Book Review: Connect The Dots

Contributed by: Aniket Sawant (2012-2014), WeSchool

Rashmi Bansal’s latest book ‘Connect the Dots’ is a follow up to her preceding and hugely successful best-seller ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’. On the paths of her first book, which had stories of successful entrepreneurs who were graduates from the IIM’s, ‘Connect the Dots’ is a book comprising of stories of 20 entrepreneurs without a formal MBA degree, who had a vision and the audacity to find their own way to live their dreams.

The book has stories classified in 3 main sections:

·  Jugaad

Here in, we have stories of entrepreneurs like Prem Ganapathy, the founder of Dosa Plaza, Kunwer Sachdev, Su-Kam inverters and Sunitha Ramnathkar, Fem Pharma Care. These people had no formal training or experience in business. They learnt primarily through observations, experimentations and application of mind.

·  Junoon

This section comprises of stories of people who were driven by a particular passion in their mind or an idea. N Sriram, the visionary of Crossword and Sunil Bhu, Flander’s Dairy along with other inspiring entrepreneurs form this section. 

·   Zubaan

The third and the final section includes creative geniuses, who needed a platform to showcase their amazing abilities and after doing so they eventually turned out to become successful businessmen themselves. The inspiring stories of Abhijit Bansod, the creator and designer of Titan Raga, Paresh Mokashi, the film-maker who’s movie ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’ took Marathi film industry to unparalleled heights and Kalyan Varma who left a dream job at Yahoo and pursued his passion of wild life photography are stellar examples which prove that Artists can cross milestones when it comes to entrepreneurship.

Rashmi Bansal has yet again succeeded in delivering the best to her readers. Her simple yet methodical and narrative style of writing has won the hearts of many. To know about an entrepreneur is one thing and to portray about them so effectively is another and Rashmi Bansal has managed to do it perfectly. So much that her writing surely inspires many a budding businessmen to emulate the success stories about the people she has covered in the book.

To sum it up, ‘Connect the Dots’ is a beautifully composed novel and it surely stands as a must read for the new generation of India.