Many big companies—famous brands, once loved and revered—often disappear into oblivion mainly due to their own follies. Look at the once invincible Kodak or the seemingly unfailing Premier Padmini cars. In the unforgiving world of modern business they failed to adapt, only to perish. Many businesses fail to address and wisdom from their trying experiences. Even the infallible Nokia, BlackBerry, Woolworths and Lehman Brothers buckled. Companies such as Bethlehem Steel, Atari, Xerox, NCR, Mafatlal and Kingfisher Airlines this basic truth. Every business is tested for endurance and accomplishment but only a few extract strength once considered as the great ones to emulate, all failed to live up to their repute. Instances of business blunders and bloopers are many. They could include compromising quality to cut costs, lack of professionalism in management, botched up mergers and acquisitions, customers being taken for granted, bad leadership, family squabbles, corporate fraud, unmanageable debts and numerous others. This book will help you understand many famous, frequent and common mistakes committed by businesses over time. The lessons learnt should enable you to run your businesses with lesser hiccups and maximize stakeholder returns.
Catagory: Business & Economics
You Can Compound
Vivek Mashrani’s bestselling You Can Compound is your companion to learn, implement and refine the investing process. It opens a window to secrets, strategies and frameworks to compound money by investing in the stock market. Mashrani integrates principles of personal finance, building blocks to understand businesses, frameworks for buy-add-sell, risk management as well as powerful allocation principles. He has simplified these concepts using the TREE analogy and MACHINE framework so that investors at all levels can enjoy reading this book. It is a complete guide for any investor who wants to take compounding to the next level and achieve financial freedom.
Who Cheats and How
Why do corporates, that are seemingly doing well, cheat? How are these scams and frauds committed? Why do corporates risk their reputation which they have built over the years? This book analyses these and other hitherto unexplored areas of the corporate world. It is a definitive account of the frauds and scams that pop up in the corporate world. A result of the author’s rigorous research spanning more than six years, it presents a deep and comprehensive perspective on such incidents i
Middle of Diamond India (Hindi)/Amrit Kaal Ka Bharat/अमृत काल का भारत
अमृत काल का भारत एक क्रांतिकारी विचार प्रस्तुत करती है कि कैसे भारत अपने छोटे-छोटे नगरों और कस्बों में रहने वाले प्रतिभाशाली लोगों के विशाल वर्ग पर ध्यान देकर अपनी तरक्की का रास्ता खोल सकता है, जो लंबे समय से उपेक्षित रहे हैं।
यह किताब देश के उस हिस्से की छुपी हुई कहानियों को सामने लाती है जिन्हें उनकी भौगिलिक स्थिति और भाषा की वजह से अब तक नजरअंदाज किया गया है।
Think Better Thoughts
Are you struggling with negative thoughts? Do you hold on to too many limiting beliefs? Do you feel like you’re capable of more?
If so, it’s time for you to replace disempowering beliefs with more empowering ones and improve your life in the process.
Author and coach Thibaut Meurisse wants you to think better, more empowering thoughts. In his latest book, you’ll learn about 100 negative assumptions that, often unconsciously, prevent you from designing a more fulfilling life.
He addresses questions such as why you often feel like you’re not good enough (and what to do about it); how your fear of missing out is working against you; why being hard on yourself doesn’t work (and what you should do instead), and much more.
Think Better Thoughts is a must-read guide to reprogramme your mind, have more empowering thoughts and make lasting changes in your life.
The One Goal
What if that dream that you hold in your mind was actually possible?
As Napoleon Hill wrote, a goal is a dream with a deadline, but having a deadline is merely the beginning.
How do you ensure that you actually achieve your goal? After all, 92 per cent of people who set New Year’s resolutions don’t stick to them.
In this book, you’ll learn the exact blueprint to achieving all the goals and dreams you’re most excited about. Thibaut shares how to set goals fully aligned with your personal values to build lasting motivation and unstoppable enthusiasm. You will learn how to develop an unbeatable mindset and achieve insanely demanding goals. The book introduces you to the bullet-proof timeframe and the mastery mindset and its five commandments so that you can achieve any future goal in any area of your life. The psychology of expertise will shorten your learning curve and help you position yourself as an expert faster than you thought possible.
If you ever failed to achieve your goals in the past, The One Goal will provide you with the roadmap you need to achieve any goal for the rest of your life.
Success Is Inevitable
What if you could make your success inevitable?
Imagine if, by mastering specific laws of success, you could achieve any goal you’ve ever set?
How would that make you feel?
What would you start doing differently?
Success Is Inevitable is your definitive master plan for success. By reading it, you’ll discover the seventeen laws that will skyrocket your success. With pragmatic exercises and personal examples, you’ll explore specific techniques that will enable you to reach your full potential and achieve your biggest goals.
In this book, you will discover how to increase your odds of success by harnessing the four fundamental powers, how to build unshakeable self-confidence using the self-empowerment triangle, and how to use the bullet-proof timeframe to strengthen your resilience, among others.
