graduate ages and my graduate is out
here both fool that would become
undergraduate degree in mathematics and
then NCA but the interesting part about
it and what I’m going to tell you today
is that the most of what I learned from
this campus was not inside the glasses
the most that I learned about and what
was useful to me in my life was outside
the classroom then they tell Scott there
was many there were many great teachers
out there in many distinct things but
what I had to regard as priceless was
the diversity of people I met from the
arts department from the engineering
department from different departments
somebody who thought they were theatre
which is all more public speaking is
about speaking is about inspiring is
what that is known is about Tintin who’s
now in your department party of theater
there are friends who taught me about
philosophy about economics about
different things
melanda the can she might talk to me
about multitasking that’s what he does
you should see him in action so what I
want to talk to you about is again
listen I don’t manage my place in Saigon
but I did learn them in a management
school or you know with professors so
for 17 years of working in various
sports and media businesses I found my
way in the Kolkata Knight Riders and
over the next seven years the things I
learnt about management and leadership
out there are very very very different
from what we learn in textbooks but I
think in many ways those were the most
meaningful management lessons I have
learned in my life so let’s start with
where we started off and I was very
lucky because for many people the curve
goes up and down I was really lucky
because when we started off we were
right at the world and the Kolkata
Knight Riders the first CEOs had the
worst record of any team in the idea
and we have many things that we did the
first thing we learnt is you can’t have
more than one captain unity and that’s
something that we learn that you know
this whole business of crew captain for
captain’s captain to the first six overs
maybe or the capsule to the dressing
room and the captain York site does not
work you need one leader one voice and
one person to booties for that’s lesson
number one we don’t and we don’t be
really really hard with the second thing
we don’t it this is slightly one once
the truth is that just a great player
cannot help you win championships
the what happens when you have just a
great player but if that player is not
thinking about the team and a classic
example is one of the most destructive
220 batsmen ill ever was a part of the
Kolkata Knight Riders but if he did not
give us a culture of winning if he was
not dead to inspire people in the
dressing room then no matter what he
doesn’t appeal he cannot make your
organization win the championship which
is why if you look at his career over
the last 10 years that great layer have
never won an ideal life and it would be
something and the third thing that we
learned out there it was extremely
extremely important was to make people
form the best you need to give their
time you need to give them the feeling
of confidence in them and one of the
things that we used to do very badly
wrong in the first two years is we would
pick players and Comp them at the last
minute 15 minutes half an hour before
playing up they were suddenly changed
for another day and what did he do
not only didn’t in fact that was he didn
t he impacted every other year because
he thought that even have voted in the
tournament playing the captain could
change me in the very last minute all
things that don’t work when you’re
trying to build a successful team and a
successful match so those are things
that I don’t that you can’t do I think
let’s come on to the slightly happier
of things that we learn to do and learn
to do way so I’d start off with
something with any twisting story from
what happened in 2011 in 2011 people
remember will go to the earth of the
World Cup you know just on the wake up
and to about there’s Yusuf Pathan
and got them to be a part of that team
so literally because the World Cup was a
given from other countries players were
coming together literally three days
before the tournament started now what
does that mean think about it in typical
business parlance the team that you want
to get together and put together and
work with making a temperature I’m
literally shaking hands with each other
48 hours before it starts so the
question is they’re different people
people from seven different countries
even the Indians half of them don’t each
other some different there is some
distinctive they call some this thing
over other different states different
people different levels of skill and
everything else a good you have two days
to get together become a team and start
Obama so I’ll put stood up go to the man
called dad work more and he has quotes
more countries than anyone the East
African his quotes Pakistan is put stood
on top his quotes Bangladesh is puts in
public and you go through this big Pro
videos National Academy
win Sweden and he won a memorable World
Cup in 1996 which in many ways change
