ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Harish Manwani - COO, Unilever
Harish Manwani joined Unilever as a management trainee in 1976; he is now the company's chief operating officer.

Why you should listen

Harish Manwani is a Unilever man through and through. Having joined the company in 1976, he imagined that his time would be taken up with selling soap and soup. Not so, his then-boss told him. "You're here to change lives." It sounded far-fetched, but as the years went on and as he moved through the ranks of the corporation, Manwani began to understand his mentor's wisdom. Those words remain close to his heart even in his current role as the company's chief operating officer.

Now based in Singapore, Manwani graduated from Mumbai University and has a master's degree in management studies; he also attended the advanced management program at the Harvard Business School. He is the non-executive chairman of Hindustan Lever and a member of the executive board of the Indian School of Business.

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Harish Manwani: Profit’s not always the point

Hariš Manvani (Harish Manwani): Profit nije uvek cilj

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Verovatno ne očekujete da izvršni direktor jedne od vodećih svetskih kompanija vidi dalje od procene vrednosti ili iznosa na računu. Ali Hariš Manvani, izvršni direktor Unilevera, iznosi argumente koji pokazuju da je uključivanje vrednosti, cilja i održivosti u donošenje najbitnijih odluka ne samo praktično, već da je to i jedini način za odgovorno vođenje posla u 21. veku.
- COO, Unilever
Harish Manwani joined Unilever as a management trainee in 1976; he is now the company's chief operating officer. Full bio

