If Coca-Cola can sell billions of sodas and McDonald's can sell billions of burgers,

why can't Aravind sell millions of site restoring operations.

That's the great Dr. G. Venkata Swami talking about the hospital he built, beginning at the age of 58.

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If you add up the population of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Detroit, it's fewer than 30 million people. The Aravind eye hospitals have already saved the eyesight of more

people than that. Aravind is a chain of hospitals in India that offers life-changing surgery to people who would otherwise go blind.

Every year in India, 4 million people go blind from cataracts and other illnesses that are relatively straightforward to address.

And what Dr. V figured out is that with the right

leadership leading to the right management, one person can plant a seed that changes the world.

The truth is, management changes the world.

It might be the only thing that does. Management and leadership aren't the same thing

and we need both. Leadership is what happens in between the moments that we are

managing. Managing is helping people do what they did yesterday, but faster and cheaper.

Management is staying the course.

Leadership is taking a leap, doing something that might not work, pointing to a problem, a challenge, an opportunity, and saying, I'm going over here, who wants to come. So yes, Ray Crock at McDonald's was a leader. He saw the

opportunity to franchise a business around the world.

He saw a way to run a business that was efficient.

But once Ray had done that,

it was generations of managers at McDonald's that drove McDonald's to become what McDonald's

is.

These are choices.

Management is a choice, the side effects, the downstream, the impacts. These are choices. I only met Dr. V once

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