Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday 30 May 1985

OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY - PROJECT ASH

Synopsis: Communication For Productivity
Letters written to some 7500 Workers / Managers / Union Leaders, following a period of strike / Go slow / Murders (1979 - 1987), at Mumbai factory of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. This direct / open / honest communication led to a remarkable atmosphere of trust between Workers and Management, which, in turn, increased productivity at 3% per year (ave).

30 May 1985

To:

Dy. Gen. Manager (Powai)
Mgr. (Facilities Planning)
Mgr. (Computer Centre)
Mgr. (Materials Control Dept.)


OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY  - PROJECT ASH

Please  remember that   "changes   in  hardware"   must  be accompanied by "changes in Attitudes".

Now that DLP/UVR have approved  EPABX, we must get thoroughly ready to release our Foreign  Purchase Orders (and local ones too)  on  the  very  day  we  receive  capital  sanction  for 1985-86. It must   be   simultaneous   with the   annual appropriation (i.e. 1st quarter) - even that is late !

And we must make the same presentation (DLP/UVR) to

ð Monthly Management Meeting             )      Overcoming
ð L&T Officers & Sup. Assn.                         )      resistance
ð Other Managers                                      )      to change
ð Powai level Productivity Comm.          )      in technology
ð Works Committee                                   )      involving employees

between NOW and October 1985.  This is a MUST.

H.C. PAREKH

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