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The entireцео modelмодел of capitalismкапитализам
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Čitav model kapitalizma
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and the economicекономски modelмодел that you and I
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i ekonomski model u kom smo
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did businessбизнис in,
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vi i ja poslovali,
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and, in factчињеница, continueНастави to do businessбизнис in,
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i u kom nastavljamo da poslujemo
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was builtизграђен around what probablyвероватно MiltonMilton FriedmanFriedman
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izgrađen je otprilike u vreme
koje je sažeto definisao
Milton Frajdmen.
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put more succinctlyjezgrovito.
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And AdamAdam SmithSmith, of courseкурс,
the fatherотац of modernмодеран economicsекономија
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Adam Smit,
otac moderne ekonomije,
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actuallyзаправо said manyмноги, manyмноги yearsгодине agoпре,
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tvorac teorije nevidljive ruke,
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the invisibleневидљив handруку,
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rekao je pre mnogo godina:
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whichкоја is, "If you continueНастави to operateрадити
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ako nastavite da radite
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in your ownвластити self-interestсамопоштовање
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u sopstvenom interesu
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you will do the bestнајбоље good for societyдруштво."
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učinićete najbolju stvar za društvo.
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Now, capitalismкапитализам has doneГотово a lot of good things
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Kapitalizam je doneo
dosta dobrih stvari,
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and I've talkedпричао about a lot of good
things that have happenedдесило,
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i govorio sam o mnogima
koje su se dogodile.
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but equallyподједнако, it has not been ableу могуцности to meetсусрет up
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Isto tako, nije uspeo da se suoči
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with some of the challengesизазове that we'veми смо seenвиђено
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sa izazovima koje smo uočili
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in societyдруштво.
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u modernom društvu.
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The modelмодел that at leastнајмање I was broughtдоведен up in
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Model u kom sam ja odrastao,
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and a lot of us doing
businessбизнис were broughtдоведен up in
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kao i mnogi ovde
koji se bave biznisom,
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was one whichкоја talkedпричао about
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govorio je o nečemu
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what I call the threeтри G'sSoma. of growthраст:
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što ja nazivam tri R razvoja:
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growthраст that is consistentдоследно,
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razvoj koji je konstantan,
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quarterчетвртина on quarterчетвртина;
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dinar po dinar;
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growthраст that is competitiveконкурентно,
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takmičarski razvoj,
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better than the other personособа;
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bolji nego kod ostalih osoba;
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and growthраст that is profitableпрофитабилно,
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i razvoj koji donosi profit,
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so you continueНастави to make
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tako da stalno dobijate
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more and more shareholderakcionar valueвредност.
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na deoničarskoj vrednosti.
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And I'm afraidуплашен this is not going to be good enoughдовољно
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Bojim se da ovo
nije dovoljno dobro
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and we have to moveпотез from this 3G modelмодел
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i da se moramo
odreći 3R modela
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to a modelмодел of what I call
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zarad modela koji bih nazvao
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the fourthчетврто G:
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četvrtim R:
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the G of growthраст that is responsibleодговоран.
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R za razvoj koji je odgovoran.
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And it is this that has to becomeпостати
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Upravo to treba da postane
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a very importantважно partдео
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veoma važan deo
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of creatingстварање valueвредност.
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stvaranja vrednosti.
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Of not just creatingстварање economicекономски valueвредност
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Ne samo ekonomskih,
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but creatingстварање socialсоцијално valueвредност.
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već i društvenih vrednosti.
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And companiesкомпаније that will thriveуспевају are those
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Kompanije koje će napredovati
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that will actuallyзаправо embraceзагрли the fourthчетврто G.
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su one koje će zaista
prihvatiti četvrto R.
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And the modelмодел of 4G is quiteприлично simpleједноставно:
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Model 4R je prilično jednostavan:
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CompaniesKompanija cannotне може affordприушти
to be just innocentневин bystandersprolaznici
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kompanije ne mogu
da priušte posmatranje
onoga što se dešava u društvu.
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in what's happeningдогађај around in societyдруштво.
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They have to beginзапочети to playигра theirњихова roleулога
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Moraće da prihvate svoju ulogu
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in termsуслови of servingслужи the communitiesзаједнице
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u pogledu služenja zajednici
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whichкоја actuallyзаправо sustainодржи them.
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koja ih održava.
