Microsoft Executive Summit 2006

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Microsoft Executive Summit 2006

• Neelam Dhawan,
• Managing Director, Microsoft India

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Welcome to Amchi Mumbai!

• Why Mumbai
• Financial capital
• One-sided MES score line (Goa 3 1 Mumbai)
• Needs a boost after the Wankhede Test
• Break (for us) from the Delhi-Gurgaon commute
• May meet a Bollywood star
• Direct flights from everywhere (were you at Agra?)

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History of MES
Crash
Survival
Bubble
Boom
Recovery
Growth
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People Drive BusinessOutcomes
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Most discussions of decision making assume that
only senior executives make decisions or that
only senior executives decisions matter. This is
a dangerous mistake. Peter F. Drucker
Toyota encourages every worker, no matter how
far down the production line, to consider himself
a knowledge worker and to think creatively about
improving his particular corner of the
organization. Takis Athanasopoulos, Toyota
Motor Europe
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People Right Tools Business Success