Vijay Batra

Early Life and education

Born to a mother of Japanese descent and father of Indian descent, Vijay lived in Japan for the first five years of his life before coming to Delhi for the first time. After completing school and graduation from India, he did his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh (Katz Business School) in 1986. After his MBA he was sponsored by Fujitsu for a year to attend a training course at JAIMS (Japan America Institute of Management Sciences) in Hawaii, where he graduated with a diploma in Japanese Management.

Career

Before he completed his MBA, he worked at Marriott Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. After his training at JAIMS, Vijay joined Kankaku Securities, July 1, 1987, an investment bank belonging to Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank group, now Mizuho Securities in 1987 in Tokyo, Japan. Vijay worked in Kankaku from 1987 till 1999. Of the years that he spent with Kankaku Securities, he spent 3 years in Japan and 9 years in New York, USA. In 1999, Vijay spent three months to hone his skills as a facilitator of adult learning at the PHP Institute, a Think Tank affiliated to Panasonic, founded by Matsushita Konosuke who is considered to be the ultimate authority in management and leadership in Japan.

Personal life

He is married to Monica Batra with two children Gayatri and Gaurav and resides in Delhi.

"Switch On" Technique

Vijay is known to “switch people on” - a technique that he introduced and has constantly been improving it since. “Switching on”, is a technique that anchors the pillars of success and happiness. According to him, these are:

1. to work with a sense of commitment not compulsion,
2. by creating more "want to" than "have to",
3. think of targets to be achieved as important and not difficult,
4. function by creating better designs, and not by default,
5. learn, don't blame
6. take challenges as puzzles, not problems i.e. think; not worry;
7. be in the "and" mode not "or", i.e. include, don't exclude by focusing on
8. essentials not inessentials;
9. add strength not nuisance;
10. live life by choice not chance.

Books

He has recently authored three books

1. Think There Is a Better Way - ISBN 81-86773-92-4
2. Switch On - ISBN 81-86773-90-8
3. The Matsushita Way Success Principles - ISBN 81-86773-89-4

Apart from that, he has also co-authored books with his father Dr. Promod K. Batra

Walk on Sand, before you Sleep on Silk - published by Full Circle.

Books in Hindi authored by Vijay Batra and his father Dr. Promod Batra, published by Full Circle and Prabhat Paperbacks are :

1. सफलता के अनमोल रत्न - ISBN 81-7621-096-X
2. सुख संतुष्टि के सरल नियम - ISBN 81-7621-117-6
3. अपने परिवार को कुश कैसे रखे - ISBN 978-81-7315-736-3
4. कर्मचारियों को सर्वश्रेष्ट बनाये - ISBN 978-81-7315-895-7

Books in English authored by Vijay Batra and his father Dr. Promod Batra

1. Great success- ISBN 81-86773-88-6
2. Customers happy – ISBN 81-900019-8-1
3. Outside the box – ISBN 81-86773-86-x
4. Service customers – ISBN 81-900547-9-1
5. Management wisdom – ISBN 81-86773-16-9
6. Management in action – ISBN 81-900019-4-9
7. Management think tank – ISBN 81-900547-7-5
8. Management thought – ISBN 978-81-900019-2-2
9. Management thought starters – ISBN 978-81-86773-14-7
10. Simple ways to make your boss success – ISBN 81-86773-01-0
11. Simple ways to make your daughter worldly wise – ISBN 81-900547-2-4
12. Simple ways to make your son good for everything – ISBN 81-900547-3-2