Raghunath Mashelkar
President GRA, Chairman, National Innovation Foundation, Ex DG, CSIR, President, INSA, Passionate about Inclusive Innovation, More from Less for More People
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Raghunath Mashelkar
“Privileged to write the preface for this inspiring & insightful book. It shows how to navigate rapid disruption in the VUCA world. How to lead by creating a new organisational framework & new leadership approach. Must read book https://t.co/eOWvVybci1 https://t.co/7HLyPqZ5Jo” (from X)
Aravind Chinchure(you?)
How do we design a new-age organisation and make it agile, responsive and resilient to lead in the fourth industrial revolution? What leadership approach enables leaders to continue to innovate irrespective of the complexities of the situation? Through expansive and insightful real-life case studies, Aravind cleverly outlines the answers to these questions and offers a breakthrough framework for the organisations to win in the new age.
Recommended by Raghunath Mashelkar
“Stepped down as Chairman of @nifindia Served it for 18 years with great leadership of @anilgb Many many special moments... Very special was when outgoing President Mukherjee chose to have his very last formal act as release of book on grassroots #innovation https://t.co/PGbemGEIPj” (from X)
A moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Professor Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding social and ethical movement the Honey Bee Network bringing together and elevating thousands of grassroots innovators. For over two decades, Professor Gupta has travelled through rural lands unearthing innovations by the ranks from the famed Miticool refrigerator to the footbridge of Meghalaya. He insists that to fight the largest and most persistent problems of the world we must eschew expensive research labs and instead, look towards ordinary folk. Innovation that oft-flung around word is stripped to its core in this book. Poignant and personal, Grassroots Innovations is an important treatise from a social crusader of our time.