1. LEADERSHIP
ANALYSIS
OF
KISHORE BIYANI
“The Retail King”
By:-
AnurimaChakraborty(10DR003)
Bhabani Shankar Rana(10DR004)
Sudipta Dutta(10DR006)
2. INTRODUCTION
“Leader” as the name suggests the one who lead others
and have an ability to influence others.
A leader is a person who sets –
“GOAL”
“VISION”
“MOTIVATES PEOPLE”
“OBTAINS THEIR COMMITMENT”
in order to achieve the objective
3. A successful leader should possess certain traits
of Leadership Qualities, namely :
Initiative Creativity
Intelligence Desire to lead
Ambition Integrity
Self-confidence Enthusiasm
Analytical ability
4. Success in business comes from the mastery in all
aspect including skills, training and motivating the
teammates. These things become crystal clear from the
life of ‘Retail King’ of India.
King
Mr. Kishore Biyani.
Born on 9th August, 1961
In a typical joint Marwadi family
Chairman and Managing Director, Future Group Ltd.
5. Kishore Biyani, began his career selling
stonewash fabric to small shops in Mumbai.
He has launched Pantaloons,one of the
biggest listed retailers of the country, today.
Pantaloons is credited with launching many
retail formats in value and lifestyle retailing
under some of the best known retailing brand
names in the country, including Big Bazaar,
Food Bazaar, Central, e-zone, and Home
Town.
6. Since his young age, he had a rational
thinking, He would question each and
everything and do it if he found some logic
behind it .
He believed in the ideology “create and
destroy”
The man who saw the future.
7. He would observe people, judge them
and then accordingly associate or
dissociate from them.
He loves simplicity and doesn’t demand
for luxury.
A lot of thinking goes behind when he
takes any decisions.
8. A winner all the way
Kishore Biyani was awarded the Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 in the
Services Sector.
Lakshmipat Singhania - IIM Lucknow Young
Business Leader Award by Prime Minister,
Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2006.
He was also awarded the CNBC First
Generation Entrepreneur of the Year 2006.
9. Companies..
Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd.
Home Solutions Retails India Ltd.
Future Brands Ltd.
Future Media (India) Ltd. Futurebazaar India Ltd.
Weavette Texstyles Ltd.
Future Logistics Solutions Ltd.
Staples Future Office Products
Convergem Communications Private Ltd.
(India) Ltd. Pan India Food Solutions
Pantaloon Food Product Private Ltd.
(India) Ltd. Talwalkars Pantaloon Fitness
Future Knowledge Services Private Ltd.
Ltd. ConvergeM
Future Capital Holdings Ltd. Indus League Clothing
Future Generali India Etam Future Fashions Ltd.
Insurance Company Ltd. Galaxy Entertainment
Corporation Ltd.
Future Generali India Life
Insurance Company Ltd. Future Venture India Ltd.
Foot Mart retail
10. The Right Way
The entrepreneurial culture and spirit
prevails in the company, whereby the
appetite for taking risks is encouraged.
He believes in learning while doing, and
this what has helped him on his journey.
He does not believe in any rigid
organizational structure and instead of
that he prefers an organization design
approach.
11. Characteristics
1) Visionary:- He is true visionary when he started
selling readymade garments when nobody preferred
ready-to-wear shirts or trousers. Now his vision is
serving Indian society and which is unchallenged.
2) Risk taker:- He tried out different things on his
own, like readymade garments, textile production,
creating brands before he ventured in retail business
of selling garments. He took risk in doing something
new every time.
12. 3) Ambitious:- He always had ambition of
making it big in business, and that he have
done.
4) Simplicity: You’ll never catch him in a tie
and jacket. .It is the ultimate sophistication for
him.
5) Optimistic: In his own words, Kishore Biyani
was an “eternal optimist”. Today, he’s
transformed into a “realist”. “it’s my next phase in
life,” shrugs the Chairman of the Rs 8,600 crores
Future Group, which has today moved away from
retail into financial services.
13. TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE
LEADERS
Self confidence
High energy
Integrity Sensitivity
Intelligence Flexibility
14. Kishore Biyani, replaced conventional wisdom
with “guts and instincts” to create Future Group,
a $1 billion company
Known for his insights into Indian consumer
behavior, Biyani also represents an enigma to
the country’s emerging retail players, both
domestic and foreign.
15. On leadership..
Mr. Biyani says he could not find any particular
meaning of leadership.. but according to him
There are two types of Leadership:-
• The first is all about thought leadership, which
is original thought, believing in it and making
things happen based on those thoughts.
• The second type is skills leadership, which
refers to doing things consistently and in your
own style.
16. A Interview of Mr. Biyani
Q. Who according to you is an entrepreneur?
Ans. A person who is able to work even when he
cannot measure the cause and effect.
Q. What is your favorite business mantra?
Ans. Go with the flow.
Q. Your contribution to society as an
entrepreneur...
Ans. Making good human beings out of people who
we work with and improving their lives.
17. Suggestions from the king.
Q. Biyani’s advice to startups
Ans. Go with your belief and dreams.
Keep on pursuing it
You must realize whether you have the ability to
think beyond
Everyone cannot be an entrepreneur
You need to know if you are comfortable with getting
into uncharted territory
Biyani:- Most people are trained to be
preservers. It is great to be a preserver. But
for us, whoever has to create has to destroy.
Without destroying, you cannot create
anything new.
