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Characteristics of a Role
Model

Who is a role model?

Role Models are people who others imitate,

emulate or look to for guidance.

 Ratan Tata is the most prominent

Indian leader whose inner values and

outer actions demonstrate an evolved
higher level of responsible leadership
The purpose statement of Tata says

"At the Tata group we are committed

to improving the quality of life of the
communities we serve".
Triple bottom lineof TATA
"P&L Account -corporate profit
People Account care for people inside

and outside the organization

Planet Account - environmentally and
socially responsible

 Indra Nooyi, another ofForbes100 Most Powerful Women, has

not only led her company to record financial results but is

making strides to move PepsiCo in a healthier direction,
leading the courageous charge to shed traditional fast food
properties and to replace them with initiatives to supply
healthier foods.
She is deeply caring and committed as a senior executive. She
is a fun-loving executive as wellshe played lead guitar for an
all-woman rock band in college, loved to play cricket, and is
known to sing karaoke and perform at corporate gatherings to
this day. Yes, I have been known to relate to her fun-loving
spirit as a senior executive as well.

 Liver transplant recipient, cancer survivor, and high-tech

visionary, Steve Jobs returned to Apple after a six-month

absence. Because of his commitment to excellence, detail, and
design, Apple ran smoothly in his absence and finally answered
the question, "Where would Apple be without Steve Jobs?"
Answer: "At the top of its game."

Steve Jobs
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 Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman

Gates has moved to full-time work at

the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
applying his sizable business and
team-building acumen to fighting
infectious diseases, improving
farming and food supply in the
developing world, and upgrading
education for children in the U.S.
Gates is inspiring other business
leaders to adopt his form of kinder
capitalism; most notably Warren
Buffett.

Bill Gates
Co-Chair and Trustee, the
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Gates Foundation

Creative
A pioneer in Internet commerce, Bezos

continues to inspire young entrepreneurs with

his creative ideas. His brainchild is Amazon's
Kindle, an electronic book reader which
revolutionizes the way readers acquire books
and other print media.
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon.com

 At the age of 11, Yousafzai was writing under a pseudonym for

the BBC, detailing what it's like to live under Taliban rule. In
2009, the New York Times filmed a documentary about her life.
Today, as a 16-year-old, Yousafzai is an influential
communicator and education activist. In Oct. 2012, she was
shot in the back of the headby Taliban gunmen, but survived
the assassination attempt.
Yousafzai was the recipient of
the UN 2013 Human Rights Prize
and is the youngest person to have
ever been a Nobel Prize nominee.

Malala Yousafzai, education activist

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Thank You

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