Inspiring stories and insights
This is a selection of resources on inspiring business experiences and figures in India available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
Freedom to fail: Lessons from my quest for startup success
Shabnam Aggarwal always dreamt of success. Raised in an immigrant Indian family in Silicon Valley, she believed that every entrepreneur could be successful. She left her job at Merrill Lynch to move to India, starting a company, taking a risk, finding her passion, and making a change in the world. Shabnam gives us a peek into the world of start-ups in India and provides insights into dealing with failure, the challenges of starting a business, and helping us learn from her experience.
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The inheritors: Stories of entrepreneurship and success
The Inheritors offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in Indian firms Marico, Dabur, Keventers, Berger Paints, Select Group, Antara, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Luxor and Motilal Oswal. The book focuses on culture, family politics, ego battles, business rivalries and more. For the inheritors themselves, some took the businesses to even greater heights while others led them to doom.
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This book is essentially a narrative of ONGC’s early days- How, when and where it was born, what was it like in its infancy, and finally how it overcame its teething troubles and growing pains. Learn about India’s only public sector company to feature in Fortune’s ‘Most Admired Energy Companies’ list, which overcame the determined opposition mounted by the vested western oil cartels who did not want India to have a national petroleum industry.
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This anthology features excerpts from business books published by Penguin Portfolio, showcasing some of the most eminent Indian business leaders such as M.S. Oberoi, Ratan Tata, Aditya Birla and Rahul Bajaj. Be inspired by their stories of outstanding successes, crushing failures, extraordinary challenges and relentless determination.
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Innovation stories from India Inc: Their story in their words
Learn more about the innovation journeys of India’s finest business leaders and their companies. Filled with anecdotes and real-life examples, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in business in India.
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Give work: Reversing poverty one job at a time
Founder and CEO of Samasource Leila Janah, whose family traces its roots back to India, shares that poverty is a problem we can solve by giving work. Samasource, a nonprofit organisation she founded for the purpose of outsourcing work from the tech industry to the bottom billions, has provided over $10 million in direct income to tens of thousands of people. Give Work features the stories of those who have benefited from Samasource and offers us a blueprint on how to change the world.
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The CEO Magazine (India & South Asia Edition)
The CEO Magazine is a source of information, inspiration and motivation for the world’s most successful leaders, executives, investors and entrepreneurs. It delves deep into both the professional and personal lives of business leaders.
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