Gita Piramal

The Inside Track To India&Rsquo;S Most Powerful Tycoons The Eight Business Maharajas Profiled Here Are Among Asia&Rsquo;S Most Powerful Industrial Tycoons, Their Combined Turnover Runs Into Billions Of Rupees, And Between Them They Employ Some 650,000 People, While Indirectly Affecting The Lives Of Millions More. Sip A Cup Of Tea, Drive To Work, Listen To Music, Build A House&Hellip;And The Chances Are That In These And A Myriad Other Ways You Are Using Products That They Manufacture Or Market. By Any Yardstick, The Achievements Of These Men Would Rank Among The Great Business Stories Of Our Time. How Did These Men Build Their Enormous Empires? What Are Their Management Secrets? How Did They Thrive And Prosper Even As Others Failed? What Is Their Vision For The Future? Top Business Writer And Industry Insider Gita Piramal Draws On Exhaustive Interviews And In-Depth Research To Discover The Answers To These And Related Questions In Her Profiles Of The Men Who Will Lead The Country&Rsquo;S Push To Become An Industrial Superpower In The 21St Century.

Business Maharajas

The Golden age of Indian industry, as it now seems in retrospect, lasted from 1951 to "62. and industrialists of the lime were not afraid to think ahead and plan big. Among the entrepreneurs who led this Industrial resurgence, four were particularly outstanding, G.D. Birla, Walchand Hirachand, Kasturbhai Lalbhai and, J.R.D. Tata. Gita Piramal, author of the acclaimed Business Maharajas, sensitively recreates the Lives and Times of these four titans of industry. She draws upon hitherto untapped sources of information to Sketch her profiles, making htis perhaps the closest Look at these legends this fair. Thought provoking and incisive. Business Legends is a compelling Account of ambition and achievement.

Business Legends

G.D. Birla, J.R.D. Tata, Walchand Hirachand And Kasturbhai Lalbhai--Four Pioneers Who Were Not Afraid To Think Ahead And Plan Big, At A Time When Indian Industry Had To Compete Fiercely For Market Share Against The Multinationals Of The Day. Together, They Would Lay The Foundations For The Golden Age Of Indian Industry From 1951 To '62. In This Bestselling Book, The Closest Look At These Legends This Far, Gita Piramal Compellingly Brings Alive Their Ambition And Achievement.

Sumantra Ghoshal

Christopher A. Bartlett

What Indian Companies Must Do To Become World-Class An Invaluable Roadmap For Indian Executives Who Strive To Excel Winner Of The Dma Escorts Book Award 2000 Managing Radical Change: What Indian Companies Must Do To Become World-Class Looks At What Companies In India Must Do To Rank Among The Best In Their Strategy, Organization And Management. The Authors, Internationally Acclaimed Management Gurus Sumantra Ghoshal And Christopher A. Bartlett And Industry Insider Gita Piramal, Say That Managers Are Aware Of The Need For A Radical Response To The Problems And Challenges Posed By The New Competitive, Technological And Market Demands In India. But, Believing That Change Can Come Only By Degrees, They Hesitate To Initiate Action. The Key Purpose Of This Book Is To Make Managers Believe That Radical Performance Improvement Is Possible. Ghoshal, Piramal And Bartlett Feel That Managers Are The Best Teachers Of Managers, And So Managing Radical Change Is A Distillation Of Lessons Offered By People As Diverse As N.R. Narayana Murthy And Brijmohan Lall Munjal, Keki Dadiseth And Dhirubhai Ambani, Azim Premji And Rohinton Aga, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal And Subhash Chandra, Rahul Bajaj And Parvinder Singh. There Is A Wealth Of Information On The Best Companies In India And Worldwide, Among Them Infosys, Wipro, Reliance, Hindustan Lever, Ge And Abb. Lucidly Written And Brilliantly Argued, Managing Radical Change Is Perhaps The Most Significant Contribution To Indian Management Literature In Recent Times.

What Indian Companies Must Do to Become World-class

Managing Radical Change

Business Mantras, business at it best,Why are some people more successfull than others?,What drives super achievers?,How is their thinking radically diffrent?What does vision mean and how important are values?These are some of the issues covered in this punchy collection of Business WISDOM from the finest minds in industry and management. Including here are G.D. Birla, J.R.D. Tata, Azim Premji, N.R. Narayana Murthy, V. Kurien, Sumantra Ghoshal et al. Their perceptive Observations on management skills, growth and Motivation are of special relevance in the Context of a globalizing Economy and make this collection, carefully edited by leadin business athor Gita Piramal and Mukund Beriwala, a one-stop guide to business success.

Business Mantras

The inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.

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