Harper The Nationalist How am Naik Transformed  L&T into a Global Powerhouse by Minhaz Merchant

It will not be an exaggeration to say that multinational conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is behind every critical national endeavour - India's first nuclear submarine; its strategic weapon and missile systems; the space exploration programme; and infrastructure like metro systems and nuclear power plants. And one man has been instrumental in taking L&T to these heights: its chairman, A.M. Naik. Naik joined L&T as a junior engineer in 1965 and rapidly rose through the ranks to become its chairman in 2003. As he steps down in 2017 after more than fifty years at the firm, The Nationalist is his candid and clear-headed assessment of his own life as well as L&T and the Indian economy. It tells the story of how Naik, the son of a school principal in rural Gujarat, battled the odds to rise to the highest echelons of the corporate world and reveals what it takes to succeed in the demanding world of global business and industry.

About the Author

Minhaz  Merchant is an author, editor, columnist and publisher. He is the chairman and group editor-in-chief of Merchant Media Ltd and founding editor of Innovate, a magazine for US-based CEOs. He heads Global Intelligence Review - the group's think tank, and is the author of Rajiv Gandhi: The End of a Dream and Aditya Vikram Birla: A Biography