Ambani Brothers
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Publisher: Pentagon Press
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Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9788186830628
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GAS WARS
Author: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Publisher: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Published: 2014-03-30
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 8192855139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrime minister of India Manmohan Singh has been accused of changing ministerial portfolios at the behest of the Reliance group. There have been claims that the group deliberately ‘squatted’ on reserves of natural gas and curtailed production in anticipation of higher prices that are administered by the government, to the detriment of the interests of the country’s people. Spokespersons of the group deny these alligations and contend that gas output from the Krishna-Godavari basin came down on account of unforeseen adverse geological surprises. Sections within the Indian government do not buy these arguments. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has alleged, among other things, that the contract between the government and Reliance Industries Limited is deeply flawed, thereby encouraging excessive capital expenditure and lowering potential benefits to the exchequer. With painstaking research, a meticulous perusal of press reports, as well as a few surprising exclusives, Gas Wars highlights cases of crony capitalism that allowed the Reliance group to blatantly exploit loopholes which were consciously retained in the system to benefit it. The book points out how, even when laws and policies appeared fair, rational, and reasonable, the way in which these rules and procedures were framed and implemented by bureaucrats acting at the behest of their political masters exposed the deep nexus between business and politics in India. Even as Gas Wars tells the story of how a corporate conglomerate, in this case the country’s largest, has benefited from the way government policies are structured, it lays bare the alarming facts of a natural disaster waiting to happen due to the ruthless exploitation of the country’s natural resources in order to swell the fortunes of a few. The book also highlights the examples of those within the government establishment who have refused to be intimidated by the rich and the powerful, and who have against all odds valiantly attempted to uphold the interests of the people of India.
Ambani & Sons
Author: Hamish McDonald
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Published: 2012-11-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 8174369430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHamish McDonald is Asia-Pacific Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has been a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and New Delhi, where he was bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has twice won Walkley awards, and has had a report on Burma read into the record of the US Congress. He is the author of books on Indonesia and India, and was made an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2008.
Ambani and Ambani
Author: Tarun Engineer
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
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Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9350830760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe presented volume deals with the dazzling rise of Dhirubhai able to create unprecedented waves of success in the world of business. Dhirubhai Ambani tops that distinguished list. He dared to dream; and he realized it through imagination, a unique business style and dare. Welcome to the latest biography of Dhirubhai by Tarun Engineer; he- has also included the life and times of Mukesh and Anil in a finely created text. A good background alone cannot catapult a man to the success platform. Don't try to change things; rather, change yourself. Dhirubhai created a business empire because he believed in himself as well as he changed himself according to the demands of markets. Thus spoke Dhirubhai, "If thinking is different from those of all others, if it is fastest and foremost and the objective is to constantly improve, then no one can defeat you!" The volume also describes the initial stages of a bitter business war between Anil and Mukesh, the two sons of Dhirubhai. Mukesh and Anil have the same objectives, thinking and modus operandi. However, their feud has become bitter by the day. This volume gives a brief description of the same. In this volume, the two sons of Kokilaben have been described as brave warriors. They are siblings nevertheless! Mukesh has become one of the richest persons by amassing a wealth of over Rs. 87.000 crore. By 2012 AD, he would be the industrialist with maximum cash capital in the world. Anil is not far behind. He has earned Rs. 56,384 crore till date. His capital is to the tune of US$ 85 billion. Welcome the new kings of global business, in this very volume! After all, they are the sons of a legend!
Dhirubhai Ambani A Complete Biography
Author: N. Chokkan
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2023-01-28
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9355213980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an important biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of India’s biggest business house, Reliance. He was born in Gujarat, started his business in Mumbai, and was very successful in all his ventures. He used the method of backward integration to fulfil all his dreams and turned them into a reality. His success helped India and it had a major impact on India’s industrial growth. Dhirubhai Ambani can be quoted as an example of ‘self-made man’. If a person who did not have any prior experience or proper guidance has over- come every obstacle that life has thrown on his way and reached the pinnacle, then there must be many lessons that could be learnt from his life. This book analyzes and presents these lessons in a highly coherent style.
