Sri Lanka faced with unparalleled growth for prosperity- Thiyagaraja

Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI

Rajendra Thyagaraja	Ishan Danthanarayana	Duminda Rathnayake

Sri Lanka is faced with an unparalleled growth for prosperity and the future leaders must have the right focus to get the benefit of emerging opportunities. Acting Chairman and Managing Director Hatton National Bank Rajendra Thiyagaraja said at the CEO Forum titled “Entering the Corporate Arena “ at Hilton Hotel Colombo yesterday.

He was addressing university students from the different parts of the country at the event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce for the third concurrent year for the benefit of university students.

Thyagaraja said that there is a spirit of entrepreneurship in all of them and they need to adopt themselves to the cultures of the organizations and improve communication skills which is very important. Etisalat CEO Duminda Rathnayake said today’s challenge is to build right attitude and willingness to work with passion to achieve the best. “Your job is to facilitate the employees and it is necessary to understand the difficulties of those people to do it right, so be passionate on what you do,” he said.

Group Chief People Officer Brandix , Ishan Danthanarayana said there is a search for future leaders today and university students should stay competitive enhancing skills as the war is for talents. He said life long training is a must as there is no relevance in what was learnt many years ago today.

Vice President AMACHM P Nanayakkara moderated the forum.