Nationalist: How A.M. Naik Overcame Great Odds to Transform Lar

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Good part -Ist a good book to know about L&T and Mr Naik.Bad- The book is repetitive, you will find many points mentioned at different parts. The writer could have cut short easily.

Anil Naik is inspirational n born leader of India & L&T

I read the book and was really impressed ! Things fell in place and I got to spend 1.5 hours with the man himself on 30-Sept-2021. What a legend he is :)

Received on 23rd Nov 4 pm, Started reading from 11 pm. Writing review on 24th Nov 11 pm.In 24 hours I read up to 188 of 246 pages. I like to finish it before writing this review but the book is written in so careless manner that it is getting headache to finish it.There are two parts of the review: (1). About AM Naik and L&T. (2). About writing quality of the book Nationalist".(1) The book is more about L&T than A M Naik. But given Naik's 53 years association with L&T, it is almost impossible the present the two separately.Anyway, book (content wise) throws light on journey of L&T as well as AM Naik's life. Few things to note will be - Naik's humble early life, his hard working workshop experience at Powai, L&T's beginning, L&T's manufacturing facilities at Hazira (Surat) and Kattapalli, hostile attempt of take over of L&T by Ambani and Birla, Rise of AM Naik as CEO and MD, Rise of L&T as nation building company from 1999 onward.If you are not even remotely aware of L&T, this book will give idea the company's profile.(2) About writing quality of the book Nationalist".My honest assessment is, THE BOOK IS ALMOST UNREADABLE. There are numerous occasions where same information, words, sentences, and even paragraphs have been copy pasted only two page apart (see first para on page 175 and last para on 178). Writer has mentioned the story about "How Naik saved L&T from Ambani and Birla" about 10 times by 150 pages. The lessons from Naik's father to AM Naik exists at more than 5 times. Many colleagues telling about Naik 'Using the same set of Phrases and words in same tone is very repetitive". There are random jumps in paragraphs and at time it is very easy to lose tract of who said what. At the end, I feel like going through minutes of meeting.Mr. Merchant as writer has either rushed through the books due to publication deadlines.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:I am a Civil Engineer and, co-incidentally, Ex Employee of L&T(ECC). I can say that the author has largely wasted an opportunity of bringing an Iconic book. Naik would have many interesting anecdotes that should have found place in the book (there are only few and repeated unnecessarily). There is only brief mention of L&T ECC which constitutes about 60% of L&T's revenue (of course Naik is more related to L&T Heavy Engineering). I have marked some places in my copy of the book that needs improvement and I am planning to send to the author for improvement.