How Anil Naik Built&t's Remarkable Growth Trajectory

How is a ‘Shaper’ different from a manager and a businesseader? A Shaper operates with aong-term vision and successfully changes the trajectory of the company to make it future ready, in the way Anil Naik shaped the future ofarsen & Toubro (L&T). The narrative traces the spectacular five-decade-long journey of Anil Naik as a junior engineer from the shop floor to the position of MD, CEO and chairman. The story traverses through the parallelife journeys of&T and Naik and witnesses their trials and tribulations. Naik built the growth trajectory of&T on the foundation of ‘value creation’ and transformed the company into an agile and competitive business conglomerate. Based on a series of personal interviews with Naik and his team, the book explores Naik’s mindset and actions that transformed&T into aeading Indian MNC with a global footprint in fields as diverse as defence, nuclear power and aerospace to financial services, IT and engineering services. How Anil Naik Built&T’s Remarkable Growth Trajectory is the second book in the series, Shapers of Business Institutions. The book reveals ‘The Naik Way’—new theories ofeadership and management as a catalyst to growth.