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months to do Program for Global Leadership. After this good I can’t sail properly. Optimistic says that
I again joined RIL as my earlier boss called me back. everything will be fine after this. But a Practical Person
They trained me on pipeline as they wanted to put me will adjust the wheel and sail faster! That is what I want
on project of 1400km pipeline between baruch and you to learn. Risks are to be adjusted in such a way that
Kakinada. After doing this project I was VP of C&P at you gain from those, which is the most important part
Reliance. Along with that I was also doing Reliance which I taught you.
mobile roll out& Reliance petroleum retail. And now I
What will be your advice to students and
am in TCS.
professionals in early stages of their career to
You are linked with VJTIPM for last 3 years, what become a project manager?
you would say about the course and the Project You have to be a Practical person to be a good Project
Management Industry? Manager. You have to be open minded. Project is
A: You people are my children guys. I have always Project. Don’t categorize it as electrical or mechanical.
treated you like that. I know you all have come as raw Don’t put yourself into a Silone. It’s a saying “Pessimist
and I told you that it is not enough; you have to see complains about the wind. Optimistic thinks there is a
practical aspects of everything. So I brought that to you. good part as you reach the shore. But a practical guy
Especially in the project which you worked on, I taught adjusts the wheel to sail faster.”
you how to deliver it. Pessimistic says weather is not

Interviewed by Reshma Bandekar and Trishala Zende

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