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And we have to moveпотез to a modelмодел
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Moramo da pređemo
na i/i model
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of an and/and modelмодел whichкоја is
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koji glasi:
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how do we make moneyновац and do good?
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kako da zarađujemo
i činimo dobro?
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How do we make sure
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Kako da se postaramo
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that we have a great businessбизнис
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da poslujemo kako treba,
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but we alsoтакође have a great environmentЖивотна средина around us?
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i da u isto vreme
imamo sjajno okruženje?
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And that modelмодел
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Ovaj model se suštinski odnosi
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is all about doing well and doing good.
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na to da radimo i činimo dobro.
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But the questionпитање is easierлакше said than doneГотово.
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Ali lakše je reći nego učiniti.
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But how do we actuallyзаправо get that doneГотово?
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Kako da to i ostvarimo?
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And I do believe
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Verujem da će odgovor na to
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that the answerодговор to that is going to be leadershipлидерство.
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biti vođstvo.
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It is going to be to redefineредефинисати
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Rešenje je da ponovo definišemo
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the newново businessбизнис modelsмодели
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poslovne modele
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whichкоја understandРазумем
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koji će podrazumevati
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that the only licenseлиценца to operateрадити
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da je jedina mogućnost
za funkcionisanje
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is to combineкомбиновати these things.
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kombinovanje ovih elemenata.
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And for that you need businessesпредузећа
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Za to su nam potrebni
poslovni projekti
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that can actuallyзаправо defineдефинисати theirњихова roleулога
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koji umeju da odrede svoju ulogu
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in societyдруштво
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u društvu,
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in termsуслови of a much largerвеће purposeсврха
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koja je mnogo veća
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than the productsпроизводи and brandsrobne marke that they sellпродати.
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od proizvoda i brendova
koje prodaju.
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And companiesкомпаније that actuallyзаправо defineдефинисати a trueистина northсевер,
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Kompanije koje imaju zacrtan cilj,
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things that are nonnegotiableNe moћe pregovarati
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stvari koje nemaju kompromis
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whetherда ли је timesпута are good, badлоше, uglyружно --
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bez obzira na to
kakve su okolnosti.
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doesn't matterматерија.
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Nije bitno.
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There are things that you standстој for.
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Postoje stvari za koje
se čovek bori.
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ValuesVrednosti and purposeсврха are going to be the two
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Vrednosti i cilj će biti
dve komponente sistema
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driversupravljački programi of softwareсофтвер
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koji će stvoriti
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that are going to createстворити
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the companiesкомпаније of tomorrowсутра.
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kompanije budućnosti.
03:12
And I'm going to now shiftсмена
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Sada ću preći na priču
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to talkingпричају a little bitмало about my ownвластити experiencesискуства.
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o sopstvenom iskustvu.
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I joinedПридружио UnileverUnilever in 1976
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Pridružio sam se firmi „Unilever''
1976. godine
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as a managementменаџмент traineepripravnik in IndiaIndija.
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kao pripravnik menadžmenta
u Indiji.
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And on my first day of work
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Prvog dana na poslu
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I walkedходао in and my bossшеф tellsкаже me,
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ušao sam i šef me je pitao:
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"Do you know why you're here?"
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Da li znaš zašto si ovde?
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I said, "I'm here to sellпродати a lot of soapсапун."
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Rekao sam:
„Ovde sam da prodajem sapun''.
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And he said,
"No, you're here to changeпромена livesживи."
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On je rekao:
„Ne, ovde si da menjaš živote''
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You're here to changeпромена livesживи.
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Ovde si da menjaš živote.
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You know, I thought it was ratherприлично facetiousNe pricaj.
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Mi smo kompanija koja
prodaje sapun i supe.
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We are a companyкомпанија that sellsпродаје soapсапун and soupсупа.
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What are we doing about changingпромена livesживи?
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Šta mi radimo
da menjamo živote?
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And it's then I realizedреализован
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Tada sam shvatio
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that simpleједноставно actsделује
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da i mali potez
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like sellingпродаја a barбар of soapсапун
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poput prodaje sapuna
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can saveсачувати more livesживи
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može da spase više života
