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T
he book, “Get High: How to coach
yourself
for
high
performance in your work,”
authored by Ms Sangeetha Shankaran Sumesh was launched at Madras Management Association on 28 October 2020. Mr Anil Srinivasan, musician and educator, Mr V S Parthasarathy, President and Board Member at Mahindra & Mahindra, Ms Pavitra Singh, CHRO, PepsiCo India, and Mr Prakash Iyer, a leadership trainer, were the panellists. Moderating the panel discussion, the author of the book Ms Sangeetha
Sumesh
posed
many
interesting questions to the panellists and they answered all of them. They also took a lot of questions posed by the online audience. Excerpts from the panel discussion: What are the characteristics of a high performance business? Mr V S Parthasarathy: If someone has vision, passion, tension, attention and immersion, he / she can be a great leader and a high performer. The leader must have a clear vision and passion for success. He needs tension, as he has to aim for stretchgoals. He should have attention for details. He must have maturity and be humble. A high performing organisation must be marked by five words and they are: Yield, Climb, Unmix, Fable and Prime. Yield is about the results—the ROI, 53
DECEMBER 2020
