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The Unusual Billionaires

Written by: Saurabh Mukherjea
Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa
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 What makes a company truly outstanding?
What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?
What is common to Asian Paints, HDFC Bank, Marico, Axis Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Berger Paints?
They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 per cent revenue growth over the last ten years and 15 per cent return on capital employed. In simple words, these companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth while maintaining profitability year-on-year for the last decade. How did these companies do it? Why couldn’t this be reciprocated by other companies? What are they doing differently?
Saurabh Mukherjea, bestselling author of Gurus of Chaos, delivers an outstanding book with lessons to learn from these eight businesses. Mukherjea tells you why focusing on the core business could save a company’s life or how giving control to top management could be a boon. Packed with these learnings are riveting corporate stories of how Hindustan Unilever made aggressive bids to buy Mariwala’s business, but had to sell it to the same company in a few years, or how Page Industries found an exciting way to stop unionization at their manufacturing units. It also includes the turnaround of Axis Bank and the boardroom coup that led to its chairman’s downfall, and how Vijay Mallya lost control of Asian Paints to the Dhingra Brothers.
These and many more makes this book a mandatory read for all corporate leaders to simulate and implement. Business Leaders Economics Professionals & Academics
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Good book with lot of insight into brand building and struggles that organizations face to come up, enjoyed listening in audible.

Saurabh at his best....

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The insights on identifying long term winners and what drove success of these 7 companies was useful. however, lot of content was repetitive and could have been presented more crisply.

Good insights but not great writing

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While the research and stories mentioned in this book is excellent, there are dozens and dozens of repetative sections which waste significant time. Also there should be a repetative caviat about this books publishing time and research time. Book contains data from 2015.

Too much repeatation

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Enjoyed the book all the way, everybody who needs to go to business/stock market must read this book

Superb book

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Great insight in context of Indian companies and work environment. Enjoyed understanding many small but important points.

Captivating

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