It really happened in India!- A Book review.

I completed this book, almost in single sitting. And found this really good book. There is a ton of new things in the book, which we can adopt in day-to-day professional life.

Mainly, Kishore talks about how to dream big and convert that dream in to reality. This is book about step by step process of building a business group, starting from a humble beginning. Starting with Pantaloon retain, how Kishore build the big business empire ranging from apparel, home solutions, grocery and micro-retail (Focusing on retail in rural India), is really an astonishing story.

There are few new things which captured my mind. The idea of empowering managers of all level, there by building an organization which is known for making decisions and owing that. Like painting employee’s house on the eve of Diwali (Best known HR policy!). Coming up with new business structure every three years in order to be in business, up-to-date.

Innovative thinking or ‘re-writing’ the rules keeping the basic values intact is one thing which is being referred through out the book. Kishore writes, “An Organization dominated by systems, analyses and processes, will only be good at repeatedly performing one particular task very well. But it wouldn’t be able to innovate or create something really new”.

What stuck me is Kishore’s focus on business growth. He says, ‘if you focus more on operation, there is a limit to an extent you can improve the efficiency, rather then that companies need to focus on growth, operational efficiency comes by itself by following well defined processes”.

This book is all about having a dream and working to make it come true. It is a dream of middle class man, with all possible limitations one could have in life. Paulo Coelho writes in The Alchemist, ‘And, when you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it’.

It is all about that, having a dream and following that! In summary, it is a must read.

Finally; wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year 2008. May your all dreams come true in this New Year.