Infinite vision: how Aravind became the world's greatest business case for compassion

By:

Mehta, Pavithra K

Contributor(s):

Shenoy, Suchitra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2011Description: ix, 322 pISBN:

9781605099798

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

617.70954 MEH

Summary: 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)

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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)

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