looked like one amongst us, even our prof. said this when he was introducing him. He looked very young to start a company and make it as big as a 500cr. gaint. He was dressed in black with a white belt. He started with his story. He was slow in his talk but whatever he said was full of fire because he supported each of his statement with incidences in his life. He told that his father was a maths teacher in a school. He was never satisfied with the job. One fine day he quitted his job. His philosophy was 'What rich enjoy make it so that the poor may afford it'. And keeping this view in mind he came with the idea of shashe. He was the first person to use shashe. He started a company which made shampoo and he packaged it in shashe and sold it across the nation under the brand name velvette. Thus a firm was born.
Our hero, was the fourth in the family, 2 elder bros, a elder sis, a younger bro and a sis. He somehow had problems which others never faced. He was terrible in studies while others did well. The family consisted of doctors and lawyers and our hero. Mr. CK was not able to cope up in english medium and became the only member in the family to be shifted to Tamil medium. Still he strived to pass his exams and managed to secure his degree. By the time he was finishing his degree his father expired. His brother decided to sell off the company. Fortunately or unfortunately they couldn't. There father had taken a loan of 2 lacs and bank manager told them that they cannot sell it until they pay back the debt. Elder brother started running the business. His father was of the view that "if the product is good you should not advertise, advertisement is done for the products whose quality is questionable". But his sons held other view and started advertising. With advertising revenues increased and company was on its feet. At this stage Mr CK entered the company finishing his degree.
This was really a important stage in his life. He had inferiority complex. He was the only one in the family who did not know how to read or write english. But within two months of his work in the company he knew that he was at par with others in terms of thinking of new ideas. But this was a problem as his elders won't listen to what he had to say. Finally, after eight months of work in the company his father had founded he left his home and company, leaving behind himself all the property and land. He had with him only 15000 rs which he had earned while he was working in his father's company. Mr CK was in deep trouble. With no support fro his family, he had to do something to accomplish the big dreams. He started another brand of shashe shampoo called 'Chik'. His father's name was Mr.
Chinni
Krishnan. But he was firm in his belief and vision. But how to get his brand to sell in market? He thought over and came up with many new stategies which his well wishers said was next to commiting suicide. He thought that 'i am confident of the ideas and i have no other option as well, so lets try'. He took the risk. And today we all know about CavinKare. The firm that started in 1991 by a man having inferiority complex, took HLL and P&G head on. Now, he boast of his 500cr. company.
But this is a well deserved victory. He said that the fundament reason why he succeded was the fact that he put all his personal intrests behind those of the company. He supported his statement by telling us that untill 2003 he was living in a rented home. He did not buy a space for himself until he had established a good working space for his employees, a good research and development unit. He said that he has been very strong ethically and talks to everyone eye to eye. When asked by a fellow amongst us as to if he had a big appetite for taking risks, he said that he never took risks. It was risk in eyes of others but he was always confident of what he was doing. With the dedication of his, CavinKare will definetly about to reach greater heights.
Amen
