Ingersoll Rand India Chairman Venkatesh Velluri shares his leadership style

MY FIRST GURU 
The first "team" assigned to me within a year of starting my career. Its members were older than me. They reinforced the values of trust and human dignity in me, just as my parents had. 

MY FIRST JOB
I worked with Raychem Technologies (a material science company) in Mumbai. It was US-based, but Mumbai set our work ethic standards.

MY FIRST BOSS
He taught me to get out of the way after defining the vision and to allow the team to lead....yet asked me to remain a guide and a gatekeeper.

MY FIRST PROMOTION
Within four years of joining the first company, I became the country head of the electronics division.

MY FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT
When two technical experts left the company just before the closure of a large contract... It taught me early in my career that it was important to develop people and create a succession bench in an organisation.