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Shivakumar: 90% of Indian brands fail due to excessive promotions
“90% of the brands in India have gone down the tube because of excessive promotions.”
Shivakumar: India's middle class is at most 430 million people
“If you're talking the middle class of India, that's about 404 hundred and thirty million people. Can't be more than that.”
Shivakumar: Companies will hire for soft skills and train hard skills
“So I think, I personally believe in a future world, we will hire for soft skills and train for hard skills. In the past, we hired for hard skills and trained for soft skills.”
Shivakumar: A lot of talented Indians will return to India
“Now, I personally believe you'll see a lot of talented Indians coming back. A lot of talent Indians will say, hey, there is good opportunity in India. Maybe there was some kind of opportunity in this country, but maybe India is worth trying.”
Shivakumar: 90% of My Decisions Over 20 Years as CEO Were Correct
“When I look back at my decisions over the last, ah, 20 years as a CEO, I could say that nine times out of 10 I was right. And that's a pretty good strike rate.”
Shivakumar: Background verification agencies find 5% to 7% fraud in candidate checks
“Today I was talking to somebody in the verification business. They verify candidates for first job to IT companies, banks, etc, etc. I asked him, ah, you know, hey Ravi, if you interviewed hundred people, the company asked you to interview hundred people, do t…”
Shiv: Nokia scaled Indian retail outlets beyond China's mobile phone industry
“So we went from about 40 distributors to about 400. We went from I think, 10, 15,000 outlets to more than a lakh outlets or two lakh outlets, which is more outlets than China mobile phone industry.”
Shivakumar: 2003 pricing strategy drove 43% quarterly volume growth at Unilever
“And when we did that, the first quarter, when we put this whole strategy in place, we grew 43% volume growth.”
Shivakumar: Only 5% to 7% of business school grads become mid-to-large company CEOs
“If you look at empirical data of mid-sized to large-sized companies, not startups and people who start their own company, about five to seven percent of a batch makes it to CEO.”