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: manufacturing and operations for the first major diversification into commercial vehicles by the Eicher group in collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors of Japan and later became its managing director. Further roles and promotions saw him moving back to the group headquarters in 1998. After another two years, he was appointed the Group chairman and CEO. After Siddhartha Lal took over as the new CEO for Eicher Motors, this management veteran has now moved on to the role of the chairman. He is no longer as hands on as a CEO needs to be and is more concerned with charting the future growth strategy and vision for the group. One of the very first graduates from IIM Ahmedabad, this management graduate has indeed come a long way. But has he changed somewhat in the journey. “I have always had the willingness to learn something new, so that has not changed. I have also been a systematic person. So in that sense, I have not changed much. However, experience does ring in perspective. And I have gained from the same,” he says.
Sandilya also says that he used to be a perfectionist earlier and was too focused on achieving perfection. “I still strive for it but have learnt that one should not get too lost in perfection. If you are too focused on detail, you might miss on things that are important,” he says.
So what does he look for in people when he hires them now? “Attitude is important. One must have a positive attitude to learn. Someone arrogant is not desirable as one needs to be able to work in a team. Though you might be hired at a senior position, one man cannot run the show. He needs to be a team person,” says Sandilya. And what is his take on office politics, something that he must have encountered on his way up the corporate ladder and must be seeing now as he leads the organisation? “I have zero tolerance for office politics. It just spreads negative vibes in the organisation. We actively discourage it in our offices,” he says. He adds that he did indeed encounter a lot of office politics in his career but handled it with positive manipulation. “One can get his views across in the right way by discussing it with people. This too is an approach we promote in Eicher,” he says. The group held...
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