the way to do sleep and you know what he
said he walked into this dressing room a
holy spirit was sitting there what here
I was I put it on this card and he said
something and I’m reading for this birth
of it and here’s a great quote I know I
know he is there what is he going to
tell this this he stops and he says this
is food is before me talk specific
technical in gay became the only message
I had for you is I want every player why
we are fielding to run between overs
let’s put in I got tetanus a 12-episode
I bought some pearl of wisdom will come
out in latinos and stand over the next
couple of days I began to think about
what he actually said so what happens
when you run between over to think that
the first thing is you have a commitment
with this group thickness that means
even 18 ovals are over it slightly on
the ground you’re really tired you still
have the energy to run it’s very
important that means the first thing
you’re making clear to is a commitment
to fitness like every there has to be
thing every player has to be there to
perform at the right the second thing
which is even more important than that
is try the knee with your head down you
can’t it’s very difficult to run because
you don’t need any time you’re scared of
colliding in something you can walk with
your return but you can’t run the
character and you know why that is
important I did because when you are
fielding United Salomon every once in a
while you wanna go for 30 runs 20 runs
25 runs won this game I believe it is
going to get old and smashes it is bound
to happen but you know what happens a
bullet is born but waited on the end you
know he’s nearly savage the woolie and
getting to that candidate is running up
and running you know it just there’s the
batsman that hey this team is not going
to give up I may have won this over for
this team is going to come back and
really gonna fight with me every next
week so when you have a team that runs
between overs the packing side never
thinks that a record they always think
wow I’ve given a good front for next or
they could come back it and that’s
extremely important good to very simple
things
he actually redefined the way that he
was laying but he defined that to be the
way today so that was the first thing
that I done one simple mantra that would
find the disparate group of people
together and make the player collimation
as one the second thing you did and
that’s even more subtly came to us much
much later
we had a real conundrum losing this son
he’s a great player now the one thing
that one window see miss LA has okay
with you know try the 3ds all of them
don’t know the spelling of the word
penis so now the question is one little
Easter Egg well you get runs you get out
and everyone else would say oh this log
and gives it a window what it with their
meters but you know he gives it away
every time you enclose that in a good
position the knee gets up that work is
completed
he says Missy and that part is called no
game is hitting the wall in Egypt it
didn’t much interactive I would only
have a problem when you play tentative
no problem so and then he related to us
a great story about the 1996 World Cup
when in 1996 you know your time put
together the student the team there was
this player called – career in late 1995
who was a spinner who’s too bad at
number step 9
and then what more just notice that
Jake’s Kubiak could hit the ball very
hard and you know what he’s to take this
with them he’s to say go if you get out
for five innings hitting hard and you
know your part or whatever it doesn’t
matter
I will realize new only when you’re
tainted exactly the same thing it would
this time say go out there and pick the
particle that’s what that’s lower loads
lower division so this one knew that as
long as he followed those instructions
the code would never happen would never
drop in for a point because his job was
to do what he did next
classical management pallets but I
learned it from critical the second
thing he taught me that’s also very
interesting one was first I was what
trustee will talk about job he starts
the hill he does he does now the truth
of it is what is really trust and I will
give you a very good example about trust
words liquidity
you ever seen a batting in team batting
what is the rule of quali paradigm
so very simple food and the batsman Bowl
is that side the moment the ball is
behind the wicked is the call of the
nonce title because I can’t see the
moment it’s a head of the wicket it’s a
call the person in paddy that’s how all
cricket calling attacks the convention
of cricket one simple enough
now let me genuine suppose I am bending
over the ball is hit up it would be
intuitive and the wexford I turned round
and said wrong side this is run he
instead of running if I turn around and
look back see where the ball is and they
decide to run or not run it takes half a
second between 0.5 and forms ranging
because what am i doing I am not
trusting his judgment I am saying no I
don’t believe you let me check for
myself
if the ball is on the leg side actually
takes about a second to do the lower
that is where the bones now every IEP
