The Master's Voice: Recent Episodes
Alok Kumar
The Master’s Voice is an experimental podcast. Here, we will be talking about people strategies for scaling up startups and SMBs. We will cover topics like organization building, hiring, building and developing team, leadership, culture and so on.
The Master's Voice with Murali Maddala, Asia Pacific Regional Leader, Technology Services, Johnson & Johnson.
Our today’s guest is from a different world. A different planet! And, the reason I say he is from a different world, is because, he is from a large, multinational organization unlike other guests so far on this podcast.
Murali is the Asia Pacific, Regional Leader for the Technology Services team at a wonderful organization called, Johnson & Johnson where he has been for the last 11+ years. And, he is based out in Singapore.
Before J&J, Murali has been with organizations like Motorola, Dell Technologies, and Netkraft, where he built the team from scratch and grew to several hundred. He built delivery centers, transitioned technology processes from different countries, and created centers of excellence.
Murali is one of those leaders whom I really admire and respect a lot. Humble, caring, empathetic, people centric, and goal-driven are the adjectives that come to my mind when I talk of him. He always sets a high bar for himself, supports and develops his team, and believes in driving accountability. A wonderful leader to work with!
In this episode, I try to bring out some of his methods, experiences, learnings, advice on scaling, leadership, leading people, and other people challenges that startup founders, leaders, and other professionals may find useful.
The Master's Voice with Arvind Krishnan, Founder, CEO The Fuller Life, an employee wellbeing and engagement company.
TFL works with some of the leading organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, HP, Kotak, ITC, and Ford to help them manage their employee wellbeing and engagement initiatives and they have been doing this since 2001.
Apart from running corporate well-being and engagement initiatives, TFL also organizes India’s some of the greatest running events, Kaveri Trail Marathon or KTM as popularly known in the running fraternity, Bangalore Ultra, and Urban Stampede – which is corporate India’s favourite race for beginners. And these races are organized through their very well-known brand ‘Runners for Life’.
Arvind shares some of his thoughts, views, suggestions on building an organization, value and the importance of culture in an organization, leading and developing people, and mistakes to avoid.
Welcome to another episode of The Master’s Voice. And, we have another successful serial entrepreneur in this episode.
Our today’s guest calls himself an accidental entrepreneur! And, has accidentally founded and scaled two successful start-ups -- Scripbox and Probe Information Services (both well-funded by leading VCs in the world).
I am delighted to have Atul Shinghal on The Master’s Voice!
In his previous life as a “corporateur”, if that is a word, Atul held leadership positions at Coats Viyella, Standard Chartered, Old Mutual, and Capital One. He spent over 15+ years in building businesses in South Africa, UK, and India and has expertise and experience in taking companies from 10 to 100 and beyond.
After 2 stints in building new businesses as an intrapreneur, Atul started his entrepreneurship journey with Probe Information Services in 2010. Probe is now the leading provider on Corporate Information in India. Later, in 2012 he founded Scripbox.
He started Scripbox as he felt strongly that India deserved better than what was on offer for the common investor. You can learn more about Scripbox by visiting their site -- www. scripbox.com
Atul is an alumnus of Mayo College, IIT Madras, and IIM Bangalore.
He is passionate about entrepreneurship and actively mentors a number of start-ups, including being involved with NSRCEL. He is also a regular speaker at various Fintech and entrepreneurship forums.
Atul is a straightforward and direct speaker, and I had a great time talking to him and learn some very simple, practical, and actionable inputs on building an organization, the importance of culture, how to hire, how to manage and develop people, and how to take care of all these things to scale up your startup.
In this latest episode, listen to Shailesh talk about the importance of culture, his people management philosophy, people and organizational challenges that growing startups face, role of HR in a growing startup, and when to hire an HR, a few important advice to people managers and Founders/CEOs as their startup grows!
Listen and enjoy the podcast.
In this segmented episode, we share the compilation of advice from our previous guests: Samir Chaudhary, Saumil Majmudar, Col.Naresh Sinha, and Jayaram Krishnan (JK). These advise are to the first time people managers on managing people and to the founders and senior leaders on the importance of building and developing team, organization, and other people practices as they grow their organization from #30To300. Speakers are in this order: Samir, Saumil, Col. Naresh Sinha, JK.
Jayaram Krishnan, better known as JK, founded Kestone Integrated Marketing Services – events and integrated marketing services company back in 1997 and exited it profitably after about a decade of organic growth. Kestone IMS was acquired by Career Launcher in 2009.
JK isn’t just a successful entrepreneur; he is a polymath, a terrific storyteller, management guru, nature conservationist, artist, and above all a great person!
In this episode listen to JK talk about entrepreneurship, his journey as an entrepreneur, what does building an organization means, how do you inspire people, develop team, and the role of HR in a startup.
Jayaram Krishnan, better known as JK, founded Kestone Integrated Marketing Services – events and integrated marketing services company back in 1997 and exited it profitably after about a decade of organic growth. Kestone IMS was acquired by Career Launcher in 2009.
JK isn’t just a successful entrepreneur; he is a polymath, a terrific storyteller, management guru, nature conservationist, artist, and above all a great person!
In this episode listen to JK talk about entrepreneurship, his journey as an entrepreneur, what does building an organization means, how do you inspire people, develop team, and the role of HR in a startup.
Listen to Col. Sinha talk about leadership, managing people, developing teams, and what organizations can learn from the cradle of leadership -- Indian defence forces’ leadership and people management values that will help them scale stronger and better.
Listen to Saumil talk about: the changing needs of a growing organization, hiring, the undiscussables, manager's job, role of HR, advice to first-time people managers, and advice to Founders/CEOs, the value of quiet time, and lot more.
Listen to Samir talk about: the changing needs of a growing organization, hiring, basic tenet of managing people, role of HR, value of effort and outcome, advice to first-time people managers, advice to Founders/CEOs, and lot more.