Leadership of perseverance, passion and willingness to succeed - Dev Raturi

Selected as World's Best Emerging Business Leaders 2022 in the food chain category, Dev Raturi is a trend setting entrepreneur who has fuelled impressive growth through immense passion and innovation

IN CONVERSATION WITH DEV RATURI , AMBER PALACE & RED FORT RESTAURANT CHAIN

What makes a strong leader? What are your key leadership strengths are make the strongest attributes of success.

From my perspective, a strong leader is the one who leads by example, a person who is the last man standing in worst circumstances, a person whom your team can look upon.

One of the quality I am blessed with is perseverance and believe in always keep going irrespective of how adverse the situation is, in past few years, I have faced the toughest challenges where usually people give up however, I did not even think of giving up but always tried to find solution at every step of the problem . There has been numerous times when our business was in turmoil and we saw extreme turbulent times however I always stood by and resolved it. My core team members and my friends always stood by me during the tough times.

An accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career? What challenges did you face to reach to the success.

When started my career in China,I was a waiter in an Indian restaurant, in a span of 5 years , I was a General Manager in one of the prestigious USA company, I found it highly rewarding and had a sense of accomplishment . The journey was not easy, I put myself on fire of learning, be it hospitality management, language, presentations, dashboards, P&L,excel reporting etc. I faced rejections also many times however ultimately I climbed the ladder and reached the position I wanted.

What is a role of leader in these challenging times.

A leader should be visionary and should not think short term.

A leader should be self driven and lead by example.

A leader should be perseverant and should never give up.

A leader should think of growth of this team members , he will grow automatically.

A leader should be smart and good decision maker.

What is your vision and how do you share that with your shareholders, employees and others?