Speakers:
Zia Mody,Founder & Senior Partner AZB & Partners
Rama Bijapurkar, Author, Market Strategist
Session Highlights:
- Self Motivation: Zia started of initially with the challenges that women face in continuing their job after their marriage or after having their first kid. Self-Motivation is the single most important factor in facing these challenges. If you think you can, you will.
- Gender Bias: It is a tendency in women themselves for ‘Gender biases’. By this I mean that women themselves feel inferior to men at work place. Initially I felt the same. This is where self-motivation is important. Your inner confidence must be so strong, as to ward off any inferiority complex.
- Marriage: After marriage, make your ‘Mother-In-law’ your biggest partner in success. Work it out with her. I did. The biggest reason for fights at home is ‘Stress’. Try to make her life comfortable. Remember that inclusion of the inner world around yourself is the most important factor for organizational success. You have to be equally involved at home as well as work.
- Most important lesson from business: Always take your customer along while delivering a service. Keep him in the loop always.
- The decision of partnering in business: In 1994-95, it was an opportunistic decision. There was a proposal to team up with an international law firm. To me partnership is more of heart and less of head. Its more about open mindedness and acceptance of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. In the advent of confusion always be frank.
- How do you want to see your firm in the next 10 years: I want it to be an ‘Institutionalized Law Firm’. It should be process oriented and not people oriented. Eventually I want to scale up. For scalability, I think youth of the company should be given responsibility. Empower youngsters with the clients trust. Success will follow.
- Contributed by Abhishek Chande & Avishek Neogi
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