12th Operation Meet

20th to 22nd May 2013

Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Generation
Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Generation

External challenges
Internal Challenges
Challenges arising from leadership itself
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External challenges
Outside our business environment
Advent of Digital photography leading to
closure of photo film industry

Expect the unexpected

Continues scanning of business environment

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External challenges

Unexpected increase of input cost

Poor off take /Schedule
Fuel availability
Power companies coming out with better
commercial terms
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External challenges

Stricter norms
Delay in Environmental clearances
Delay in expansion programs
Shrinking market space
International developments
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Internal challenges

Equipment
Expertise
Expense
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Internal challenges

Equipment
Technology,
Reliability.
Wear and tear
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Internal challenges

Expertise
Shortage of Experienced hands
Skill development
Expectations of team members
Learning deficiency
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Internal challenges

Expense
Resource crunch
Fuel , Water ,Land
Efficiency improvement
O&M Cost reduction
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Innovative methods of processes and water

conservation are to be pursued
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Obligation to the
next generation
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Challenges arising from leadership itself

NTPC being in the leadership position is
bound to take up issues head on
-Guarding the treasure
-Coal related issues
-Domestic coal production
-Import of coal from other sources
-Liaison with regulatory bodies
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Guarding the treasure

Systems & Procedures

Revisiting and updating

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Caution can be
implicit
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Explicit
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Unambiguous
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Poor leaders harm organizations

They make poor decisions that impact

negatively on growth and financial
performance, directly and indirectly
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They cause talented employees to leave

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People do not leave companies .

They leave managers
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Good things are always in short supply

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There are two primary choices in life

To accept conditions as they exist or accept
the responsibility for changing them
-Denis Waitley
Leaders passionately believe that they can
make a difference
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Model the way

Leaders establish principles concerning the way

people should be treated and the way goals should
be pursued.

They create standards of excellence and then set an

example for others to follow.
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“Don't follow the crowd,

let the crowd follow you.”
--Margaret Thatcher
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Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Generation

Management is
efficiency in climbing
the ladder of
success; leadership
determines whether
the ladder is leaning
against the right
wall.
– Stephen Covey
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Major Liabilities
of the station
needs to be
identified and
acted up on
before it
emerges as
major threat
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Reasonable
risk cover to be
provided
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Extended risk cover

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We cannot
be too risk
averse
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Building Partnerships
Insist on fully utilizing the capabilities.

Bring in talents in new areas from other

sources
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Collaborate
with
right partners
for
mutual benefit
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Gainfully engage with all stakeholders

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Always
Remain
connected

Stakeholder
engagement
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Let us be the
torch bearers
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Expectation
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Reality
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Too complex
Technology ?
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Difficulty in technology adaption

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Non availability of land for ash disposal

– a looming danger
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Converting threat into opportunities