ET Awards 2009: For Corporate Excellence
ET Awards 2009: For Corporate Excellence
It was business, brand and sheer excellence yesterday as 400 CEO’s and Ministers came together under one roof for the 11th ET awards in Mumbai on 10th Jan,2010.
Magical moments that would rarely be accessible to corporate or the common eye, like Mr.Mukesh Ambani shaking hands with his nephew Jai Anmol (Mr.Anil Ambani’s elder son), corporate magic and powerful quotes freely flowing from Mr.Ram Charan himself coupled with notable remarks from Mr. Nitish Kumar, Mr. Anand Mahindra and the Indian cinema’s superstar Mr.Aamir Khan, caught the sight of millions across the globe.
ET Award Winners 2009:
- Economic Times’ Policy Change Agent of the Year 2009, for his outstanding work in poverty alleviation and rural employment – Policy Change Agent of the year: Jean Dreze, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
- Business Leader of the year: Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group
- Business Woman of the year: Vinita Bali, Britannia Industries
- Entrepreneur of the year: GVK Reddy, GVK Group
- Global Indian of the year: Ram Charan, Management Guru
- Business Reformer of the year: Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar state
- Company of the year: Hero Honda:Truly a hero as they spent more to fight a slowdown when most cut back and emerged victorious with newer models, larger profits and greater reach across.
- Emerging Company of the year: Idea Cellular , their new ideas well, transformed them to a much stronger and focused organization, ‘what an idea sirji?’
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Keshub Mahindra, Founder, Mahindra & Mahindra
- Corporate Citizen of the year: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Few very notable quotes:
Mr.Ram Charan: He answered the business leader’s queries and concerns and pumped up more hope as he quoted “The financial structure of the world remains fragile, US has begun preferring India over China”. His views on the transforming role of a sole owner of a small or medium size business to a CEO was worth listening to. He mentioned that “transformation of an owner to a CEO must happen if he or she is wanting to give more than just the 24 hours available to listen, take and make decisions for business. Giving the power to someone else to decide is an important and difficult but essential role that one (owner of medium size business) might opt for in order to be able to “MULTIPLY” his work speed and share and shoulder the responsibility from being an individual and look at profits and growth from an organization’s point of view”.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee put forth the 2020 blueprint as he quoted “Policies must reach out to all especially to poor, benefits must be seen by all people and right to education and food must be available to all”.
Mr. Aamir Khan wowed the audience with thoughts on education and lateral thinking. He quoted, “Inclusion should start from childhood and schools should admit children with disabilities”.
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Thanks to ET awards 2009 for a memorable mega event with corporate flair and panache.
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