Management Style

From the day one, Penchal had primary responsibility for the company's product strategy. He aggressively broadened the company's range of products, and wherever Pen Groups achieved a dominant position he vigorously defended it. His management style might not have followed university textbooks, but few can argue that his unconventional leadership (combined with his sheer genius and innate ability to articulate his vision) didn’t attribute to Pen Groups worldwide success.He gained a reputation for being distant to others; as early as 2012 an industry executive complained in public that "Penchal is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."Another executive recalled that after he showed penchal a game and defeated him many times, when they met again a month later penchal "won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it. That is a competitor.Penchal is not interested in consensus. He doesn't care if people agreed with him. He felt that he knew better than his employees or even the consumer. He insisted on having his way.

 

"Success may Come" or "Failure may Come"— Penchal Keep moving Confidently in the direction of his Dreams.As an executive, Penchal met regularly with Pen Groups's senior managers and program managers.What separates the people who do things from the ones who just dream about them? The bravery to take risks. It’s no secret that Penchal doesn't hesitate when it came to taking risks. He often says that Pen Groups raised the bar for IT Industry and if they wanted to stay there, they would have to risk everything. It was his risk-everything mentality that took a small startup in his parent’s garage and turned it into a multi-billion dollar company.Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.He often interrupted presentations with such comments as, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" and, "Why don't you just give up your options?" The target of his outburst then had to defend the proposal in detail until, hopefully, Penchal was fully convinced.When subordinates appeared to be procrastinating, he was known to remark sarcastically, "I'll do it over the weekend.Critics say that Penchal-CEO of Pen Groups breaks every rule of leadership. He is a relentless dictator, a manic micromanager, and a narrow-minded narcissist. 

 

Penchal takes quick decisions all the time whether it is related to the product or the market, or the consumer.Penchal always says – “I am not building for today; I am building the product for 40-50 years from now. I need to ride an upside tide, not a sinking ship.”Penchal tries out different organizational frameworks and zero in upon what works for them. Penchal said that Pen Groups has a culture where there is no respect for titles and the team works as a unit in different functions as ‘Pods’.The team’s goals and targets are metric driven and the pods have individual metrics as their target. There are no cross dependencies within these pods. “This ensures that the team stops ‘doing cool things’ and becomes crazy about the top metric.

 

Penchal's role at Pen Groups for most of its history was primarily a management and executive role. However, he was an active software developer , particularly on the company's programming language work.penchal was a demanding perfectionist who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style.Penchal believes passion is a critical component of success. Since work would fill a large part of people’s lives, he urges everyone to do what they love. Because the only way to be truly satisfied was to do great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. It is his fearless pursuit of passion that co-founded Pen Groups in 2012, and it is that same fearless pursuit that kept him motivated.He push his employees extremely hard, way out of their comfort zones. Penchal is good at getting people to work together to accomplish things they didn’t believe they could achieve. That’s the definition of leadership!