Are our leaders ready to accept the 'NO' from their subordinates?

We are told to say 'NO' graciously to the seniors and customers to avoid any cumbersome moment and imbalance in our professional relationship. Most leaders on the ground are not ready to accept the 'NO' from anyone for any reasons. The word 'NO' always touches the ego of the leaders and make them reluctant to accept the same.

They were ready to experience the mistake at any cost just to ride over the egoism. 

It is always easy for trainers, coaches and external personal to simply say 'NO' from outside. When you are in a situation, people always value the professional bonding than the damage they would create to their own credibleness and reliableness.

Also Leaders at a times, take the answer 'NO' personally and make it as a point to remind on every activity associated with that person. This always jeopardize the professional relationship. Leaders knowingly or unknowingly start fueling the gap occurred due to mishap. This crops up many question in our mind.

How open the leader should be to a negative answers? Is there a fear of loosing position with subordinates? Are there ego is higher their own company or institution interest? Are they reluctant to accept 'NO' just because they are boss?

I think at the moment the answer is NO, our leaders are not ready to accept negative answers from their subordinates.

Subash Menon - Founder Chairman, Managing Director & CEO - Kivar Holding / Subex Ltd

Subash Menon
Founder Chairman, Managing Director & CEO - Kivar Holdings Pvt. Ltd. / Subex Ltd
He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Subash Menon founded Subex in 1992 and has been its CEO since inception. Under his stewardship, Subex has transformed from a Systems Integrator in the telecom hardware space to a leader in the telecom software space with a niche focus in revenue maximization. Subash charted Subex's growth from its humble origins as a one-man company to a global thought leader in the telecom software space with the successful launch of several products and with over 150 customers across 60+ countries in 6 continents. Subash also guided the company through a successful IPO in 1999 and through seven acquisitions.

Subex Limited is a leading global provider of Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS. Subex's product portfolio powers the ROC and its best-in-class solutions enable new service creation, operational transformation, subscriber-centric fulfillment, provisioning automation, revenue assurance, cost management, data integrity management, fraud management and interconnect / inter-party settlement.

Subex's customers include 36 of the world's Top 72 telecommunications service providers. The company has more than 300 installations across 70 countries.

R Venkat Rajendran - Chairman & CEO - Billionways Holdings

R Venkat Rajendran
Chairman & CEO - Billionways Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
He is a graduate in Electronics and Communications Engineering from The Madras Institute of Technology, (now part of Anna University) Chennai.

Venkat Rajendran is now involved in a number of new entrepreneurships - Technology, Retail and Social. Before founding Billionways in 2006, Venkat co-founded Deccanet Designs Ltd, a telecom technology company in Bangalore, in 1994. Deccanet was venture funded by GVFL, TDA Capital Partners, and Intel Capital. Deccanet's clients included Motorola, Broadcom, Intel, Siemens, OKI among others. Venkat was its President and CEO when Flextronics acquired Deccanet in early 2004. He headed Flextronics Design operations in India and China until the end of 2005.

Billionway's ventures include Ordyn Technologies a Bangalore based Telecom product company, Orizin, an RF ID technology company based in Mysore, Acton Biotech, a life sciences company in Pune, Billion Smiles, a hospitality venture (The South Indies and Bonsouth chain of restaurants), based in Bangalore, Sakhi, a women's fashion outlet chain HQed in Bangalore and Billionways Internet Ventures, an Internet Marketing enterprise. Billionways ventures outside India include ITMS Corporation, Beijing.
Billionsmiles run by his son Vijay Abhimanyu Rajendran; Sakhi founded by his wife Chandra Rajendran, she run this business along with her daughter Neeta Rajendran

Raman Roy - Chairman and Managing Director - Quatrro BPO

Raman Roy
Chairman and Managing Director - Quatrro BPO
He is qualified Chartered Accountant and Commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce

Raman remained as Chairman and Managing Director of Wipro Spectramind until June 2005, growing the company to become the largest provider of third party BPO shared services from India, with nearly 16,000 employees. He successfully led the captive BPO initiatives with American Express (BPO Business in India) , GECIS (GE Capital) and Spectramind (now Wipro BPO).

Quatrro is a global services company offering business and knowledge processing services to organizations seeking higher operational effectiveness, greater flexibility and lower operating costs.

Ajit Isaac - Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer - IKYA Global

Ajit Isaac
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer - IKYA Human Capital
He is a gold medalist in M. A. (Personnel Management & Industrial Relations) from the Madras School of Social Work and has been a British Chevening Scholar under which he completed a 'Managers for Leadership Program' from Leeds University.

Ajit has been an industry specialist on Human Capital related issues in India with an experience of over 18 years and has been associated with Godrej & Boyce and Essar Group in various leadership roles. He is also the Founder & ex-Managing Director of PeopleOne Consulting which was acquired by Adecco, one of the largest HR services companies in the world.

IKYA Human Capital Solutions is a premium integrated HR solutions company, with a focus on Executive Search, Recruitment Solutions and Staffing Services. Headquartered at Bangalore, IKYA provides value-added services to a broad range of industry sectors through a growing network of company-owned offices across India.

Deepak Ghaisas - Chairman & Chief Mentor - GENCOVAL

Deepak Ghaisas
Chairman & Chief Mentor - GENCOVAL
He is is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretary.

Prior to Gencoval, Deepak was Vice Chairman, Oracle Financial Services and CEO, iFlex India. It was his strategic, financial and operational acumen that drove the company into a true Indian multinational. Deepak is the first Indian CFO to win the prestigious CFO Asia award.
Deepak is an active contributor to industry as:

• Executive Member of The NASSCOM Executive Council
• Member of Executive Council of Western India CII
• Board member for several companies, particularly in pharma and retail

GENCOVAL will generate companion value for health care companions.GENCOVAL's first venture Stemade. Stemade is proud to be India's first private dental stem cell bank. By pioneering this technology, Stemade will help in building an entire generation that will be able to face their future confidently

Michel Susai - Founder, Chairman and CEO - NeoAccel

Michel Susai
Founder, Chairman & CEO - NeoAccel
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology and Research

Michel has a proven track record of leading technology start-ups to success. In 1997, he founded NetScaler, Inc whose unique technology significantly improved web-content delivery for large-scale corporations. Today, over 75% of global web-traffic is processed through a NetScaler appliance including content from Google, MSN, Amazon.com, and MLB.com. NetScaler was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2005 in a $300 million transaction.

NeoAccel provides the most advanced, secure, and high-performance access to any application from any device anywhere. Its SSL VPN-Plus™ product line delivers all the performance of IPsec VPNs with the added benefits of increased security, simplified management, and reduced cost of ownership. Its NAM-Plus network access control product line addresses the challenge of secure internal access within the corporate LAN with the added benefit of full application access control.