Catalyst

Highly readable, crisply writte inspirational reading for any new indian entrepreneur’—frontline difficult though setting up a business is, becoming a high performance entrepreneur is harder still. And yet, of the many thousands who try, there are those who go on to become successful; some even graduate to setting up companies that hold their own against the toughest competition, becoming icons of achievement. In the high performance entrepreneur, subroto bagchi, co founder and chief operating officer of mindtree consulting, draws upon his own highly successful experience to offer guidance from the idea stage to the ipo level. This includes how to decide when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting a team, defining the values and objectives of the company and writing the business plan to choosing the right investors, managing adversity and building the brand. Additionally, in an especially illuminating chapter, bagchi recounts the systems and values which have made indian i

Subroto Bagchi co-founded Mindtree Ltd, one of India's first software service start-ups, in 1999. He is the author of bestsellers such as The High Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World, The Professional, MBA at 16 and The Professional Companion. His works have been translated into several languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Korean and Chinese.