The 90-minute test: Anand Mahindra’s secret to hiring leaders who drive growth

Anand Mahindra’s trade secret for hiring top leadership is disarmingly simple: a 90-minute, unstructured conversation. No scorecards, no preset questions—just an attempt to observe one thing: curiosity, and how a leader will behave when there are no scripts to follow, when no one is watching. At its core, Mahindra’s model links leadership, risk, and execution into a single system—one that allows the group to place early bets without losing strategic discipline.Mahindra outlined these ideas in a recent inter ...