The Morning Brief Cricket & Corporate Leadership
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Apr 3, 2026 Ajinkya Rahane, composed international batsman and quiet leader who champions agriculture and social causes. Sanjiv Navangul, healthcare turnaround chief focused on R&D and public health. They talk leadership under pressure, rebuilding organisations, translating sports lessons to business, handling criticism with humility, and driving purpose-led change across teams and communities.
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Purpose Shapes Healthcare Leadership
- Healthcare leadership is driven by purpose: improving others' lives becomes the core motivator for decisions.
- Sanjiv Navangul says humbleness from seeing suffering and a sense of social responsibility shaped his long-term approach to healthcare.
Focus On Team Contribution To Reduce Pressure
- Accept pressure as part of representing something bigger and focus on contributing to the team to reduce stress.
- Ajinkya Rahane says shifting goal to team contribution made crowd noise motivating rather than crippling.
Turning Around A Loss Making API Plant
- Navangul recounts turning around loss-making and crisis projects before joining MSD, which prepared him for bigger opportunities.
- He describes working on an API plant turnaround and navigating post-USSR markets as formative, practical training.