This book is superbly timed. Is there anyone, anywhere, not worried about growth now? Robert Bloom is direct, simple and focused on results, combining his understanding of the power of classic ideas in marketing with experience which he explains lucidly in the context of the contemporary marketplace. Bloom’s paradigm is the celebration of the ‘uncommon offering’ at multiple customer touch...

Robert Hsu was born in China and raised in Southern California. He was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, became a millionaire at 29, and ‘retired’ at 30. He is now the president of a private-client money management firm called Absolute Return Capital Advisors, the publisher of two newsletters, China Strategy and Asia Edge. He claims to have a network of China-based analysts who keep him...

Reading the two stories of Nutan Lugani, who is counselling for ICICI Bank through Disha, transposed me to nearly a quarter century ago. The head of this very organisation – ICICI, then a development bank and providing finance only to industry – told me that 90% of top management time had to be spent on ‘credit counselling’. The legendary HT Parekh (then chairman of ICICI and later the...