TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Aravind Family Tree

Meet the Family

Introduction: The Power and Paradox of Aravind

Prologue: Climbing Everest

Part One: The 5-Minute, $15 Cure: On Efficiency and Compassion

Chapert 1: Of Burgers and Blindness

Chapter 2: When Free Is Not Enough

Chapter 3: This Case Won't Fly

Part Two: Do the Work and Money Will Follow: On Sustainability and Selflessness

Chapter 4: An Eye Doctor by Sheer Accident

Chapter 5: Get Less, Do More

Chapter 6: The Power of Creative Constraints

Chapter 7: You Don't Find People, You Build Them

Chapter 8: The Question of the Greedy Doctor

Part Three: A Vast Surrender: On Innovation and Inner Transformation

Chapter 9: Humankind Is a Work in Progress

Chapter 10: Dr. V's Practice of Perfect Vision

Chapter 11: Manufacturing a Revolution

Chapter 12: Maximize Service, Not Profit

Chapter 13: The Flip Side of a Visionary

Part Four: Training Your Competition on Replication and Self-Awareness

Chapter 14: If We Can Do It, So Can You

Chapter 15: Aravind is Like Kilimanjaro

Chapter 16: Business, Politics, and Prahalad's Dare

Chapter 17: Aravind in America

Part Five: How Do You Retire a Saint: On Change and Integrity

Chapter 18: Same Same but Different

Chapter 19: All Will Pass from the Earth

Chapter 20: The Bottom Is Moving Up

Chapter 21: A Place to Practice Truth

Epilogue: Death's Question

Resources

Notes

Acknowledgments

Name Index

About the Authors

Connecting to Aravind's Work