The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time
Chandra, Subhash
The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time - Noida Harper Collins Publishers India 2017 - 282
Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group, is an unlikely mogul. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, he’d had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Always a risk-taker, Chandra then had the vision of getting into broadcasting early, even as established media players failed to see its potential. His Zee TV, India’s first private Indian TV channel, changed the rules of the game. The Z Factor is a candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who continues to reinvent himself – he is now a Rajya Sabha MP as well as a major player in the field of infrastructure.
Contents:
Small Beginnings
A Crisis In the Family
Thinking Out of the Box
Young Man on the make
Between the Sheets
Diversifying Into Packaging
Pole-Vaulting to a Higher Plane
The Russians are coming
Of Rice....and Avarice
A Late-Night Meeting with Mrs G
Good Things come in Small Packages
A Rough Roller-Coaster Ride
Broadcasting My Intentions
The $5 Million Gamble
It's Showtime, Folks
Who Will Manage The Managers
The Newsroom
A Rocky Partnership
Setting My House in Order
Friends and Enemies
Losing $6 Billion
It's Not Cricket
Calming Influences
The Art of Management
A Satellite Project Runs Aground
Stabbed In the Back
New Horizons
Epilogue
978-93-5277-093-9
Allied Informatics, Jaipur
Economics
Entrepreneurship
384.5520954 / CHA
The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time - Noida Harper Collins Publishers India 2017 - 282
Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group, is an unlikely mogul. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, he’d had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Always a risk-taker, Chandra then had the vision of getting into broadcasting early, even as established media players failed to see its potential. His Zee TV, India’s first private Indian TV channel, changed the rules of the game. The Z Factor is a candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who continues to reinvent himself – he is now a Rajya Sabha MP as well as a major player in the field of infrastructure.
Contents:
Small Beginnings
A Crisis In the Family
Thinking Out of the Box
Young Man on the make
Between the Sheets
Diversifying Into Packaging
Pole-Vaulting to a Higher Plane
The Russians are coming
Of Rice....and Avarice
A Late-Night Meeting with Mrs G
Good Things come in Small Packages
A Rough Roller-Coaster Ride
Broadcasting My Intentions
The $5 Million Gamble
It's Showtime, Folks
Who Will Manage The Managers
The Newsroom
A Rocky Partnership
Setting My House in Order
Friends and Enemies
Losing $6 Billion
It's Not Cricket
Calming Influences
The Art of Management
A Satellite Project Runs Aground
Stabbed In the Back
New Horizons
Epilogue
978-93-5277-093-9
Allied Informatics, Jaipur
Economics
Entrepreneurship
384.5520954 / CHA