• The Entrepreneurial Mindset
  Insight into the ways entrepreneurs behave and why. Learn from these skilled negotiators.
  
• Entrepreneurial Behaviours, Skills and Attributes
  Explore the behaviours, attributes and skills associated with being entrepreneurial.
  
• Opportunity Recognition and the Importance of Family and Networking.
  Learn from the Asian entrepreneurs in applying these skills and using their family and community networks.
  
• Rewards of Entrepreneurship
  Understand the dynamics and richness of diversity and its rewards for entrepreneurship.
  
• Making It Happen
  The relevance of these to the future careers of many in the widest sense and to promote entrepreneurship as a career path.

For two decades, entrepreneurs have been eulogised in the popular press.  At a time when real heroes are hard to find, it is the entrepreneur, the dynamic go-getting risk taker, who has become the hero of free enterprise.  At the cutting edge of the British entrepreneurial community are the Asian businesses featured in Dr. Spinder Dhaliwal’s book Making a Fortune: Learning from the Asian Phenomenon.

The book takes in businesses from manufacturing to finance, from food to hotels, from pharmaceuticals to fashion. It includes first, second and third generation achievers.  It provides the definitive guide to ‘who’s who’ in the Asian business world.

At the end of The Producers, Mel Brooks asks ‘where did we go right?’  Spinder Dhaliwal asked herself the same question at the start of this book.  If the results of these entrepreneurs were achieved in decades full of challenge and controversy, the past few years have been no different: sluggish economic growth, stock market uncertainty and question marks about the housing market provide the starkest of economic backdrops to this compendium of Asian success.

Through illustrations and examples of both personal and business issues, Spinder illustrates the triumphs and challenges facing these individuals, how disasters were overcome and how they fought against the odds to be outstanding role models for anyone interested in business or making money. She tells a story of grit and determination to succeed, and draws out the lessons so anyone, whether budding or existing entrepreneurs, Asian or not, can learn from these amazing individuals.

If nothing else, this speech is testament to the diversity of Asian talent in the UK.  As well as diversity there is also change.  Perhaps the era of the privately owned Asian business is coming to an end. These businesses have raised millions in new capital despite the harshest of climates and some, like Cobra Beer, continue to work towards the aim of floating on the stock market.

Spinder wrote the influential study 'Silent Contributors – Asian Female Entrepreneurs and Women in Business’ which highlighted this important, yet often neglected, issue.  Her report for Barclays Bank entitled, ‘Asian Entrepreneurs in the UK’ received global attention.

Spinder knows all about the challenges of the Asian entrepreneur from first hand experience. Her parents, who came to the UK from the Punjab in the 1960s, ran a corner shop in which Spinder balanced the demands of a busy family business with high academic achievement.

She has been a regular contributor to the Asian media and, in the past few years, has become an increasingly influential figure in more mainstream circles. She was the founder and director of the Centre for Asian Entrepreneurial Research and is a Board Member of the Institute of Small Business and Enterprise. 

Testimonials:

"Nobody understands better what makes British Asian entrepreneurs tick. Spinder provides a fascinating insight into business leaders and the inspirational stories behind their success."
Amar Singh, Evening Standard

“I have found Dr Spinder Dhaliwal talks very inspiring, informative and uplifting.  She is a very bright lady with a terrific vision for the society.”

Sir Gulam Noon, Chairman Noon Products

"Spinder is a natural presenter who tailors her presentations carefully to meet specific time constraints and audience needs. Audiences appreciate not only the ideas and information she provides, delivered in uncomplicated style, but also her enthusiasm and engagement."

Anthony Haynes, Partner, The Professional and Higher Partnership

“Spinder can talk about the most successful Asian Entrepreneurs with great authority, having followed them for a number of years”

Karim Ullah Publisher Asian Enterprise

“The key note presentation made by Dr Spinder Dhaliwal inspired the audience to engage with the issues and initiated an enthusiastic discussion. “

Ganesh Selvarajah - Head of Economic & Business Development Business Link

“Spinder has really captured what it takes to stir up an entrepreneur!!!”

Vijay Patel - CEO Waymade plc.

“Spinder has extensive first hand knowledge of how a true entrepreneur works. She can get underneath the skin of how an entrepreneur achieves success”

Satish Kanabar - Area Corporate Director - West London Team, Barclays Commercial Bank


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