Mukesh Ambani sets goals for children, cites Lionel Messi to explain leadership

On Reliance Family Day, Ambani said winning in business takes leadership and teamwork, citing Messi and Argentina’s victory at the FIFA world cup 2022

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has a pan-India 5G mobile network rollout plan by 2023-end, chasing more ambitious goals in retail and making Reliance India's greenest corporate as goals for his three children as he cited the example of Messi to explain leadership and teamwork.

Speaking to company employees at his father and founder Dhirubhai's birth anniversary, celebrated as Reliance Family Day, he said the oil-to-telecom-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. has embarked on a journey of comprehensive self-transformation.

Mr. Ambani, who had first spoken of a succession plan at India's most valuable company at the 2021 Reliance Family Day, has identified three verticals for his three children – telecom and digital business for elder son Akash, retail for twin sister Isha and new energy business for youngest son Anant.

And on Reliance Family Day on Wednesday, the chairman and managing director of the $104 billion conglomerate spoke of the goal three have to achieve.

His speech was released to the media on Thursday.

"Years will roll. Decades will pass. Reliance will continue to grow bigger and bigger, like the proverbial Banyan tree... its branches will spread wider, its roots will go deeper, and it will touch the lives of an ever-increasing number of Indians, enriching them, empowering them, nourishing them, and caring for them," he said.

He said Reliance will complete its 50 years in the next five years and he wants to spell out its expectations from the leaders and employees.