LEADERSHIP

ANALYSIS
OF
KISHORE BIYANI
“The Retail King”

By:-
AnurimaChakraborty(10DR003)
Bhabani Shankar Rana(10DR004)
Sudipta Dutta(10DR006)
 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
 A successful leader should possess certain traits
of Leadership Qualities, namely :

 Initiative Creativity
 Intelligence Desire to lead
 Ambition Integrity

 Self-confidence Enthusiasm
 Analytical ability
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’
King of India.

Mr. Kishore Biyani.

 Born on 9th August, 1961

 In a typical joint Marwadi family
 Chairman and Managing Director, Future Group Ltd.
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.
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.
 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.
 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.
 Companies..
Future Media (India) Ltd.
Future Logistics Solutions Ltd.
Convergem Communications
(India) Ltd.
Pantaloon Food Product
(India) Ltd.
Future Knowledge Services
Ltd.
Future Capital Holdings Ltd.
Future Generali India
Insurance Company Ltd.
Future Generali India Life
Insurance Company Ltd.
Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd.
Home Solutions Retails India Ltd.
Future Brands Ltd.
Futurebazaar India Ltd.
Weavette Texstyles Ltd.
Staples Future Office Products
Private Ltd.
Pan India Food Solutions Private
Ltd.
Talwalkars Pantaloon Fitness
Private Ltd.
ConvergeM
Indus League Clothing
Etam Future Fashions Ltd.
Galaxy Entertainment Corporation
Ltd.
Future Venture India Ltd.
Foot Mart retail
 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.
 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.
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.
 TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE
LEADERS

High energy Self confidence

Integrity Sensitivity

Intelligence Flexibility
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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
Th a nk
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