Across industries, these three simple colors have been used as code by the corporate world to measure complex performance requirements. The job might be getting thermal nuclear power plants to power an entire continent or simply packaging candies made for 3 yr olds, but the report card is the same - Red, Amber of Green. If there is one person who can take credit for this dumbing down of Corporate Management, it is Captain Ranga De.
Captain Ranga De, was a colossus who strutted around this Corporate Nation across continents, in his 25 year corporate career. After a 6 year Army career that was cut short by life-threatening injuries, Ranga De moved to the corporate world and has worked in many companies in different countries in many different roles. Two things he always carried with him -
1. A hard charging and overbearing attitude that drove his teams to the extreme limits of their performance, patience and sanity
2. The tri-color performance matrix that drove his teams to the extreme limits of their performance, patience and sanity
Ranga De was a hard man to please. Once as the Director of a Sport Channel, he showed Harsha Bhogle the red card from the commentary box, telling him that he would be much better at his job if he talked less and worked more.
Another time, as the Sales Head of a struggling car dealership, he ordered the flagship model to be sold only in Green color to turnaround sales in Gujarat. When that did not succeed, he moved into an HR role and fired the entire sales team for non-performance.
The coup de grace from this illustrious gentleman was delivered surprisingly by his wife, Basanti Ranga De at his retirement party when she said, "I would like to thank everyone he has worked with, who supported him despite the life-threatening injuries, that left him color-blind when he joined the corporate world"
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