Shantanu Deshpande, CEO of Bombay Shaving Company, was earlier reprimanded for saying that youngsters should work for 18 hours a day.
Shantanu Deshpande, CEO of Bombay Shaving Company, created quite a stir when he said that youngsters should work 18 hours a day during their early career. He apparently couldn't handle the trolling after the "18-hour" comment and temporarily left LinkedIn. Said.
In a TV interview, Shantanu Deshpande said, "I apologize to those whose post may have hurt sentiments or appeared out of context or without nuance, which I now recognize was a necessity". .
Now, in his latest LinkedIn post, Deshpande has praised Shanky Chauhan, his company's head of sales. According to him, despite working with many "driven" people who do "everything possible and everything impossible", Chauhan never ceases to amaze him.
“On paper, he is our head of sales, chief of staff, head of the people committee. But in real life, he is the heartbeat of the company."
Everyone turns to Shanky in critical situations, he wrote, adding that, from Deshpande to co-founder Deepak Gupta, from management to junior most associates, everyone has Shanky as the last resort.
"He loves the company. His eyes light up when he talks about his work, his team, his store, his distributors, his customers. I see his team members start imitating him." Talk like him, walk like him, act like him. This is his influence and inspiration," wrote Deshpande.
Calling his employee a "diamond asset", Deshpande wrote that it has been a "struggle" to "switch off" Chauhan. He said he was constantly concerned about Chauhan's health and felt that "longevity is everything" for the employee to do justice to his commitment to the company.
At the same time, Deshpande asked the company's founders to "find their Shanky" in their organization.
Finding and developing such coworkers is key to the company's success. He said that only one or two of such employees are needed.
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