Life stories of Indian and South East Asian business leaders
I have written two life story books on Indian business leaders and one on South East Asian business leaders. The first is Added Value - the life stories of leading South East Asian business people published in 1999 by Murmeli , the second is Added Value - the life stories of Indian business leaders published in 2010 by Roli Books (https://rolibooks.com/) and the third is Profiles in Enterprise - inspiring stories of Indian business leaders published in 2015 also by Roli Books.
Many people these days like to listen to audio books, podcasts and interviews rather than, or in addition to, reading books, magazines or newspapers. There were so many inspiring and extraordinary stories told to me by the subjects of my books that I thought podcast fans might like to hear the best of them in this podcast - https://lifestoriesofindianandsoutheastasianbusinessleaders.buzzsprout.com.
Life stories of Indian and South East Asian business leaders
GVK Reddy, born 22 March 1937, is a philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of GVK Group, a business conglomerate with a predominant focus on infrastructure development, https://www.gvk.com/
Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy (born 22 March 1937) is a philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the GVK Group (https://www.gvk.com) a major Indian business conglomerate with a predominant focus on infrastructure development. He also heads GVK EMRI, the corporate social responsibility initiatives of the GVK Group.
As the President of the All India Senior Tennis Association and a tennis player himself, he has been a keen supporter of budding tennis talent.
This episode is my reading of the chapter on his life in my book Added Value (Roli Books, 2010).
What are particularly interesting for me are the stories of his mischievous and boisterous childhood and how all this changed as a result of what happened in one class in school.
Please note that these interviews took place some time ago - over 25 years ago in the case of the South East Asian life story book and around 10 to 15 years ago in the case of the two Indian life story books. However, their stories are correct to the time of the interviews and the objective is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial skills they exhibited at the time of the interviews in building their businesses.