YUNOVA Stories
People who built their skillsजिन लोगों ने अपने skill खुद बनाए
True stories of people who built a skill step by step, written from public sources, and where you can start on the same skill for free.ऐसे लोगों की सच्ची कहानियाँ जिन्होंने कदम-दर-कदम एक skill सीखा, public sources से लिखी हुई, और वह जगह जहाँ आप वही skill free में शुरू कर सकते हैं।
Business & ProductivityE. Sreedharan: the Metro Man who finished on time
E. Sreedharan · Civil engineer known as India's Metro ManIn India, big public projects are often expected to run late and over budget. E. Sreedharan became famous for doing the opposite. From a cyclone-wrecked bridge in Tamil Nadu to the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro, he delivered difficult projects on schedule and kept his teams disciplined and honest. His story is one of the clearest examples in India of what good project management looks like in practice.Read story →
Business & ProductivityVerghese Kurien: the engineer who built India's milk supply chain
Verghese Kurien · Father of the White Revolution and first chairman of NDDBA glass of milk in a big Indian city often begins with a farmer in a village, and getting it from one to the other, fresh and at a fair price, is a supply chain problem. Verghese Kurien spent his life solving it. Sent to the small town of Anand on a government bond, he stayed for decades, helped build Amul and led Operation Flood, which linked village cooperatives to towns and cities across India.Read story →
Business & ProductivityDan Bricklin: the MBA student who invented the spreadsheet
Dan Bricklin · Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheetEvery time you change one cell in Excel and watch the totals update, you are using an idea Dan Bricklin had as a business school student in 1978. With his friend Bob Frankston he turned a daydream about a calculator into VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, and gave people a reason to buy a personal computer. His story shows how a tool for boring rework can change the world.Read story →
Business & ProductivityDhirubhai Ambani: from a petrol station job to Reliance
Dhirubhai Ambani · Founder of Reliance IndustriesDhirubhai Ambani was the son of a village school teacher in Gujarat. He started work as a petrol station attendant abroad, came back to Mumbai with small savings, and opened a trading office in a single small room. By the time he died in 2002, the business he founded, Reliance, had become one of India's largest companies.Read story →