We must remain trustees of our wealth for society, not its owners.
Azim Premji
To decode success, one must borrow a leaf from an accomplished life. In this book, author Rajiv
Agarwal, also a management professor and family business consultant shows the strategies used by
the czar of the Indian IT industry, Azim Premji, to chart his route for success.
In the fourth book in the series, Management Lessons from the Masters, Agarwal analyzes various
moves and decisions made by Premji before he became the face of corporate philanthropy. He
shares an insight into the vision and principles of a man who started his entrepreneurial journey
with a small vegetable oil company at the young age of 21 and went on to build Wipro, one of
Indias leading IT organizations.
In this authoritative and compelling account, the author shows how Premji, the founder chairman
of Wipro, fearlessly diversified the organization into varied industries (FMCG, IT services and
infrastructure engineering). Besides, Premji also inspired entrepreneurs around the world to
generously donate large parts of their wealth. Today, his endowment of $21 billion is among the
top five endowments in the world. A must read for aspiring leaders as well as students, this book
shows how wealth can be used to impact the lives of many, not just stakeholders of a business.