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Books & Authors Quiz: Books by Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

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This Books & Authors quiz on Books by Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.

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10 questions with answers and explanations

Q1.Books & AuthorsEasy

The book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century was written by which business leader?

  1. A.N. R. Narayana Murthy
  2. B.Nandan Nilekani
  3. C.Azim Premji
  4. D.Ratan Tata
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Correct answer: B. Nandan Nilekani

Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys and the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, published Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century in 2008; it argues that India's young population, its cities and its technology can be turned from problems into assets.

Q2.Books & AuthorsMedium

The autobiography I Too Had a Dream, which tells the story of the Amul milk co-operative, was written by:

  1. A.Verghese Kurien
  2. B.Tribhuvandas Patel
  3. C.Amrita Patel
  4. D.H. M. Dalaya
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Correct answer: A. Verghese Kurien

Kurien, the mechanical engineer who built the Amul co-operative at Anand in Gujarat and headed the National Dairy Development Board, told his story in I Too Had a Dream, written with Gouri Salvi and published in 2005; his earlier volume of lectures is An Unfinished Dream.

Q5.Books & AuthorsMedium

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, which profiles twenty-five entrepreneurs who studied at IIM Ahmedabad, was written by:

  1. A.Rashmi Bansal
  2. B.Chetan Bhagat
  3. C.Shiv Khera
  4. D.Gita Piramal
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Correct answer: A. Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish appeared in 2008 and carries twenty-five profiles of entrepreneurs who had studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, grouped by whether they were born to business, were self-made or were driven by a cause.

Q6.Books & AuthorsEasy

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead was written by:

  1. A.Indra Nooyi
  2. B.Sheryl Sandberg
  3. C.Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  4. D.Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Correct answer: B. Sheryl Sandberg

Lean In was published in 2013 by Sheryl Sandberg, then Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and argues that women hold themselves back at work in ways that can be named and corrected, from leaving before they leave to underestimating their own readiness for a role.

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