Demystifying Leadership
Author: Asha Kaul
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-07-18
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9354351093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan leadership lessons be learnt from the Mahabharata? Demystifying Leadership positively asserts that we can and probes inquiry in the lives of six characters-Bhishma, Ashvatthama, Karna, Shakuni, Kunti and Krishna. It studies these characters in inescapable situations as they navigate through life by demonstrating values, decision-making ability, integrity and principles. Within the given constraints, some of these characters swim and rise, while others sink in moral turpitude. Extrapolating these successful and not-so-successful character traits to corporate leaders and linking them to scholarship, the authors provide lessons for leaders and managers operating in diverse situations. Borrowing from different disciplines, such as literature, philosophy, politics and psychology, Demystifying Leadership proposes to link essentials of leadership in the form of a Leadership Triangle comprising six levels: positive personality, peace with personal identity, purpose, positive use of power and politics, paradoxical leadership and principled pragmatism. It takes a grounded approach in amalgamating mythology and leadership through scholarship and practice.
Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television
Author: Shoma Munshi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1000052249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular". In its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian "mediascape" over the past decade – including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple screens have changed soap viewing forever. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, the book traces how prime time soaps in India still grab the maximum eyeballs and remain the biggest earners for TV channels. The book will be of interest to students of anthropology and sociology, media and cultural studies, visual culture studies, gender and family studies, and also Asian studies in general. It is also an important resource for media producers, both in content production and television channels, as well as for the general reader.
The Ultra High Net Worth Banker's Handbook
Author: Heinrich Weber
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
Published: 2009-08-10
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1905641753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explains what constitutes an ultra high net worth individual and how to provide financial services to these wealthy individuals.
Real Leaders Negotiate!
Author: Jeswald W. Salacuse
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1137591153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the central role of negotiation in gaining, exercising, and retaining leadership within organizations, large and small, public and private. Its aim is to instruct readers on the way to use negotiation to lead effectively. For far too long conventional wisdom has proposed that strong leaders refuse to negotiate, viewing negotiation as a sign of weakness. Leading people requires charisma, vision, and a commanding presence, not the tricks for making deals. For many executives, negotiation is a tool to use outside the organization to deal with customers, suppliers, and creditors. Inside the organization, it’s strictly “my way or the highway.” Salacuse explains that leaders can increase their effectiveness by using negotiation in each of the three phases of the leadership lifecycle: 1) leadership attainment, 2) leadership action; and 3) leadership preservation and loss. Drawing on experience in wide variety of settings, including the author’s own leadership positions, the book will examine high profile leadership cases such as the rise and fall of Carly Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard, the skillful negotiations by Warren Buffet to save Salomon Brothers from extinction, and the successful efforts by the partners at Goldman Sachs to negotiate a new vision and direction for that financial giant. Leaders and managers should pick up this book to learn how effective negotiation is essential to both gaining and exercising leadership and to overcoming threats to a leader’s position.
Storms in the Sea Wind: Ambani vs Ambani
Author: Alam Srinivas
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9351940799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid Dhirubhai Ambani know about the tensions between his two sons, Mukesh and Anil? Did the patriarch merge RIL and Reliance Petroleum to prevent a future split in the Reliance group? What were the reasons for the frenetic growth of the Ambanis in just about three decades and the subsequent division in less than three years after Dhirubhai's death? What were Dhirubhai's traits that kept the Ambani family together? What were the differences in Mukesh's and Anil's personalities that led to their falling apart? Did mother Kokilaben play a role in bringing about a 'truce' between her two sons? How was the war between Mukesh and Anil fought? Why does the fight continue today even after the 'truce' between the two brothers? A blow-by-blow account of the Ambani saga by noted business journalist Alam Srinivas, who has tracked the Reliance group for twenty years.
