Men of steel motivates students to achieve their goal.
This is about 11 businessmen of india who has touched the sky with their own values and principle.
2. MEN OF STEEL
India’s business leaders in candid conversation with
VIR SANGHVI
By:
Ms. Dipali Pandya
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3. Let’s have a look
• Introduction
• About the Author
• What will I get from “THIS”?
• Review of the Book
• Conclusion
• References
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5. Introduction
• This book involves in-depth profiles of India’s biggest business
barons.
• It has got a ‘biographic’ feel about it, which brings to us lesser
known facts about India’s top business leaders.
• The book is a summary of journey of the lives of the ‘great’
business Minds of India.
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8. Vir Sanghvi
• Vir Sanghvi is an Indian print and television journalist, columnist, and
talk show host. Currently, he is an Editorial Director of the Hindustan
Times.
• He is a member of National Integration Council.
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9. • He hosted a number of programs
for the STAR Network. His shows
like:
• “A Question of Answers”
• “Cover Story and Star Talk”.
• In 2006-07, he anchored two
shows for NDTV, India's leading
English news channel - “Face the
Music and One on One”.
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11. Nandan Nilekani
MD & CEO, Infosys
• Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur
and the Chairman of the Unique
Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
• After a successful career at Infosys, he is
now heading the Government of India's
technology committee, Technology
Advisory Group for Unique Projects
(TAGUP).
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12. • In this book Mr. Sanghvi quotes,
‘that my approach to life
was too cerebral. I was
told that I was too much
of an observer. If I was
going to lead an
organization then I
needed to show passion. I
needed to allow people to
connect with me.’
• For Mr. Nilekani, Infosys is an Idea, he
replied that we can owe our success
to ideas not to labour and machinery
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14. • Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian
industrialist and the Chairman of the Aditya
Birla Group.
• He is also the Chancellor of the Birla
Institute of Technology & Science.
• Kumar Mangalam has created a sub-brand
within the Birla image: the Aditya birla group
with its distinctive logo.
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15. “…A brand is not about
individuals, whatever
it stands for is really a
tribute to the team we
have created…”
• He replaced “womb-to-tomb”
policy with introducing the
retirement policy.
• Under his leadership the turnover
has increased to Rs 34,000 crore.
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16. Sunil Bharti Mittal
Chairman & MD, Bharti Group
• Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian telecom
mogul, philanthropist and the
founder, chairman and Group CEO of Bharti
Enterprises.
• He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs
to identify the mobile telecom business as a
major growth area and launched services in
the city of Delhi and the National Capital
Region in the year 1995.
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17. • He established the first company to
manufacture push button telephones in
India.
• He says,
“….I told my people that I
knew that we were not
expected to win. But I would
tell them, if we can win
against the odds, then we
make history.”
• In 2007, he was awarded the Padma
Bhushan, India's third highest civilian
honor.
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18. RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR
Former Chairman & CEO, BPL Mobile
• Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian businessman
• He has worked for Intel as a part of the Intel
Pentium design team.
• He founded BPL Mobile in India, and currently
runs Jupiter Capital, a venture capital investment
company focusing on
infrastructure, Aviation Entertainment and
Technology.
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19. Azim Premji
Chairman & MD, Wipro Limited
• Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business
tycoon and philanthropist who is the
chairman of Wipro Limited.
• According to Forbes, he is currently the
third wealthiest Indian, and the 41st
richest in the world.
• In 2000, he was voted among the 20 most
powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.
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20. • He says,
‘ I was brought up
to believe that
values are more important
than money’.
He is a man of principle.
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21. SUBHASH CHANDRA
Chairman, Zee Telefilms and Essel Group
• Mr. Chandra is rightly referred to as the
Media Moghul of India.
• He revolutionized the television industry
by launching the country's first satellite
television channel Zee TV in 1992 and
later the first private news channel, Zee
News.
• He is known as the multi-millionaire
father of the Indian commercial TV
revolution.
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22. • He is credited with tremendous business astuteness, Mr.
Chandra has charted a course of growth and success,
unparalleled in business history.
• All of his ventures are path-breaking in nature, be it Essel
Propack, the largest specialty packaging company in the world;
Asia's largest amusement park Essel World; or the first satellite
television in India Zee TV.
• He says,
‘ I am an entrepreneur,
I know that
I can create something
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23. BIKKI OBEROI
Vice Chairman & MD, East India Hotels
• Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi is the Chairman
and Chief executive officer of EIH Limited, the
flagship company of India’s The Oberoi Group,
which runs a chain of luxury hotels, Oberoi
Hotels & Resorts.
• Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, better known to the
world as Bikki Oberoi.
• In 2008, the Government of India awarded
Oberoi with the Padma Vibhushan.
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24. • He served as a Director of Jet Airways (India) Limited since March
29, 2004.
• He was recognized as the “Corporate Hotelier of the World” by
Hotels magazine.
• The guest is always right.
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25. NUSLI WADIA
Chairman, Wadia Group of Companies
• Nusli Wadia is an Indian Parsi entrepreneur, a
textile magnate and an important person in
the real-estate business.
• He is the son of Neville Wadia and Dina Jinnah.
He is the grand son of Founder of
Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• The Economic Times once described Nusli
Wadia as "the epitome of South Mumbai's old
money and genteel respectability".
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26. • Mr. Wadia is the chairman and majority
owner of Bombay Dyeing, a major Indian
textile company.
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27. UDAY KOTAK
Vice Chairman & MD, Kotak Group of Companies
• Uday Kotak is an Indian businessman.
He is the vice-chairman and
managing director of Kotak Mahindra
Bank.
• He owns a 50% stake in Kotak
Mahindra Bank, which he founded
and runs.
• In 2006 he ended a 14 year
partnership with Goldman Sachs.
Mr. Kotak – Financial Wizard
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28. • His certain beliefs are:
To concentrate on substance and not
form
To believe in value system and not
profits and
To recognize importance of process
as well, when an institution is being
built, there is no substitute for
process.
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29. VIJAY MALLYA
Chairman, UB Group
• Vijay Mallya is an Indian industrialist and
a second-time member of India's
parliament.
• He is the chairman of the UB Group – an
Indian conglomerate, with diverse
interests in brewing, distilling,
aviation, pharmaceuticals, real estate,
engineering, fertilizers, biotechnology and
information technology.
• I am the brand ambassador of Kingfisher.
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31. Ratan Tata
Chairman, Tata Group
• Ratan Tata is an Indian businessman who
became chairman of the Tata Group from
1991 to 2012, a Mumbai-based
conglomerate.
• Awards: Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan
• Tata began his career in the Tata group in
1962; he initially worked on the shop floor
of Tata Steel, shoveling limestone and
handling the blast furnace.
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36. Conclusion
• To conclude with a common aspect of all the success stories are
that all of them have had their shares of problems, challenges, fear,
loneliness and desire to run away at one or more stages of their
lives.
• “Men of Steel” – for a common man
“To rise, fall,
again stand
and be
the BEST”
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37. References
• “Men of Steel”, Vir Sanghvi, Roli Books, 2008
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfzUB85ms-s
• http://virsanghvi.com/About-Vir.aspx
• www.jvatv.com
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