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One Minute Wisdom

One Minute Wisdom

Transformative Coaching for Life, Learning and Leadership | Powerful Insights from an IIM Professor | Bite-Sized Guide to Personal Growth & Lasting Life Lessons

Debashis Chatterjee
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One-Minute Wisdom offers core insights and transformative coaching techniques that Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, one of the longest-serving directors of an IIM, has developed over three decades in leadership, education and personal development. Prof. Chatterjee’s impressive credentials include formal coaching training at INSEAD and Harvard, which have significantly shaped the methodologies shared in this work.
The book is divided into three parts—Life, Learning and Leadership—illustrated with hand-drawn sketches and slice-of-life examples.
Designed for the reader who is pressed for time, with easily digestible insights and charming essays, this is a book that will help you find purpose and also empower you to become wiser, one page at a time.

Imprint: Penguin Business

Published: Jun/2025

ISBN: 9780143476245 (Hardback)

Length : 268 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

One Minute Wisdom

Transformative Coaching for Life, Learning and Leadership | Powerful Insights from an IIM Professor | Bite-Sized Guide to Personal Growth & Lasting Life Lessons

Debashis Chatterjee

One-Minute Wisdom offers core insights and transformative coaching techniques that Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, one of the longest-serving directors of an IIM, has developed over three decades in leadership, education and personal development. Prof. Chatterjee’s impressive credentials include formal coaching training at INSEAD and Harvard, which have significantly shaped the methodologies shared in this work.
The book is divided into three parts—Life, Learning and Leadership—illustrated with hand-drawn sketches and slice-of-life examples.
Designed for the reader who is pressed for time, with easily digestible insights and charming essays, this is a book that will help you find purpose and also empower you to become wiser, one page at a time.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Debashis Chatterjee

Debashis Chatterjee is an internationally published and widely translated author of fiction and non-fiction, and the author of the national bestseller 1 Minute Wisdom. He has written poetry for over three decades, bringing the same reflective sensibility to both verse and aphorism. His academic career spans IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode, where he served as dean and later became the institute’s longest-serving director. He has also held international academic roles, including serving as a dean in Singapore and as a senior Fulbright fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

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