MBA401: Individual Video Presentation on Effective Leadership

This presentation analyzes the leadership of Mukesh Ambani, focusing on his contributions to the success of Reliance Industries. It identifies key factors such as his risk-taking ability, strategic decision-making, and understanding of market opportunities, including the launch of Jio. The presentation highlights the importance of factors like the company's growth in profits and revenue, its expansion into international markets, and its commitment to CSR activities. It examines how Ambani's leadership has been instrumental in driving exceptional growth, navigating challenges, and maintaining ethical standards, emphasizing the importance of adapting to cultural norms. The presentation also explores the various awards received by Ambani and his wife, and the financial performance of Reliance Industries. Overall, the presentation underscores Ambani's effectiveness in leading Reliance to become a leader in various industries through strategic vision and execution.

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Transcript
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Leaders play a critical role in the success of the organisation. However their success depends
on different types of factors such as leadership style, skills and the approach to leadership.
There are different measures that help in defining the effectiveness of their leadership. Since
it is the performance of the leaders that makes an organisation successful hence evaluating
their leadership is very much critical (Kaur, 2018).
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Leadership has a direct impact on the way organization is doing things and the way in which
they will take the organizations forward. Their role such as designing of the objectives and
development of the strategies makes their role in the success of the organization very much
essential (Dhingra and Aggarwal, 2014).
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Mukesh Ambani has many achievements named after him which also include being a leader
that has not only made Reliance Industries a high profit and revenue generating companies
but also a company that thinks of its stakeholders.
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Mukesh Ambani made reliance the most valuable company from India in terms of market
value. The success of this organisation can be understood by the fact that it was the first ever
Indian company to cross Rs 10 lakh crore market capitalisations with its access to more than
108 markets in the world. This company is operating in the business of Natural Gas,
Telecommunication, Banking, Media, Petro-chemicals, Petroleum, Retail and Textile (Arora
and Gupta, 2011). It is the largest publicly traded company in India in terms of market
capitalisation. This company under the leadership of Mukesh Ambani has become the India’s
largest exporter which accounts to around 8% of the total merchandise export from India.
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There are three value which this company adheres to where there shareholders value in terms
of market capitalisation is around Rs. 5,59,223 crore along with market capitalisation CAGR,
since IPO 31.4%. The market value is represented through the fact that it is more than in 15+

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nationalities represented through their employee bases as well as they are provided with 57+
lakh man hours of training. Their societal value is represented through 50 lakh+ indirect
employment generation along with Rs. 86,942 consolidated contribution to national
exchequer.
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India is one of the biggest countries having large numbers of opportunities available with
them. Mukesh Ambani understood these opportunities and invested in different kinds of
business. Already when his father died this company was into the business of many things but
when he became the Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, he started taking risks which
in turn helped him in achieving high speed growth and helped him to improve the business
and take it to another level (LeRoux and Wright, 2010). For example when he started the
business of ‘Jio’ (telecommunication provider) he provided services to the people free of
cost. This made ‘Jio’ the biggest service provider in the industry wiping out many companies
from their competition in the Indian market. It was a risk taken by him that made him
successful.
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Other than become a good team leader he is also an efficient strategy maker. He is known for
his strategies in different kinds of business that has helped him in ensuring that his business
remains successful. Strategies have been made according to the challenges that are faced by
the company in the fast changing business environment. His strategies such as low pricing
and extensive investments in different profitable areas of business has helped the company to
remain successful (Haq, 2017).
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The first effectiveness measure that can help an organisation in understanding that whether
the leadership is successful or not is the fact that it has scope in the international markets is
the growth of the company. The first in this direction is the fact that there is an increase in the
profits generated by the firm. Reliance industries Ltd. have an increase in the profit share
every year (Kohlrieser, 2011). Alone in the quarter of July-September there is an increase in
the profit shares by 18% which reached to a new level of Rs. 11,262 from Rs. 9,516 that was
an year ago. This was also higher than the first quarter growth of reliance in the year 2019

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which was 7% higher. In the first quarter the company’s revenue increased by the 21.25%
and has reached to Rs. 1.61 lakh crore in the June quarter of 2019.
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Since in the modern day business there are many types of challenges that can be faced by the
companies especially related with ethics and sustainability. This is critical for the
management in the time when the skills are the part of the organisational business. Leaders
such as Mukesh Ambani have made strategies that could help them in reducing the challenges
that might confront their business in the long term. He is also known for communicating with
his stakeholders on the regular basis so as to motivate them and guide them about where they
will have to move. He has also ensured that strategies that are made by the company will
have to be done on the regular basis. In the time when the strategies are getting complicated,
it has become essential for the leaders to ensure that ethics is maintained in it. Since modern
day business has many stakeholders whose interests are to be fulfilled hence it is necessary
for the leaders to look at different aspects of the business so that the interest of any
stakeholders does not get hampered. In all his strategies he has been emphasizing on the
ground reality of that country and according to the cultural norms of that nation (Chatterjee,
2010).
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Relaince Industries Ltd. is working in many areas as a part of their CSR activities. The areas
include disaster response and sport development initiatives etc. They are also including
school children as a part of their sports programme.
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He has been doing the things that would enhance the company’s scope in different areas of
business. It is due to his performance that he received so many awards and it is also replicated
in terms of the strength that company has gathered in his leadership (Vennila, 2017).
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Due to his performance he has received many awards and their different kinds of ventures
have performed extremely well. In this slide it can be seen that both Mukesh Ambani and his
wife Nita Ambani received awards for their work in different social works.
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This slide also shows about different types of cash flows of Reliance industries ltd. It shows
about the profits and other kinds of cash securities both in consolidated and standalone
conditions are indicated.
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Mukesh Ambani has been leader that has shown exemplary performance in different
leadership areas has helped in making Reliance one of the leaders in different industries.
There is increase in the growth and revenue of the firm. His risk taking ability and strategy
making power has direct impact on the way Reliance has shown as exceptional growth. This
company’s performance can be evaluated on the basis of the growth of Reliance in terms of
profits and revenue and his emphasis on sticking to the cultural aspects of the company while
making his decisions.

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