Infinite vision: how Aravind became the world's greatest business case for compassion
Mehta, Pavithra K
Infinite vision: how Aravind became the world's greatest business case for compassion - San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2011 - ix, 322 p.
Table of Content:
The Aravind Family Tree
Meet the Family
Introduction: The Power and Paradox of Aravind
Prologue: Climbing Everest
Part One: The 5-Minute, $15 Cure: On Efficiency and Compassion
Chapert 1: Of Burgers and Blindness
Chapter 2: When Free Is Not Enough
Chapter 3: This Case Won't Fly
Part Two: Do the Work and Money Will Follow: On Sustainability and Selflessness
Chapter 4: An Eye Doctor by Sheer Accident
Chapter 5: Get Less, Do More
Chapter 6: The Power of Creative Constraints
Chapter 7: You Don't Find People, You Build Them
Chapter 8: The Question of the Greedy Doctor
Part Three: A Vast Surrender: On Innovation and Inner Transformation
Chapter 9: Humankind Is a Work in Progress
Chapter 10: Dr. V's Practice of Perfect Vision
Chapter 11: Manufacturing a Revolution
Chapter 12: Maximize Service, Not Profit
Chapter 13: The Flip Side of a Visionary
Part Four: Training Your Competition on Replication and Self-Awareness
Chapter 14: If We Can Do It, So Can You
Chapter 15: Aravind is Like Kilimanjaro
Chapter 16: Business, Politics, and Prahalad's Dare
Chapter 17: Aravind in America
Part Five: How Do You Retire a Saint: On Change and Integrity
Chapter 18: Same Same but Different
Chapter 19: All Will Pass from the Earth
Chapter 20: The Bottom Is Moving Up
Chapter 21: A Place to Practice Truth
Epilogue: Death's Question
Resources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Name Index
About the Authors
Connecting to Aravind's Work
[https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/infinite-vision]
Explores the inspiring paradox of an extraordinary business that breaks all the rules.
The first book to explore the inspiring paradox of an extraordinary business that breaks all the rules
Offers an insider's view of this radical organization and its visionary founder
Describes the profound decisions behind its success and the key principles that make it replicable
The Aravind Eye Care System reinvented the rules of business to restore sight to the blind. Based in India, it is the world's largest provider of eye care and delivers surgical outcomes that equal or surpass those of developed countries-at less than 1 percent of the cost. In thirty-five years it has treated over 32 million patients, the vast majority for free. Those who can pay choose what they pay, and there is no paperwork. Refusing to rely on donations, Aravind is self-sustaining and highly profitable. Its baffling model is the subject of a popular Harvard Business School case study and has won admiration from Peter Drucker, Bill Clinton, and Muhammud Yunus. Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history and the distinctive philosophies, practices, and values that unleashed its phenomenal success.
The authors share Aravind's improbable evolution from an eleven-bed eye clinic founded by Dr. G. Venkataswamy, a retired surgeon with crippled fingers, no money, and a magnificent dream. Drawing inspiration from his spirituality and, of all things, the low-cost, high-volume, standardized approach of fast-food franchises, Dr. V. and his team (which includes thirty-five ophthalmologists from his family) created an organization that has treated everyone from penniless farmers to the president of India.
How does Aravind flourish while flouting conventional logic at every turn? What can enterprises worldwide learn from it? Infinite Vision reveals the power of a model that integrates innovation with empathy, service with business principles, and inner change with outer transformation. It shows how choices that seem na¯ve or unworkable can, when executed with wisdom and integrity, yield powerful results-results that light the eyes of millions.
(https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/infinite-vision)
9781605099798
Aravind Eye Hospital-Madurai India
Ophthalmology-history-India
Eye Diseases-therapy India
Health services accessibility-history India
Quality Assurance, Health care-history India
Hospitals, Special-history-India
History, 20th Century-India
History, 21st Century-India
617.70954 / MEH
Infinite vision: how Aravind became the world's greatest business case for compassion - San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2011 - ix, 322 p.
Table of Content:
The Aravind Family Tree
Meet the Family
Introduction: The Power and Paradox of Aravind
Prologue: Climbing Everest
Part One: The 5-Minute, $15 Cure: On Efficiency and Compassion
Chapert 1: Of Burgers and Blindness
Chapter 2: When Free Is Not Enough
Chapter 3: This Case Won't Fly
Part Two: Do the Work and Money Will Follow: On Sustainability and Selflessness
Chapter 4: An Eye Doctor by Sheer Accident
Chapter 5: Get Less, Do More
Chapter 6: The Power of Creative Constraints
Chapter 7: You Don't Find People, You Build Them
Chapter 8: The Question of the Greedy Doctor
Part Three: A Vast Surrender: On Innovation and Inner Transformation
Chapter 9: Humankind Is a Work in Progress
Chapter 10: Dr. V's Practice of Perfect Vision
Chapter 11: Manufacturing a Revolution
Chapter 12: Maximize Service, Not Profit
Chapter 13: The Flip Side of a Visionary
Part Four: Training Your Competition on Replication and Self-Awareness
Chapter 14: If We Can Do It, So Can You
Chapter 15: Aravind is Like Kilimanjaro
Chapter 16: Business, Politics, and Prahalad's Dare
Chapter 17: Aravind in America
Part Five: How Do You Retire a Saint: On Change and Integrity
Chapter 18: Same Same but Different
Chapter 19: All Will Pass from the Earth
Chapter 20: The Bottom Is Moving Up
Chapter 21: A Place to Practice Truth
Epilogue: Death's Question
Resources
Notes
Acknowledgments
Name Index
About the Authors
Connecting to Aravind's Work
[https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/infinite-vision]
Explores the inspiring paradox of an extraordinary business that breaks all the rules.
The first book to explore the inspiring paradox of an extraordinary business that breaks all the rules
Offers an insider's view of this radical organization and its visionary founder
Describes the profound decisions behind its success and the key principles that make it replicable
The Aravind Eye Care System reinvented the rules of business to restore sight to the blind. Based in India, it is the world's largest provider of eye care and delivers surgical outcomes that equal or surpass those of developed countries-at less than 1 percent of the cost. In thirty-five years it has treated over 32 million patients, the vast majority for free. Those who can pay choose what they pay, and there is no paperwork. Refusing to rely on donations, Aravind is self-sustaining and highly profitable. Its baffling model is the subject of a popular Harvard Business School case study and has won admiration from Peter Drucker, Bill Clinton, and Muhammud Yunus. Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history and the distinctive philosophies, practices, and values that unleashed its phenomenal success.
The authors share Aravind's improbable evolution from an eleven-bed eye clinic founded by Dr. G. Venkataswamy, a retired surgeon with crippled fingers, no money, and a magnificent dream. Drawing inspiration from his spirituality and, of all things, the low-cost, high-volume, standardized approach of fast-food franchises, Dr. V. and his team (which includes thirty-five ophthalmologists from his family) created an organization that has treated everyone from penniless farmers to the president of India.
How does Aravind flourish while flouting conventional logic at every turn? What can enterprises worldwide learn from it? Infinite Vision reveals the power of a model that integrates innovation with empathy, service with business principles, and inner change with outer transformation. It shows how choices that seem na¯ve or unworkable can, when executed with wisdom and integrity, yield powerful results-results that light the eyes of millions.
(https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/infinite-vision)
9781605099798
Aravind Eye Hospital-Madurai India
Ophthalmology-history-India
Eye Diseases-therapy India
Health services accessibility-history India
Quality Assurance, Health care-history India
Hospitals, Special-history-India
History, 20th Century-India
History, 21st Century-India
617.70954 / MEH