Entrepreneurship is not about boundaries: Dr Subhash Chandra

An entrepreneur is someone who sees no boundaries and entrepreneurship is not about boundaries. This and several other life experiences were shared by Dr Subhash Chandra, chairman, Essel Group and Zee with several businessmen. Chandra was in city on the invite of the ?entrepreneurs to conduct Zee Media Corporation's flagship show Dr Subhash Chandra (DSC) Show – an initiative that looks to give back to the society.

This was the show's 20th edition and the earlier ones included the Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad among others prominent institutions. Two talk shows were held on Saturday at the Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research. The first one saw over 200 entrepreneurs who wanted to know how to avoid politicizing work towards organisation's objective and how to grow forward. The other saw Welingkar students listening to Chandra in rapt attention.

Among the questions were many pertaining to start-ups, how to sustain growth, reduce attrition, women entrepreneurs and the scenario of media. While some of the responses had advices, some asked to question "set norms".

"Unless there is a brain drain happening, I do not see why there should not be attrition. In fact, I am for it to some extent," said Chandra. He advocated "breaking" of rules to be innovative. "As businesses, competition comes in and after a point of time all businesses seem alike due to mediocrity and complacency that set in. That should not happen," said the media mogul.

"Entrepreneurship is not about boundaries. If you do not see boundaries, then you are an entrepreneur," said Chandra. The key to success, the tycoon said, was is maintain calm in adverse scenarios. "If you have identified need, then you need to execute it well. You have a failure when you do not execute it or if there was a problem in execution." Addressing mediapersons before the programme, Chandra spoke on failure and future of media. Failure, as such, he said, "is only when you accept it. Else there was no failure and that is what I have believed".

On his starting the Zee group, Chandra said it was something he did not expect to become so "monstrous". "Had I known what it was going to become, I may not have ventured into it." The owner of country's biggest media house stated that in future media would be very different than what it is now. "Publisher monopoly will go away from media."

Dr Leena Doshi of Inspiring Conversation, a group of entrepreneurs who organise talk shows to stay upgraded, said, "His talk was asking us to live in the present. It was one pearl of wisdom. We worry too much about the past or future."