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HERE IS SOME GREAT INFORMATION ABOUT A GREAT PERSONALITY...
JRD TATA
JEHANGIR RATANJI DADABHOY TATA
ACHIEVEMENTS
AMBITION
ABOUT JRD TATA
MORE ACHIEVEMENTS
SOME DRAWBACKS OF JRD TATA
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JRD TATA
JEHANGIR RATANJI DADABHOY TATA
- known as the ‘MAN OF ALL SEASONS’.
- He and his family
- His love affair in Paris
- His major achievements
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Owned India’s largest private business house.
- Famous for his degree of discipline & perfection
- Owner of Tata Air lines ‘Air India’.
- he was awarded the Bharat Ratna award in 1992.
- He Helped in setting up ‘Tata Memorial Hospital’, ‘TISS’, ‘TIFR’, etc.
AMBITION
- From the tender age of five, J.R.D. was interested in flying planes.
- He then bought two planes ‘Puss Moth’ and flew solo from Karachi to India
- This is how he gave birth to India’s first airline services.
- This is how he accomplished his goal / ambition for flying. Starting with just a desire to fly plane inspired by his neighbor to starting with his own airlines company
ABOUT JRD TATA
- J.R.D was a very self disciplined man with great stewardship.
- He was very ambitious and was stubborn in achieving his goals.
- In spite of all the fame his feet were always on ground.
- The core of his life’s philosophy was embedded in: “Never start with diffidence, Always start with confidence.”
- He also believed in pursuing his passion with compassion by stating that: “To be a leader, you’ve got to lead human beings with affection.”
- He was more comfortable with French than English.
- He found himself as a fine business man after his father’s death. Therefore he joined Tata steel with his first salary of Rs.750.
- Later he took over the Taj Mahal hotel and thus gave us The Taj Group of Hotels that we know of today.
- Then later he started with the first airline company of India.
- On July 1938 he was unanimously elected as the chairman of Tata industries.
- He had an empire of 95 companies under him at one point time. Under his leadership TATA had revenues to the tune of Rs.10000 crores +,
MORE ACHIEVEMENTS
- In 1958-59 he was elected as the chairman of I.A.T.A.
- He was made air commander of I.A.F.
- He was then made the vice president of I.A.F.
- J.R.D was then presented with Tony Jannus award.
- In 1986 he was awarded with the “Bessemer Medal Of the Institution of Metals”, London.
- In 1988 he was awarded with Daniel Guggenheim medal.
- In 1992 he was also awarded with the UN population award.
SOME DRAWBACKS OF JRD TATA
- His leadership style shouted out ‘It’s my way or the high way’.
- He never let others participate in the decision making and hence played a one man show in the company.
- J.R.D. never made any comprehensive succession plan. And therefore Tata group of industries suffered lose after his death
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