Enterprise chief and Grammy-nominated musician Chandrika TandonChandrika TandonThrough the 1980s, Chandrika Tandon was a extremely profitable McKin
Enterprise chief and Grammy-nominated musician Chandrika Tandon
Chandrika Tandon
Through the 1980s, Chandrika Tandon was a extremely profitable McKinsey marketing consultant and have become the primary Indian-American lady to be elected associate on the agency.
Then she arrange her personal enterprise, Tandon Capital Associates, in 1992. “I used to be on this absolute breakneck tempo with Tandon Capital … I used to be doing deal after deal and creating I feel billions of {dollars} in market worth,” Tandon instructed CNBC’s “The Brave Ones.”
However at some point the enterprise was about to signal a “very, very signature deal,” she mentioned. However she could not do it. “I hadn’t signed on the dotted line … one thing occurred to me; I could not signal the contracts. I simply was paralyzed,” she mentioned.
Tandon got here to a crossroads in her life. “I began to assume … ‘Is that this what my life’s going to be, I will do one deal after one other, after one other?’ … I locked my door and I simply needed to know, I needed to assume. I cried. I simply was making an attempt to determine who I used to be, what was success, why was I placed on the planet? What was my better objective?” she instructed “The Courageous Ones.”
She spent extra time along with her daughter, Lita Tandon. “She was strolling away from main offers and began spending quite a lot of time each with me, actually specializing in my everyday, which she hadn’t had as a lot time to have interaction in and spending quite a lot of time…