Ask any celebrated author to share some words of advice for the budding writers and he/she is bound to talk about the importance of reviewing – editing - one’s work before making it public. Making the most of one’s flowing creativity and putting thoughts on paper in a hurry is one thing, whereas going through that output and separating wheat from waste is a different business altogether. Sadly, most Indian authors fail at the crucial final step. This book falls under that category.
A friend gifted me this book, stating that the author is one of the renowned businessmen in Maharashtra and an inspiring figure for aspiring entrepreneurs. Infected by her enthusiasm, I picked the book, hoping to get some long-awaited inspiration to start something on my own. But, alas, what a disappointment this book has given me!
Dr. Suresh Haware, a nuclear scientist-turned-builder-turned-politician, has attempted to share his experience and wisdom on entrepreneurship with the budding businessmen out there. While the motive is very much commendable, the style of expression falls far behind. By reading the title, one is bound to believe that this book is about the various ways of raising capital for starting one’s business. However, except for the dabbling at the first few pages, the author moves on to an ambitious attempt at teaching every other aspect of running a business, which becomes the downfall for this book.
Instead of dwelling on specific guidance, the book contains generic advice that gets repeated in every chapter. With incoherent, repetitious writing style, shoddy spelling (’Procter & Gambel’), glaring grammatical mistakes (‘towing the line’), glaring errors in facts (the name of the disgraced Satyam Computer Services founder is mentioned as ‘Mahalingam Raju’ instead of Ramalingam Raju), this book makes reading quite a toil.
While the intention of the author – to inspire youngsters to become ‘businessmen’ and create wealth for the nation - deserves praise for sure, his book doesn’t. Except for being good in patches, very small ones at that, the book doesn’t carry much that one cannot learn through basic common sense and observation.
Buy this book with someone else’s money, if you don’t want to waste yours.
A friend gifted me this book, stating that the author is one of the renowned businessmen in Maharashtra and an inspiring figure for aspiring entrepreneurs. Infected by her enthusiasm, I picked the book, hoping to get some long-awaited inspiration to start something on my own. But, alas, what a disappointment this book has given me!
Dr. Suresh Haware, a nuclear scientist-turned-builder-turned-politician, has attempted to share his experience and wisdom on entrepreneurship with the budding businessmen out there. While the motive is very much commendable, the style of expression falls far behind. By reading the title, one is bound to believe that this book is about the various ways of raising capital for starting one’s business. However, except for the dabbling at the first few pages, the author moves on to an ambitious attempt at teaching every other aspect of running a business, which becomes the downfall for this book.
Instead of dwelling on specific guidance, the book contains generic advice that gets repeated in every chapter. With incoherent, repetitious writing style, shoddy spelling (’Procter & Gambel’), glaring grammatical mistakes (‘towing the line’), glaring errors in facts (the name of the disgraced Satyam Computer Services founder is mentioned as ‘Mahalingam Raju’ instead of Ramalingam Raju), this book makes reading quite a toil.
While the intention of the author – to inspire youngsters to become ‘businessmen’ and create wealth for the nation - deserves praise for sure, his book doesn’t. Except for being good in patches, very small ones at that, the book doesn’t carry much that one cannot learn through basic common sense and observation.
Buy this book with someone else’s money, if you don’t want to waste yours.
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