MBA401 - People, Culture, and Leadership: Mukesh Ambani Presentation

This presentation analyzes the leadership of Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd. It explores two key factors contributing to his success: his risk-taking ability and his efficient strategy-making skills. The presentation identifies two key ways to measure his effectiveness: the company's growth, focusing on profit and revenue, and his emphasis on organizational culture. It highlights how his performance has significantly contributed to Reliance Industries' success, emphasizing his ability to identify profitable ventures and his focus on long-term strategies. The presentation also references several academic sources to support its analysis, including articles and journals that examine the impact of his leadership on the company's performance and the Indian telecom industry.

PEOPLE CULTURE AND
CONTEMPORARY
LEADERSHIP
MUKESH AMBANI

Introduction
 Leadership plays a critical role in the development
of the organisation. This is also because of the
fact that there are various areas where leaders
have their greater responsibility (Kaur, 2018).
 Several factors have impact on making leadership
successful and hence ultimately making the
company successful.
 Their effectiveness can be measured in different
types of ways and it is essential to measure this
effectiveness as it allows an organisation to
evaluate their success and the chances of success
of the organisation.

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 Leadership has a direct impact on the
performance of the organisation and it is
due to this that the role of the leaders in
the organisations becomes highly critical
(Dhingra and Aggarwal, 2014).
 Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian
businessman. He is the chairman,
managing director and biggest
shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.

Leader “Mukesh Ambani”
 This ppt will provide details
about Mukesh Dhrubhai
Ambani who is the managing
director, chairman and the
largest stakeholder of the
Reliance Industries Ltd.
 He is Asia’s richest person and
his achievements include
becoming the first member to
be on the board of Bank of
America.
 From sports to supporting CSR
initiatives of the company, this
firm has been successful in his
business ventures.

Background of the
company
 Reliance Industries Ltd. is in the
business of many things such as
textile, telecommunication,
energy, natural resources, retail,
textile and petrochemicals.
 It is one of the most profitable
companies in India.
 It was a parental business which
Mukesh Ambani took it to
another level.
 It is having more than 194,000
employees and their training
program ensures that they have
better skills to deal with their
operations (Arora and Gupta,
2011).

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Two key factors
Among the several factors that makes a leader
successful and unsuccessful. The two factors are:
Risk taking ability
 Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani has superb ability of
taking risks irrespective of whether the business
will be successful or not.
 It is his risk taking ability that has helped him in
crossing borders and going into the business of
different kinds.
 He is known for making investments first and then
making it successful with his leadership skills
(LeRoux and Wright, 2010).

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Efficient strategy Maker
 One of the prime reasons why Reliance Industries Ltd.
become successful is that Mukesh Ambani is known
for making strategies that is different from their rivals
and this has helped him in making the company
successful.
 His is known for his long term strategies which might
not be successful in the starting phase but it is highly
successful in the long run.
 His strategies are the reflection of the companies that
are able to rediscover the problems of the people and
accordingly they make products that could help them
in becoming the market leader (Haq, 2017).

Two key ways to measure
effectiveness
There are different ways of measuring
the effectiveness of any leader.
Among these two major factors that
will be described in this PPT. are:
Growth of the company
 If the company’s growth rate is in the
positive direction then it can be said that
growth of the company is positive.
 Profit growth and revenue growth are an
excellent way of defining the growth rate
of the company.
 Reliance Industries second quarter of 2019
profit has reached to 18% to a new record
of Rs. 11,262 crore which is more than
expected which was very much higher than
what it was a year ago (Kohlrieser,
2011).

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Emphasis on culture in operations
 He is known for emphasising on culture
in the time when the business
environment is very risky.
 Ethics related problems can be a
challenge for the company in the long
term and he has been making strategies
that are ethical and ensures sustainable
development of the company.
 He is known for communicating with all
his stakeholders on the regular basis.
This is critical for achieving the desired
benefits from their business. In the time
when communication is a challenge for
most of the companies this is the major
problem that they had to face.
 He has been emphasizing on the culture
of the organisation especially when he is
making expansion in the new business
areas (Chatterjee, 2010).

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Performance contributed in the success of the organisation
 He has used his risk taking
ability and development
approach in the success of
the organisation.
 It is his performance that
has made reliance one of
the leaders in which ever
industry he is operating
(Vennila, 2017).
 Mukesh Ambani always eyes
on buying the ventures that
gives higher profits and
selling the ones that does
not give the same.