Beating Covid-19 Blues

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- Dhananjay Sardeshpande

Adapt and create: Ratan Tata

Tata Group patriarch, Mr Ratan Tata, in May this year penned down a note for entrepreneurs, advising them to adapt and create to tide over the Covid-19 pandemic that has brought economic activity to a juddering halt.

“It can all start on a clean sheet of paper that looks at ways of doing things that were never thought of before. This crisis will force entrepreneurs to adapt and create,” he wrote on Instagram.

“In past difficult times, entrepreneurs have displayed far-sightedness and creativity that could not have been believed to exist. These became the flagpoles of innovation and new technology today.

“I hope that the ability to find another way to build a product, run a company, run operations a better way, will emerge as an outcome of the current crisis,” Tata wrote.

The Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons reiterated that he is confident in the inventive nature and creativity of entrepreneurs to find ways to modify businesses into benchmarks for tomorrow, despite the current challenges and difficulties.

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