Carlos slim helu Leadership

1. PURPOSE OFTHE STUDY
Challenges and Leadership
How true leaders does required Attributes like benevolence, courage and Intelligence. Some
leaders are smart and brave how to live without fear and take correct decisions.
It is not always about living on to the expectations of others, giving them exquisite postulation. It
is sometimes about how you are and what you imply and how you walk on the path enlightened
to be a Leader, an inspirer or a trailblazer.
He may not be a colourful person, he may never use memorable devices to pseud himself rather
we, are talking about a “Man of Gravity”, known for hardly cracking a smile indeed a true soul.
SUMMARY
“If you were to take a wild guess as to whom the richest person in the world is, who would you
picture is “el numerouno”? Logical thought would naturally point to Bill Gates or Warren Buffet
perhaps. Would you venture to guess that the wealthiest person alive is an astonishing neither?
This unlikely candidate isn’t from North America, Europe, or even an Asiatic Country. Would
you be shocked to find out that this man is in fact Mexican?
That’s right. His name is Carlos Slim Helu and he is the world’s first richest man from a
developing country. This Mexican born citizen is currently worth $73,000,000,000. If you got
lost counting the zeros, that’s 73 billion dollars, according to the Forbes billionaire list.”
(Forbes)
Helu’s business acumen began to develop at an early age. When he was just 11 years old, he
invested in government savings bonds and kept a detailed ledger to track all of his purchases. By
the time he was 15, he had become a part shareowner.
Helu grew up to study engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.,
graduating in 1961. However, he realized that his true calling was business and so a few years
later, he set up a stock brokerage. Working 14-hour days, Helu slowly moved into the insurance
SYNOPSIS-Carlos Slim Helu-
The Business Magnet

2. industry. He was becoming a modest success, but it was not until the 1980s that Helu would
make a real name for himself.
In 1982, Mexico found itself in the middle of a massive debt crisis. All the banks were
struggling and everyone was trying to get out of the stock market as quickly as they could.
Everyone, that is, except Helu, who decided there was no better time to pounce. He had learned
the lesson of hunting for bargains from his father, and he was not about to let this opportunity
pass him by. Helu quickly snapped up the cigarette distributor Cigatam, as well as a coffee and
gift shop at rock bottom prices. However, it was his next acquisition that would become his
greatest to date, and the one that would help Helu go down in the history books.
INTENDEDLEARNING
 What makes a Good Leader, In today’s high stakes business world, Do we still believe
great leaders are born not made.
 Cognizant of the need to cultivate a deep bench of people and to prioritize talent
development within the organization.
 Recognize the important role that talent plays in growing an organization.
 That by having a deep long strength of talent means that you could not only being have a
team that grows with the company but helps grow the organization.
 Leadership building is not only and outside In approach but it is also an inside out
approach.
Submitted to- Submitted by-
Prof. Pallavi Srivastava Tasheen Sheikh-JL13PGDM119
Nikhil Pandey-JL13FS
Udichi Awasthi-JL13FS
Vipul Sinha-JL13FS
Manisha Singh-JL13RM