Wipro’s way

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The importance Wipro assigns to leadership
development goes back many
decades to its early years when it was a
relatively unknown company. Even at
that time, Wipro went to the best college
campuses to recruit. In fact, many members
of the company’s top management
team today are from those campuses.
If leadership was important then, it is
even more so in the times ahead. Recent
economic trends have shown how everything
can change abruptly and pervasively,
in the twinkling of an eye. Leaders
have to front-end the change.



Articulating what we mean by leadership
The biggest problem with a concept
such as leadership is that it can mean so
many things to so many people. There is
a strong temptation to attribute all possible
good qualities one can think of and
come out with hundreds of qualities, similar
to a film hero! Sometimes, these
include qualities that are ‘irreconcilable
opposites’ such as a strong aggressive
leader who chews competition,