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URS-AsiaOne has been steadily showcasing inspiring stories of some leaders who had established global business empires. Some prodigious leaders overcame every difficulty and completely transformed the global dais with their ground-breaking ideas, brilliant operations, and game-changing products and services. Their concerted efforts and incredible focus have helped entire nations write inspiring sagas of business and economic growth. These nonpareil leaders have consistently altered established norms and revolutionized their businesses with their groundbreaking ideas and led their companies to get recognized at many global platforms with various acclaimed brand awards and leader awards such as entrepreneur of the year award.

We present a few of the stimulating stories of the success of such coveted greatest leaders.

Asheet Taneja
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Asheet Taneja

COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT RANGE Asheet’s complete bouquet of passive fire protection offers wooden fire doors, steel fire doors, glazed fire doors, bullet and blast proof doors, lead line doors, hi-technology doors for hospitals, fire curtains and many more products to ensure safety. THE STEPPING STONE The company was established by Asheet’s father after he retired from the defense forces in 1982. Eighteen years down the line, Asheet lost his father and entered the business in 2000 when he was only 16. At that point, there was no professional guidance to help him move forward with th

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Majid Al Futtaim
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Majid Al Futtaim

His is an extraordinary story of triumph, where he spearheaded the development of leisure and retailing arena of United Arab Emirates, and currently possesses and controls 17 shopping malls, 11 hotels and 3 mixed-use communities across 13 international markets. His company’s legal name is the same as his own – Majid Al Futtaim – and has developed into one of the most successful and esteemed businesses of United Arab Emirates with the accomplishment of a BBB rating (highest credit rating among privately held corporate houses in the Middle East). He almost has a monopoly in the shopping m

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M A Yusuff Ali
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M A Yusuff Ali

MAN OF INNOVATIVE IDEAS Born on 15 November, 1955 in the Thrissur district, young Yusuff completed his schooling from Natika. He later went to Gujarat to acquire diploma in the field of Business Management and Administration. From a very early age he fancied becoming a businessman. In the year 1973, an 18 year old Yusuff left his homeland to join his uncle in Abu Dhabi who ran a manufacturing company there. Yusuff was a quick learner. Not only he clearly understood the business process but also started coming up with innovative ideas to boost their enterprise presence. Yusuff developed the w

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Ashish kumar Chauhan
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Ashish kumar Chauhan

An Illustrious Career With first break as an officer by the IDBI Bank in 1991 to a cushy job of working as President and Chief Information Officer at the Reliance Industries Group from 2000 to 2009, Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan has left no stone unturned and has achieved many milestones of success. Regarded as the father of modern financial derivatives in India, he is one of the notable and leading experts in the fields of IT and telecommunications, finance, markets, micro-structuring, cricket, retail, and oil and gas refining to name a few. An integral part of many organisations, he is serving as

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An incredible success journey
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An incredible success journey

Narendra Damodardas Modi became the 14th and the current Prime Minister of India, after an impressive stint as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) BY ANAM KUMAR The story of Narendra Modi’s rise to become the most important person in India is really stupendous, as even after being born in a poor family of Gujarat, his resolve to do something great for himself and his country led him to move up in his political career, till he became the Prime Minister of the country. ST

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Jack Ma
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Jack Ma

Everyone has a passion to attain greater height and traverse the life with a successful career. To achieve such a desire, many strive hard and always move on with an undying spirit of determination. One such perseverant personality is Jack Ma. A not-so-very-talented child, he has become the most influential personalities of China who made a significant impact on the Internet industry of the country. The Founder and Chairman of E-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Mr. Ma Yun, or as he is professionally called, Jack Ma, was born and brought up poor in communist China. As a child, he always wanted t

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Mr. Vineet Jain
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Mr. Vineet Jain

Vineet Jain believes that excellence is a journey, not a destination – and that’s what drives him to do better, and to motivate his colleagues to keep raising the bar. For him work is pleasure, as it doesn’t seem like work! He doesn’t enjoy holidays beyond a week-10 days, and finds the urge to get back to work because it is creative, dynamic and exciting. He considers the creative process very exciting, and has taken several innovative initiatives – over the years, whose impact at the national and international levels is unfathomable – such as setting up Times FM in the 1980s almos

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Dr. Adnan Chilwan
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Dr. Adnan Chilwan

By ensuring focus and progressiveness, whilst preventing himself from being distracted by actions of others, he has been taking charge, making his own rules, and writing his own script for the future Thus, driven by his own ambitions, and not by others’, Dr. Chilwan believes in building capacity for future – financial, people, systems and technology – pre-emptively and continuously, and considers them key ingredients in the recipe for his success. Though success may be a subjective term, and may be a matter of opinion, Dr. Chilwan feels that it is also definitely personal. Whilst many m

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Anil Agarwal
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Anil Agarwal

The story of Anil Agarwal, the Founder and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc., is not only of humble origins, but also of a person who has a knack for taking risks, doing experiments and creating a conglomerate that is spread across continents. Having grown up in bylanes of a small Indian town – Patna, he has created Vedanta Group – an Indian diversified natural resources multinational (as he prefers to call it) – from scratch and is present across commodities – zinc, oil and gas, iron ore, copper, aluminium, silver, lead, power, gold. Belonging to the Marwari community of Rajasthan â

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Shrinivas Chebbi
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Shrinivas Chebbi

With a professional graph spanning more than 25 years, Shrinivas has been central to robust businesses across industries and countries. Reimagining possibilities and recalibrating new horizons, he has led diverse teams in different functions. Be it process automation in the late 90s of India or advanced process controls in the Gulf in 2000s, he has headed projects that would set international megatrends later. He points out, “there have been some really tough decisions to navigate and moments of truth. It is not always a success. Many a time, the urge to implement learnings of your failure

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