Telecom veteran Asim Ghosh believes in empowering his team and relying on them to bring success
I typically get up sometime after seven in the morning because I need my eight hours of sleep. But then, as soon as I get up, I am at work. The first thing I do is I turn on my phone, which I turn off at midnight incidentally. But all those people who need to reach me for any crisis have my landline number (available with my secretary), so I am always accessible 24x7.
After I get up, the first thing I do is look at overnight SMSes and voice mails. In fact, my shower gets delayed till I return those messages and calls.
(This story appears in the 03 July, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)