Break to grow: Sanjiv Bajaj’s guiding business principle
Executive Take
Leaders who wait for a crisis to justify structural disruption cede ground to those who proactively dismantle working systems before they become obstacles.
Executive Summary
McKinsey profiles Sanjiv Bajaj, whose guiding principle is "performing for today while transforming for tomorrow." Bajaj advocates deliberately breaking existing business structures and processes to drive growth, while cultivating an entrepreneurial culture within the organization.
Why It Matters
Executives balancing short-term performance pressure with long-term transformation will find a concrete leadership framework worth benchmarking against their own change-management approach.
Bizquad Perspective
The harder test of this philosophy is not the breaking but the sequencing—knowing which parts of a high-performing business to dismantle first without triggering execution paralysis.