TY - BOOK AU - Mehta, Pavithra K AU - Shenoy, Suchitra TI - Infinite vision: : how Aravind became the world's greatest business case for compassion SN - 9781605099798 U1 - 617.70954 PY - 2011/// CY - San Francisco PB - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. KW - Aravind Eye Hospital-Madurai India KW - Ophthalmology-history-India KW - Eye Diseases-therapy India KW - Health services accessibility-history India KW - Quality Assurance, Health care-history India KW - Hospitals, Special-history-India KW - History, 20th Century-India KW - History, 21st Century-India N1 - 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] N2 - 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) ER -