INFLUENCE IS AN ART! Millions of people have improved their leadership style and “people skills” after reading Ken Blanchard’s best-selling book The One-Minute Manager.Now, Blanchard helps us discover the art of influence through the greatest life and leadership lessons he’s learned in his rich career as an educator and business leader. The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard’s insight and wisdom on choosing values, aiming for excellence, maintaining integrity,…
Shri Vasant Sathe, senior politician, speaks… “It was brilliant. We need geniuses like Arindam to take this country out of the current state of confusion.” Executive Director, BHEL, Mr. R.C. Jain, speaks… “An excellent opportunity to share ideas… very useful inputs… a very candid and simple way of indianising management science.” Chetan Sharma, NDTV, speaks… “A great concept which would become even greater were it to translate into a…
Parakram Singh Jadeja did it in Rajkot Deepak. Dadhoti did it in Belgaum. Vibhor Agrawal did it in Meerut. Take Me Home is the story of 20 entrepreneurs who have built remarkable enterprises, while remaining true to their roots. From small towns across India, they run giant global companies with locally trained talent. The ability to run a professional business is no longer limited by location. What you need…
America’s most sought after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder.
The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They’re intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make…
CONNECT THE DOTS is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without an MBA, who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves. To lead interesting, passionate, meaningful lives. Their stories say one thing loud and clear. You don’t need a fancy degree or a rich daddy to dream big and make it happen. It’s all in your head, your heart, your hands.
Tongue in cheek, the doctor draws from his quarter century of experience, a cocktail of thoughts and emotions aimed at the moments of truth in a doctor’s life. A remarkably candid book, it looks at the aspirations that lead individuals to enter this field, the medical education, the profession of medicine in recent years, the attitudes of patients towards treatment and the doctors, and, importantly, the increasing role of…
In his new book, Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, “why be good”, and discovers that the epic’s world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist age of moral certainty.The Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma – in essence, doing…
“We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre…
Arun’s brilliance and insight come to the fore when he takes his specific personal situation and turns it into a discussion on the larger questions that humankind has been grappling with over the ages’ – N.R. Narayana Murthy ‘It is for this book that Arun will be remembered the most. It moved me to tears …’ -Dr R.A. Mashelkar A child is in agony. Is it because God does…
“From the Orange Prize-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
In ‘A Private Experience’, a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away.
In ‘Tomorrow Is…
Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the subcontinent’s most respected writers and diplomats, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its dazzling diversity of languages, customs, and cultures remains more than 60 years after its founding the world’s largest democracy. He describes the vast changes that have transformed this once sleeping giant into a world leader in science and technology,…
We all have a story to tell. We often judge our own stories as being good or bad, right or wrong. The truth is, each and every one of them not only holds meaning for us but for those around us as well. Chicken Soup for The Teenage Soul IV is filled with such stories: what it really means to be a teenager in today’s world.