Packed with these learnings are riveting corporate stories of how Hindustan Unilever made aggressive bids to buy Mariwala’s business, but had to sell it to the same company in a few years, or how Page Industries found an exciting way to stop unionization at their manufacturing units.

Mukherjea tells you why focusing on the core business could save a company’s life or how giving control to top management could be a boon. Saurabh Mukherjea, bestselling author of Gurus of Chaos, delivers an outstanding book with lessons to learn from these seven businesses. How did these companies do it? Why couldn’t this be reciprocated by other companies? What are they doing differently? In simple words, these companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth while maintaining profitability year-on-year for the last decade. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of seven, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 per cent revenue growth over the last ten years and 15 per cent return on capital employed. They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. What is common to Asian Paints, HDFC Bank, Marico, Axis Bank and Berger Paints?

What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?