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7th Book of 2020!
Reading books of autobiographical
accounts of entrepreneurs and successful people in the Hardcover format is the
ideal moment for me as a bibliophile. I have always found such books where I
didn’t know the man writing his story and after reading the book, I understood
what kind of success stories run in our country and world which we have not
even touched yet which can transform your life altogether just by reading their
life challenges. One such book that I finished today sitting at home in the
wake of Coronavirus is named “Irrationally Passionate” written by Mr. Jason
Kothari. It is his own story of his turnaround from being a rebel to becoming
an entrepreneur and then heading several companies as CEO and turning them
towards success.
In this 230-pages of
autobiographical account, you get to learn a lot from the life of Mr. Jason
Kothari as he starts the story right from one of his childhood events where he
is able to negotiate with a seller and get the chessboard at just Rs. 30 which makes
him realize that he has the quality of negotiating and turning things in his favour
which makes him get into the entrepreneurship space at just the age of 19 where
he is raising funds to save the company named Valiant which he followed since
his childhood. How he is able to go through the whole phase whereas his peers
were getting great job tells how dedicated and passionate he was towards his
passion of being an entrepreneur and doing what he believes in.
Similarly, how he saved
Housing.com by taking tough decisions such as closing the renting module to
concentrate on buying-selling module where people in the organization believed
that the renting module was The Thing. How he had to take tough call of laying
off employees is also an essential read to grasp the kind of toughness one
needs to go through this. How he had to keep a security agency look after him
as people in India went ahead and involved a local politician tells us how
difficult it is to do business in India and take calls where employees can lose
their job.
The author then spends his time
in explaining as to how he got involved in Snapdeal and Freecharge with no
prior interest of such industry and still managing to understand which all
sector to sell to ensure that the company is not losing money on things not
necessary to the core business. Between all this, author also discusses how
girls ditched him for marriage which made him weak yet made him learn his lessons.
Also, he talks about spirituality in the end how it helped him control emotions
and lead.
Author’s writing style is very
simple considering him to be one of the top league players which tells about
his intent of spreading as much positivity to youth as possible. The book is
not stretchy anywhere which makes it an easy read otherwise this could have
also been stretched for some 400 pages and more.
Talking about the drawbacks- I
felt that author didn’t go in much details in each of his adventures discussed
in the book which doesn’t give you complete picture as to how he fought against
small issues in organization which can create big impacts. He only discussed
things on strategical basis. I was keen to know how he dealt with petty issues
of organization etc. Also, at many places, how the profit started initializing
is not mentioned which doesn’t give much clarity. Due to these few factors, it
felt as if we have read the book by fast-forwarding it even when you have
ensured that you are reading in between lines.
Overall, this is a great book if
you wish to be an entrepreneur or stay in Top-managerial position in the
hierarchy. I give this book 3.75* out of 5.
Thanks.
WRITING BUDDHA
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