It's definitely a herculian task to change the mind set of sufficient number of people in a conglomorate of public sector labs.And hats of to Raghunath Anant Mashelkar for that.I feel that this shows that a few people with unbelievable endurance and patience do and undo things in any organisation. I also feel that the whole article is written qulitatively.I would prefer details of two things.The changes that happened, in numbers alongwith the people and the situations that helped him.
A CEO post is very resposible post so a good CEO should be experienced and qualified key stone who upholds the organisation with sincerity and efiicentily...he/she has good management prospects ...he should be powerful to accept any challenge and should be smart worker...
Except for Mashelkar himself and few chelas, no one in CSIR believes it has benefited significantly from Mashelkar. Despite Mashelkar's being one of the longest reigns. He is a good man, one of the better men, but please done deify him. He is very very ordinary. Period. History will show you how quickly he will be forgotten.
Just try making Homi Bhabha or Vikram Sarabhai or Satish Dhawan or Abdul Kalam disappear! They never will. History will remember their contributions, even if journalists prefer others.
Many good messages in the article. The biggest drawback - Too much "ME' and "I". may be a personality issue , but it gets hammered to readers' brains constantly
I know the man! A reallly good article on the great man!!
The best part from the article-
"At National Chemical Laboratory, I tried to create that ambition by making people stretch. I made them believe in themselves, made them realise their potential, because I always believe that our potential is always higher than where we actually are."
I was amazed when I first entered NCL. Earlied I never believed that government can provide such an excellent research environment.
