Sonu Bhasin is one of the early women professionals in the corporate world. She has led various businesses in senior leadership positions during her career including when she was a part of the TAS (Tata Administrative Service) ING Barings Axis Bank Yes Bank and Tata Capital Limited. Bhasin is an independent director on boards of well-known and reputed domestic and multinational companies. As part of her work now she focuses on family businesses and is the founder of Families and Business (FAB). She is a family business historian a business author and the editor-in-chief of Families & Business magazine. She has been named one of the Global 100 Most Influential Individuals for family enterprises in 2020. Sonu has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in mathematics from St. Stephen's College Delhi University and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies Delhi University.
<p>You are a very capable young man Shri Ram. So what if your earlier ventures were not successful? Look at me' said Boota Singh pointing at himself. 'You think this is my first business? No not at all' he continued wagging his finger at Shri Ram. 'I too have tasted failure. But it made me even more determined to succeed. And look at me now!'</p><p>The year was 1909 and Boota Singh a successful contractor found out that a young man employed by him was the son of DCM's secretary Madan Mohan. He was surprised that the talented and hard-working Shri Ram was a munshi at his firm instead of working at DCM. He wrote multiple letters to Madan Mohan extolling Shri Ram's virtues. Giving in to Boota Singh's gentle admonishments Shri Ram was finally called to DCM and hired in the accounts department. This is the story of a man who saw tomorrow. Joining DCM at the age of twenty-five Lala Shri Ram went on to not only create a textile giant but a conglomerate that gave wings to an aspiring nation-venturing into sewing machines sugar hydrogenated oil and chemicals and becoming a market leader in a short span. Shri Ram established new benchmarks in labour welfare education and business innovation that were hitherto unheard of in the Indian business space. This book celebrates the man his vision and the entrepreneur's zeal that made it all possible. Start-ups today will find it inspiring and a useful guide as they go about building the businesses of their dreams.</p>
