Adding Spice To Leadership
Baskar Babu, who learnt the basics of cooking from his mother, started experimenting with food early in life. He finds cooking therapeutic
Baskar Babu, Managing Director and CEO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank
Baskar Babu, Managing Director and CEO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank believes in the idea of Servant Leadership (where the goal of the leader is to serve). Over the years, he has figured out a very palatable way of demonstrating this to his staff - by cooking for them during CEO-connect meetings.
Babu, who learnt the basics of cooking from his mother, started experimenting with food early in life. He finds cooking therapeutic. I was supposed to hold a CEO-connect meeting and I told my team that I don t want it to be a preaching session, but a more casual and freewheeling one. So, they came up with the idea of potluck lunch, says Babu. But he thought a potluck lunch would be boring, and decided to cook for his staff. He ended up making Dosa for