Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch reveals why she is a 'very difficult boss to work with'

Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch shared that for her, problem solving is like peeling the layers of an onion.

Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch recently gave an insight into her work life and shared why she has a "long list of colleagues" and bosses who find her very difficult to work with.

Speaking at the annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) on Saturday,  Buch said, "I have a long list of colleagues as well as bosses who will testify to the fact that I am not only a very difficult boss to work with but an almost impossible subordinate to work with because I just won't give up. Until a problem has been dissected to the last degree, I will not give up."

The Sebi chief also said that to her, problem solving is like peeling an onion.

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"It makes everybody cry in the process. But by the time you are done, peeling layer after layer after layer of the onion, you suddenly realise there is no problem left,” she said while addressing students of IIMA as the chief guest of the 59th annual convocation. Buch is the first woman to head the capital markets regulator-Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Sharing more workplace mantras, she added that she doggedly followed the mantra of doing what is right, no matter how hard, and leaving no stone unturned, no matter how hard. "I believe that at a conscious and a subconscious level, my mantra has been very very simple. Do the right thing, no matter how hard. Leave no stone unturned, no matter how hard. The wonderful thing about this mantra is that eight times out of ten you actually succeed. And the two times that you don’t, you have absolutely no regret,” she said.