Andhra Pradesh

Have vision beyond normal reach: Ranjana

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Meeting of minds: Andhra Bank Chairman and Managing Director K. Ramakrishnan having a word with Andhra University Vice Chancellor L. Venugopal Reddy as Vigilance Commissioner Ranjana Kumar watches on at the Andhra Bank Endowment Lecture in Visakhapatnam on Friday.–

VISAKHAPATNAM: An organisation should harness its human resources to achieve a vision that “must be beyond normal reach but not an impossible dream.” The management should incorporate the risk factors while working out its strategy and have plans to counter them, said Central Vigilance Commissioner Ranjana Kumar on Friday.

Delivering the Andhra Bank endowment lecture “betting on human potential…vital need for success of an organisation”, under the auspices of the Centre for Banking Studies and Research (CBSR) of Andhra University, she said the vision should be ambitious to set a challenge for the team so that the team springs into action with zeal and steadfastness. The vision should be a turbo-charger that ignites the combined enthusiasm of the team. It is not merely setting the vision that is important; but regular follow-up and frequent review of the progress or achievement vis-À-vis the vision, that is more important.

If the employees of an organisation did their duty well unattached to personal gains and worked constantly then they would reach the excellence and the organisation should have persons who could anticipate the future in this age of Internet, information technology and e-governance and work out methodologies to face it. Stressing the need for maintaining team spirit in the organisation, she quipped: “a team always outperforms an individual.”

On the need for a strong leadership that should go like a knife on the butter, Ms. Ranjana Kumar said motivation of the employees by the leader is very important as if a person feels that his potential has been harnessed fully by the management then he would show results, which would benefit both the organisation and the individual employee. The team leaders should set a target to turn the non-performers into performers and thus create an environment of growth. “Quality and timely decision” are very important during such decision taking, she said.

Andhra Bank Chairman and Managing Director K. Ramakrishnan accepted Andhra University Vice-Chancellor L. Venugopala Reddy’s request in the meeting seeking assistance to set up Andhra Bank Institute of Business Management in the university campus here to provide management education. The VC also announced that Mr. Ramakrishnan would take classes in the AU commerce department as a visiting Fellow. AU College of Arts and Commerce Principal J.V. Prabhakara Rao, Commerce HoD D. Prabhakara Rao and CBSR Director B. Appa Rao participated.

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