Introduction

Azim Hashim Premji was born on July 24, 1945. He started managing his family business at a young age of 21 years in 1966.

Achievements
Recognized by business week greatest entrepreneur of all time. Businessman of the year 2000,by Business India.

Honored by the government of India ,with a padma bhushan in 2005.

Lifetime achievement award by Dataquest magazine. Featured in business week among the top 30 enterpreneurs.

Who is an entrepreneur?
Entrepreneurs start with a vision. Often they are unhappy with their current jobs and see an opportunity to bring together the resources needed for a new venture. Entrepreneurs can be best charaterized as hardworking and practical, with great familiarity with their market and industry.

Internal Locus of Control

This is reflected by one of his interviews: At the time when I joined Wipro, I was 21. If you ask me whether I thought that Wipro would grow so by someday, the honest answer is that I did not. But neither did I think it would not. We constantly stretched ourselves to higher and higher targets. Sometimes, it seemed possible, sometimes fanciful and sometimes plain insane. But we never stopped raising limits. Under his leadership, a Rs.7 crore company in hydrogenated cooking fats has grown to over Rs 10,000.

High energy level

Premji starts work at 4.30 in the morning. At 7, Premji walks his way to office where he works all day long. Frequently, Premji ends his day on a commercial flight to Mumbai, San Francisco , London -- anywhere that he thinks is important for his company.

Need to achieve
When Wipro failed to see changes in the market scenario when world came out of the recession in 2009 and it fell behind companies like TCS and Infosys, convergys. He did major changes and reorientation of the organization with the focus on customer.

Self Confidence
It can be seen by the way he took over the charge of the company after his father expired and turned the Rs.7 crore company into a $3 billion company. He had confidence when he moved into IT business, when IBM moved out of India in 1975 to fill in the gap.

As a leader
Entrepreneur Leadership: Wipro has shown phenomenal growth under Azim Premjis leadership and got transformed from hydrogenated cooking fats company to leading integrated business, technology and process Solutions Company. Visionary/innovative/creative: Introduced different products like lighting, FMCG and IT.

Traits & Style of Leadership

Value oriented person Down to earth personality High on Action Believes in professionalism Prefers solitude to spotlight