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  • Written by: Saurabh Mukherjea
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Publisher's Summary

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 percent revenue growth over the last 10 years and 15 percent 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, best-selling 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.

©2016 Saurabh Mukherjea (P)2018 Random House Audio

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passion and disciplined effort pays

if you are interested in share market ..or want to build a brand name and business ...you will enjoy it..

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Slow, Boring but insightful

the book is real slow.. the case studies are good.. the analysis at times leaves you with paralysis.. but overall a book to hold as reference point

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Great insights

While there are certain principles to quickly identify a good company but building it is so difficult. This book goes into the details how they built it!

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interesting viewpoint

well explained, giving examples for each selected company. useful for investors and students alike. great.

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Valuable insights on finding good companies


Saurabh Mukherjea has done a fabulous job and his knowledge shows in this book. What I liked about this book is the fact that how the author has not only given what according to him the FAE companies are, he has also laid down the methodology to identify such businesses in future in a manner that anyone can understand and implement. In a world where many investment books are based majorly on the US economy, this is a welcome change. It would have been even better if the author himself could have read/narrated this book but it's a great book nonetheless.

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Superb book

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

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Nice book

A book that provides insights into how companies have proven successful over time. Valuable lessons offered.

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A beautiful book

Lovely audible. Loved every chapter. A must for all investors investing for the long term.

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Good book

liked the history explained behind each companies quite interesting a b c d e f

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Good insights but not great writing

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.

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