Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful. Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (also known as Dr. V), the pioneering, inspiring architect of the Aravind Eye Care System, was a determined and brave man. From a small 11-bed clinic in Madurai, India in 1976 ...
I have a business proposition for you. It’s the most ridiculous and amazing business idea you will ever hear. Let’s start a new company with no funding. Let’s target all of our marketing to people who can’t pay for our services. Let’s give the services away for free to anyone who doesn’t wish to pay ...
Pavi Mehta and Suchi Shenoy have just published an outrageous book, Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest Business Case for Compassion. These are two women not usually given to prevarication;* but the inventiveness, thoroughness, and depth of their deceit in Infinite Vision is rea ...