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than pharmaceuticalфармацеутски companiesкомпаније.
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od farmaceutske kompanije.
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I don't know how manyмноги of you know
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Ne znam koliko vas zna
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that fiveпет millionмилиона childrenдеца don't reachдостигнути the ageстарост of fiveпет
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da 5 miliona dece
ne doživi petu godinu
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because of simpleједноставно infectionsинфекције that can be preventedспречено
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zbog infekcija
koje se mogu sprečiti
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by an actчинити of washingпрање theirњихова handsруке with soapсапун.
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pranjem ruku sapunom.
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We runтрцати the largestнајвеће
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Mi pokrećemo najveći
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hand-washingpranje ruku programпрограм
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program pranja ruku
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in the worldсвет.
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na svetu.
04:12
We are runningтрчање a programпрограм on hygieneХигијена and healthздравље
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Pokrenuli smo program
o higijeni i zdravlju
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that now touchesдодира halfпола a billionмилијарде people.
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koji trenutno broji
pola milijarde ljudi.
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It's not about sellingпродаја soapсапун,
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Ne radi se o
prodavanju sapuna,
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there is a largerвеће purposeсврха out there.
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tu postoji viši cilj.
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And brandsrobne marke indeedзаиста can be
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Brendovi zaista mogu da budu
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at the forefrontForefront of socialсоцијално changeпромена.
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predvodnici društvenih promena.
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And the reasonразлог for that is,
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Razlog leži u tome da,
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when two billionмилијарде people use your brandsrobne marke
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kada 2 milijarde ljudi
koristi tvoj brend,
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that's the amplifierpojačalu.
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to samo pojačava uticaj.
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SmallMali actionsакције can make a bigвелики differenceразлика.
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Mala dela prave veliku razliku.
04:33
Take anotherдруги exampleпример,
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Daću još jedan primer,
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I was walkingХодање around in
one of our villagesсела in IndiaIndija.
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šetao sam po jednom od sela u Indiji.
04:38
Now those of you who have doneГотово this
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Vi koji ste ovo radili
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will realizeсхватите that this is no walkходати in the parkпарк.
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znate da to baš i nije šetnja po parku.
04:45
And we had this ladyдама
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Tu vidimo ovu gospođu
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who was one of our smallмали distributorsDistributeri --
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koja je jedan od naših
manjih distributora.
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beautifulЛепа, very, very modestскромно, her home --
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Prelep, veoma skroman dom.
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and she was out there,
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I ona je bila tamo,
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dressedобучен nicelyлепо,
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lepo obučena,
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her husbandмуж in the back, her mother-in-lawsvekrva behindиза
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njen muž pozadi, svekrva iza
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and her sister-in-lawsvastika behindиза her.
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i zaova iza nje.
05:04
The socialсоцијално orderнаручи was changingпромена
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Društveni poredak se menjao
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because this ladyдама
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jer je ova žena
05:07
is partдео of our ProjectProjekat ShaktiShakti
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deo projekta Šakti
05:09
that is actuallyзаправо teachingУчити womenЖене
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koji uči žene
05:12
how to do smallмали businessбизнис
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kako da pokrenu posao
05:14
and how to carryносити the messageпорука
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i prenesu poruku
05:15
of nutritionисхрана and hygieneХигијена.
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o ishrani i higijeni.
05:17
We have 60,000 suchтаква womenЖене
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Trenutno u Indiji imamo
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now in IndiaIndija.
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60 hiljada takvih žena.
05:22
It's not about sellingпродаја soapсапун,
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Ne radi se o prodaji sapuna,
05:24
it's about makingстварање sure
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već da budete sigurni
05:25
that in the processпроцес of doing so
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da u tom procesu
05:27
you can changeпромена people'sљуди livesживи.
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menjate ljudske živote.
05:30
SmallMali actionsакције, bigвелики differenceразлика.
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Mala dela, velike razlike.
05:33
Our R&D folksљуди
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Ljudi u sektoru
za istrazivanje i razvoj
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are not only workingрад to give us
some fantasticфантастичан detergentsdeterdženata,
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ne rade da bi nam dali
sjajne deterdžente,
05:38
but they're workingрад to make sure we use lessмање waterвода.
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već da bismo koristili manje vode.
05:41
A productпроизвод that we'veми смо just launchedлансиран recentlyнедавно,
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Proizvod koji smo skoro lansirali,
05:43
One RinseIspiranje productпроизвод that allowsомогућава you to saveсачувати waterвода
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"One Rinse", omogućava uštedu vode
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everyсваки time you washпрање your clothesОдећа.
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pri svakom pranju.
05:49
And if we can convertпретворити all our usersкорисници to usingКористећи this,
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Ukoliko bi ga svi potrošači koristili
05:52
that's 500 billionмилијарде literslitara of waterвода.
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ušteda bi iznosila 50 milijardi litara.
05:54
By the way, that's equivalentеквивалент to one monthмесец дана of waterвода
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Uzgred, ista količina vode mesečno
05:56
for a wholeцела hugeогромно continentконтинент.