team has or 50 to 20 hours in a t20
season because that’s all you know
that’s a good beginner that’s overcoming
that more than half of them are by less
than 0.5 that means if players learn to
trust the person on the other side
making the call and don’t spend that
extra of a second or second second
guessing great all they’re almost half
the numbers you have very simple all we
talk about every organisation talks
about trust but this is the sense of
trust
I’ll give you a very I take that example
for the knee put it in your working life
have you all sent emails when you’re
especially working with people see my
emails or in Providence cover your
backside in is you know you send it to
so you know instead of being sure I send
it to you why because I don’t want to
make sure that in every want to see I
don’t actually send it only to the
people who need it what happens all of
us get up Oh
we don’t need to read and our systems
are go
why because I don’t trust that the
organization will do it right let me
play safe take it anyway
so simple things like trust are the
basics of the organization’s of it so
this is run out is exactly example of
how on a cricket field then I feel thing
you learn verges the other thing is you
know very interesting is when the ball
was high here and I remember a
particular example of it which was that
in the fifth of May 2012 and here
playing moon is playing Kolkata in
Kolkata and you can see them start
stadium above it is perfect but how
could it possibly the short of Gandhi’s
playing to the funniest and the entire
how this both sides and you know what
happened and you’re given a good
position and then I’ll give you my two
three sixes and over the next over
curved boundaries padding and ready
market was and followed visit this
mighty back and it goes so high up there
that at least widening the take care
team click on a corner for one guy said
my name is equal to them and you know
why I caches are more difficult in
detective because I cactus give you an
opportunity to ponder on the
consequences of failure
and came down and we but the thing about
it was where does it come into
management we had created a team where
one thing to win the fear of being the
urge to win was higher than the negroid
defeat so the person said my team is the
kind of people trust me when drop it
nobody will have a problem but if I
don’t go for it they will have a problem
so we have created a team culture where
the person will be incentivized
and I can tell you if you watch internet
to preview any cricket you soon you need
nobody is taking the responsibility and
that’s why you are in equals in liquor
I’m actually happier because it is
colliding on the field because of bad
communication not that it’s a public
thing with bad communication then two
players lining up in both not 555
because that is a technical organization
of an organisation which people have not
learned the trust each other thing I
don’t want to take it with me is I drop
it I repeat and that is he said when you
create a team where that single ball
like 50/50 ball is there and your guy
goes for it
Goodell in doing that he might drop it
that’s when you created organisation
that means persistent so these are
important things or they are very very
simple basic management term which come
to life magis out there on the cricket
read but come to life in things we do
there are so many place is exactly the
same grain management when you say I
don’t want to try that product because I
might fail and that might get me to
cover with my bosses instead of saying
you know what if I succeed to be really
good for the top so when you have
fostered a culture of people willing to
take me to do
for the sake of the organisation you
foster that time today and what is the
other thing I don’t the single most
important other thing I done was
something to talk to me by a man called
shot well that was to take off take
every night and you’ve just gone back
and you’re playing in diner lot and
ligaments are as live and money would I
create Kolkata Knight Riders and then
cross wounded runs and if they come back
into the dressing room and they’re
changing and you would think that the
dressing room people are saying oh
what’s gonna happen now you have to go
to back and shock it comes back it says
I know now gave it away so I would you
University asked him why that’s we’re
pitching me to just put two hundred
amperes so this one’s on says because it
no doubt it
and he was like because what happens is
he 14 is chasing between 150 to 170 180
you use a slip a bit careful Linux
actually should I go for it a little bit
later or should I x-ray the beginning
then would I take it they have all sorts
of doubts in your head once you reach
200 and you’re caving 200 you have
nothing to look at you have to go who is
it come on and that’s exactly what we
did be successful this year is down
target more than 200 transition I feel
final just because we knew and we
believe and they will fall down I and if
that I believe you kept what I learned
out there that single one thing take a
target look at it and once you decided
to go for it don’t take a [Applause]