The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth
Sep 2017 · Hachette UK
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‘Unlike an operation to catch rabbits, trapping an elephant calls for expertise over enthusiasm. Those who hunt rabbits are rarely able to rope in elephants.’
In The Elephant Catchers, Subroto Bagchi distils his years of on-the-ground learning to explore what organizations and their people must do to climb to the next level and beyond. Through a combination of engaging anecdotes from his experiences as co-founder, and subsequently Chairman, of Mindtree Ltd, as well as practical advice on growth-related issues such as dealing with consultants or navigating strategy traps and M&As, Bagchi demonstrates a crucial point: Organizations with real ambition to get to the top need to embrace the idea of scale.
The book leads you to evaluate:
• Is your organization’s infrastructure designed to evolve and ultimately mimic the simultaneity of a living organism?
• Are you constantly nurturing and renewing your brand identity or letting it stagnate and decay?
• Does your sales force have as many hunters as it has farmers? Or is it dominated by a grizzly who just waits for the salmon to land in its mouth?
• In a fiercely competitive environment, are you really stepping ‘out of the box’ and learning from unusual sources?
Engaging, wise and thoroughly accessible, this book is a must-read for everyone in every organization seeking breakout success.
In The Elephant Catchers, Subroto Bagchi distils his years of on-the-ground learning to explore what organizations and their people must do to climb to the next level and beyond. Through a combination of engaging anecdotes from his experiences as co-founder, and subsequently Chairman, of Mindtree Ltd, as well as practical advice on growth-related issues such as dealing with consultants or navigating strategy traps and M&As, Bagchi demonstrates a crucial point: Organizations with real ambition to get to the top need to embrace the idea of scale.
The book leads you to evaluate:
• Is your organization’s infrastructure designed to evolve and ultimately mimic the simultaneity of a living organism?
• Are you constantly nurturing and renewing your brand identity or letting it stagnate and decay?
• Does your sales force have as many hunters as it has farmers? Or is it dominated by a grizzly who just waits for the salmon to land in its mouth?
• In a fiercely competitive environment, are you really stepping ‘out of the box’ and learning from unusual sources?
Engaging, wise and thoroughly accessible, this book is a must-read for everyone in every organization seeking breakout success.
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3.9
47 reviews
Abhishek Sethi
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March 22, 2015
I have great respect for this man. If it was not for his book 'the high performance entrepreneur', I could have really gone the wrong way. Coming from me this means a great deal because I have read many books in this category. Many have helped but Bagchi explains the soul of the topic and it's actually a kiss and tell of the journey some courageous souls like us want to undertake. Thank you!
Rohit kumar B
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September 15, 2013
Nice
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Anil Das
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April 23, 2021
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About the author
SUBROTO BAGCHI co-founded Mindtree Ltd,one of India’s first software services start-ups, in 1999.Author of the bestsellers The High-Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World, The Professional, MBA at 16 and The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth, Bagchi was acclaimed as India’s No. 1 bestselling business books’ author. His works have been translated
into several languages, including Hindi, Marathi,
Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Korean and Chinese. Bagchi now works full-time
as chairman of the Odisha Skill Development
Authority, where he believes his primary job
is to sell.
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