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dovoljna je da se snabde
jedan kontinent.
06:00
So just think about it.
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Samo razmislite o tome.
06:01
There are smallмали actionsакције that
can make a bigвелики differenceразлика.
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Male stvari prave veliku razliku.
06:05
And I can go on and on.
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Mogu da nabrajam i nabrajam.
06:06
Our foodхрана chainланац, our brilliantбрилијантно productsпроизводи --
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Naš lanac ishrane,
naši sjajni proizvodi,
06:09
and I'm sorry I'm givingдавање you
a wordреч from the sponsorsспонзори --
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izvinjavam se
zbog reklamiranja sponzora,
06:11
KnorrKnor, Hellman'sHellman je and all those wonderfulДивно productsпроизводи.
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Knorr, Hellman
i svi ti sjajni proizvodi.
06:15
We are committedпосвећен to makingстварање sure that
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Obavezani smo da se postaramo
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all our agriculturalпољопривредни rawсирово materialsматеријали
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da se poljoprivredne sirovine
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are sourcedod Borna from sustainableодржив sourcesизвори,
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dobijaju iz obnovljivih resursa,
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100-percent-posto sustainableодржив sourcesизвори.
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stopostotno obnovljivih.
Bili smo prvi
koji su svoje palmino ulje
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We were the first
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to say we are going to buyкупити all of our palmпалме oilуље
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dobijali iz potpuno obnovljivih izvora.
06:27
from sustainableодржив sourcesизвори.
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I don't know how manyмноги of you know that palmпалме oilуље,
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Ne znam koliko vas zna da palmino ulje
koje ne dobijamo iz obnovljivih resursa
06:33
and not buyingкупити it from sustainableодржив sourcesизвори,
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može da dovede do
krčenja šume odgovornog
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can createстворити deforestationкрчење шума that is responsibleодговоран
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za 20% uzroka za efekat staklene baste.
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for 20 percentпроценат of the greenhouseстаклена башта gassesgasovi in the worldсвет.
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We were the first to embraceзагрли that,
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Mi smo prvi koji su to prihvatili,
06:43
and it's all because we marketтржиште soapсапун and soupсупа.
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zbog toga što reklamiramo
sapun i supu.
06:48
And the pointтачка I'm makingстварање here
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Ono što hoću da kažem je
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is that companiesкомпаније like yoursтвоје, companiesкомпаније like mineмој
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da kompanije poput vaše,
poput moje
moraju da definišu cilj
06:53
have to defineдефинисати a purposeсврха
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koji prihvata odgovornost
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whichкоја embracesприхвата responsibilityодговорност
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i razume da moramo
odigrati svoju ulogu
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and understandsразуме that we have to playигра our partдео
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u zajednicama u kojim radimo.
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in the communitiesзаједнице in whichкоја we operateрадити.
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We introducedпредставио something calledпозвани
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Uveli smo nešto što se zove
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The UnileverUnilever SustainableOdrživi LivingŽive PlanPlan, whichкоја said,
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Održivi životni plan Unilevera,
koji glasi:
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"Our purposeсврха is to make
sustainableодржив livingживи commonplaceuobičajeno,
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Cilj je da stvorimo
održivo životno mesto,
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and we are gongGong to changeпромена the livesживи
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i da promenimo živote
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of one billionмилијарде people over 2020."
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milijarde ljudi do 2020. godine.
07:15
Now the questionпитање here is,
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Postavlja se pitanje
kuda da krenemo odavde?
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where do we go from here?
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And the answerодговор to that is very simpleједноставно:
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Odgovor je veoma jednostavan:
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We're not going to changeпромена the worldсвет aloneсами.
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nećemo sami menjati svet.
Mnogo je i vas i nas
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There are plentyдоста of you and plentyдоста of us
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who understandРазумем this.
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koji ovo razumemo.
07:27
The questionпитање is,
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Poenta je
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we need partnershipspartnerstva, we need coalitionskoalicija
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da su nam potrebna partnerstva,
koalicije,
07:31
and importantlyважно, we need that leadershipлидерство
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i najbitnije,
potrebno nam je vođstvo
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that will allowдозволите us to take this from here
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koje će nam dozvoliti
da preuzmemo odavde
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and to be the changeпромена
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i da budemo promena
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that we want to see around us.
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koju želimo da vidimo.
07:39
Thank you very much.
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Mnogo vam hvala.
07:40
(ApplauseAplauz)
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(Aplauz)
Translated by Jovana Kentic
Reviewed by Mile Živković

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Harish Manwani - COO, Unilever
Harish Manwani joined Unilever as a management trainee in 1976; he is now the company's chief operating officer.

Why you should listen

Harish Manwani is a Unilever man through and through. Having joined the company in 1976, he imagined that his time would be taken up with selling soap and soup. Not so, his then-boss told him. "You're here to change lives." It sounded far-fetched, but as the years went on and as he moved through the ranks of the corporation, Manwani began to understand his mentor's wisdom. Those words remain close to his heart even in his current role as the company's chief operating officer.

Now based in Singapore, Manwani graduated from Mumbai University and has a master's degree in management studies; he also attended the advanced management program at the Harvard Business School. He is the non-executive chairman of Hindustan Lever and a member of the executive board of the Indian School of Business.

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Harish Manwani | Speaker | TED.com

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