About the author: A shopping mall enthusiast, very passionate about developing, managing, and operating shopping malls, especially in the MENA Region, has the distinction of managing super regional shopping malls and mixed use development spanning over 1 million square metres of GLA area. Highly regarded and winner of Best Shopping Mall in Abu Dhabi for four years in a row, winner of Gold, Silver Middle East Council of Shopping Centres defied all odds by achieving impossible goals through sheer hard work, perseverance, and commitment in various categories, particularly NOI and Cause Related Marketing. A B.Tech in engineering combined with a master’s degree in police administration embarked on a journey of more than 20 years of satisfying and fulfilling life experience.
Summary of the book: This book offers insight to those who are passionate about shopping malls, who revere the very existence of a community well-being, and who view shopping centres as a second home. It’s a must-read to understand the operations and functional dynamics of what happens behind the scenes of the glitz and glamour it provides! Shopping mall management is the hallmark and is considered to be pivotal for the success of the establishment. Professionally, mall management plays a very important and vital function between the ownership, tenants, and shoppers for enhancing the value proposition of the property par excellence. This book provides a new perspective on the attributes of mall management leasing, marketing, FM operations, pre-construction stages, mall inspections pre-opening to post-opening, accounting, budgets, procurement, audit, and more importantly mall management manuals. I am confident that this book will most critically aid and shape the careers of the nascent/young mall management executives in their quest to gain more understanding about the shopping mall sector, which has prodigiously expanded to become a trillion-dollar industry.
1. Can you tell us a little about your book?
It’s about shopping mall management and its attributes, viz., managing, developing, and operating shopping malls.
2. Is there a specific event that inspired this story or was this an out-of-the-blue idea?
Managing shopping malls over a long period of time in the Middle East, I felt that I should bring forward my experiences, failures, and successes, which will give an insight to the young executives who choose the shopping mall industry as their careers. This book is a reflection of what goes on behind the curtains of shopping malls and educates the masses about the complexities of managing large-scale operations to be successful.
3. What got you writing in the first place?
My story, my real-time experiences, some good, some bad.
4. Which part of your story connects the most with you? Why?
In the initial part of the book, when you lose everything and then start all over again, it’s tough there.
5. What makes your book the one to read?
The shopping mall industry is scaling into new dimensions and horizons, and the success of any shopping mall is to synchronize its parameters in one symphony to achieve excellence and recognition. This book caters to the shopping mall industry, investors, executives, and developers who are in the industry or are thinking about taking the plunge.
6. What was the best advice you got while writing?
Never give up on your dreams.
7. Who’s your all-time favorite author? Which book of his/hers made you fall in love with them?
1) FOUNTAINHEAD — AYN RAND ;
2) JOHN GRRISHAM , am a voracious reader !
8. What is your evergreen tip to the writers out there?
There is a writer deep down within us , its just finding a right chord in bringing up! and now you have Write Order they can get the best from you .
9. What was your hardest scene to write?
To write and sum up words initially.
10. Do you have another plot brewing?
Yes sir, I definitely have and I’m already on it.
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/9357761322?ref=myi_title_dp
