Cricket to Corporate

By Kapil Pathare

Cricket has emerged as religion in the sub-contient, While in the West, strategy may have had its origins in the Military, here we can clearly see patterns that Corporate Strategy seems to emerge from Cricket. Gully Cricket is all about adapting, and the three formats of the game, viz. T20, 50-50 and Test Match demand different strategies -- from rapid to agile to sustainable. One relates to targets far better as we have accustomed ourselves to chasing and defending. Slogging is not just about working hard, but also about hardhitting. Strike Bowler is also a star performer and there are many parallels one can discover between the strategic role in a corporate and what happens in the field of Cricket. What's on paper and what happens on the field are as good as the implementation that happens on ground. Lengthy presentations, discussions are no good till it is translated into reality on the field. Similarly a player may have impressive track record in terms of an average; or centuries and half centuries scored, but the performance on the given day matters. Truly Cricket and Corporate is the Convergence point of strategy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482840063

Kapil Pathare

Kapil Pathare Director - VIP Clothing Ltd (formerly known as Maxwell Industries Ltd) At the initiation of 21st century, VIP Clothing Ltd (formerly known as Maxwell Industries Ltd), a VIP Group Company, in innerwear manufacturing witnessed introduction of enthusiastic, young and dynamic leadership in the Board Of Directors. Mr. Kapil Jaykumar Pathare at a tender age of 21 engraved his name in the Company and impressed the whole with his situational leadership style, spot decision making abilities and as an effective communicator of management decisions. With his enthusiasm and customer oriented global vision, Kapil has made a great difference in its manufacturing and marketing traditions and styles. He possesses an absolute clear vision armed with the right attitude and fundamental understanding. He believes that the success of business personnel depends on the right understanding of human resources, their approaches, skills and values of those who work in the organization. Kapil pursued his Masters in Business Administration after his graduation in Commerce, and has equipped himself of being a professional entrepreneur. He is also in-charge of the other business owned by the family like Jet Klean Laundry, Shogun Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Pako Hindustan. He also heads Maxwell Entertainment Pvt Ltd., a strategic tie-up with event companies for organising various cultural, film, and biking events. His passion for riding bikes brings him satisfaction in life. Kapil is a true cricket lover and loves watching the game at stadiums, and even travels to different parts of world to do so. The first book Cricket to Corporate published by PartridgeIndia and launched by The Cricketing Legend Mr. Kiran More. says about being a performer to a thinker and a Leader, one gets a chance to do role playing and learn the basic of strategy simply by playing Cricket. These strategies can be applied in real life business management in terms of chasing targets, managing budgets or capturing markets. Truly Cricket and Corporate coverage into one point of strategy The second book A Tall Order first edition was launched in Mumbai by the Cricketing legend Mr Sanath Jayasurya & promoted in Hyderabad by Indian Cricket Womens Team Captain Ms. Mithali Raj & Former Indian Player Mr. Venkatpathy Raju. ***

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Contents

Chapter 1 Early Beginnings – Child Prodigies All!

Chapter 2 Gully Cricket

Chapter 3 Change Is The Only Constant!

Chapter 4 Once Upon A Time… One Day….

Chapter 5 Twenty Something!

Chapter 6 Indian Premier League

Chapter 7 Level Playing Field!

Chapter 8 Does Man At The Top Determine The Team’s Destiny?

Chapter 9 Positions & Positioning View:

Chapter 10 Cricket As A Theatrical Performance On Stage!

Chapter 11 Cricket And Corporate

Kapil Pathare

At the initiation of 21st century, Maxwell Industries Ltd., a VIP Group Company, witnessed introduction of enthusiastic, young and dynamic leadership in the Board Of Directors. Mr. Kapil Jaykumar Pathare at a tender age of 21 engraved his name in the Company and impressed the whole with his situational leadership style, spot decision making abilities and as an effective communicator of management decisions. Since the beginning, he has been inclined more towards the operations side of the Management Functionary, besides other functions. He focused more on various aspects of Manufacturing of innerwear goods with his clear concept of quality of products & services. He always describes that Maxwell is a pioneer of innerwear manufacturers but moreover, we are innovating marketing Company. With this enthusiasm and customer oriented global vision, he has made a great difference in the then manufacturing & marketing traditions & styles. To be as a global innerwear manufacturer, he possess an absolute clear vision which is armed with right attitude and fundamental understanding of human being. He believes in success of business personnel depends on right understanding of human resources, their approaches, skills and values of those who work in the Organization.

Mr. Kapil Pathare did pursue his Masters in Business Administration after his Graduation in Commerce discipline and has equipped himself on professional front by undergoing various seminars, conferences and updating himself through the mentoring process. It will not be out of place to mention here that Mr. Pathare acquired fundamental skills and knowledge of business systems, procedures & technical aspects by being with the people on the floor and understanding the nitigrities thereof through the people in-charge of the operations. With this blend of vision and action he has been leading a team of professionals and setting up SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time bound) objectives for the team to achieve in the areas of manufacturing and marketing of innerwear, lingerie, readymade garments, socks and other accessories.

Maxwell Industries Ltd. is a name well versed with and affiliated to many fashion Awards for more than two decades, to name the few at its credit, ABBY’s Gold 2005, Golden Scale Trophy (2007-2008) - The Brand of the year Women’s Inner Wear By CMAI, Golden Scale Trophy (2007-2008) - The Brand of the year Men’s Inner Wear By CMAI, Golden Scale Trophy (2006-2007) - The Brand of the year Men’s Inner Wear By CMAI, IMA -Image Fashion Award, Lycra Fashion Award : Most Admired Innerwear Company of the year - VIP Group.

The Company has been continuously engaged in branding of products and emerging its image from masses brands to premium Brands. The Company’s foresight in placing Frenchie and Frenchie X innerwear brands in Indian market and abroad have created a passion for innerwear in young generation of the Country. Recently, the Company also had tie-up with a French premium brand – Eminence, to manufacture and cater in the Indian market. Mr. Kapil Pathare is a consistent follower of Change Management thinking preceded with Kaizen and principle of Just-in-time in the areas of inventory management. He always states, Time Is The Essence Of The Management and therefore he believes in timely delivery of the results for the development & prosperity of the Company.

Kapil also has a strategic tie up with events company for organizing various corporate and film events along with biking events. His passion for riding bike brings him meditation in life. Mr Kapil is a true cricket lover and loves to watch cricket even at times in stadiums and travel different parts of world to watch cricket.

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Chapter 1

Early beginnings – Child Prodigies all!

A s you roll the plastic ball on the ground without giving it any bounce, the child just blindly swings the bat and irrespective of the outcome – You shout — Aaeee… Four! Aaeee….. Wow Sixer! Shotttt!

These are the three words we must be instilling in every