Success Is Inevitable is your must-read guide for achieving the success you desire. If you like easy-to-understand strategies, practical exercises and no-nonsense teachers, then you’ll love Thibaut Meurisse’s books.
Launch (Updated and Expanded Edition)
From the creator of Product Launch Formula, an expanded edition of the #1 New York Times best-selling guide that’s helped countless entrepreneurs make millions—now in paperback.
“What Jeff Walker teaches in LAUNCH is vital for modern marketing success. You don’t need more tactics or tools; you need smart strategy, and that’s exactly what this book delivers.”
— Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Everything Is Figureoutable
The revised and updated edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Launch will build your business—fast. Whether you’ve already got an online business or you’re itching to start one, this is a recipe for getting more traction and a fast start.
Think about it: What if you could launch like Apple or the big Hollywood studios? What if your prospects eagerly counted down the days until they could buy your product? And you could do it no matter how humble your business or budget?
Since 1996, Jeff Walker has been creating hugely successful online launches. After bootstrapping his first Internet business from his basement, he quickly developed a process for launching new products and businesses with unprecedented success. And once he started teaching his formula to other entrepreneurs, the results were simply breathtaking. Tiny, home-based businesses started doing launches that brought in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars. Whether you have an existing business or you’re starting from scratch, this is how you start fast.
This formula is how you engineer massive success. Now the question is this: Do you want to start slow, and fade away from there? Or are you ready for a launch that will change the future of your business and your life?
Make Epic Money (Marathi)/मेक एपिक मनी
‘शाळा-महाविद्यालयांमध्ये पैशांविषयी चर्चा का केली जात नाही? आई-वडील मुलांना पैशांविषयी काहीच का शिकवत नाहीत? पैशांविषयी जे काही समजतं ते अनेक ठिकाणी ठेचकाळत, धक्के खातच का शिकावं लागतं? या सगळ्या गोष्टी बदलल्याच पाहिजेत. ‘मेक एपिक मनी’ या माझ्या पुस्तकातून तुम्हाला या सगळ्या गोष्टी समजतील. मी स्वतः ज्या गोष्टी खूप उशिरा अतिशय मुश्किलीनं शिकलो, त्या सगळ्या गोष्टी या पुस्तकातून लाखो-कोट्यवधी वाचकांना शिकवण्याची माझी इच्छा आहे. ’ – अंकुर वारिकू
मेक एपिक मनी’ मधून देण्यात आलेला संदेश अतिशय स्पष्ट आहे. तुमची पार्श्वभूमी, तुमच्याकडचं अर्धवट ज्ञान, मर्यादित अनुभव, तुमच्याकडे असलेला तज्ज्ञतेचा अभाव – यांपैकी कोणतीही गोष्ट तुम्हाला पैसा कमावण्यापासून रोखू शकत नाही. तुम्हाला हवे तसे जगण्यापासून तुम्हाला कोणीही रोखू शकत नाही. मग तुम्हाला नेमकं कोण रोखत आहे? फक्त तुमच्या मनात खोलवर रुजलेले तुमचे विचार!
तुमचे विचारच तुम्हाला आर्थिकदृष्ट्या बरबाद करू शकतात किंवा तुमचं जीवन समृद्ध करू शकतात. विचार बदला, सारं काही बदलून जाईल.
या पुस्तकातून तुमच्या विचारांना आव्हान देण्याचा, त्यांना चिथावणी व प्रेरणा देण्याचा आणि नंतर त्यांना बदलण्याचा प्रयत्न करण्यात आला आहे.
Breaking the Mould (Marathi)/Chaukat Modoon Taktaanaचौकट मोडून टाकताना
भारताच्या प्रगतीची वाटचाल कोणत्या दिशेने होत आहे? इंग्लंडला मागे टाकून भारताची अर्थव्यवस्था जगातील पाचव्या क्रमांकावर जाऊन पोचली आहे याचा अर्थ भारताची प्रगती होत आहे असा होतो का? का लक्षावधी बेरोजगारांना रोजगार पुरवण्यास आलेल्या अपयशामुळे अर्थव्यवस्थेची पीछेहाट होत आहे? उज्वल भवितव्यासाठी आपण काय केलं पाहिजे?
भारत आज एका चौरस्त्यावर येऊन पोचला आहे. भारताच्या आर्थिक वाढीचा दर कित्येक मोठ्या देशांच्या तुलनेत जास्त असला तरी आपल्या बेरोजगार तरूणांना नोकऱ्या देण्यासाठी तो खूपच कमी आहे. कमी कौशल्याच्या वस्तूनिर्माण क्षेत्रातील तीव्र स्पर्धा, आपल्याच देशात वस्तूनिर्मिती करण्याकडे, संरक्षणवादाकडे झुकत चाललेला जागतिक कल, आणि वाढते स्वयंचलितीकरण यामुळे परिस्थिती अधिक गंभीर झालेली आहे. समाजात फूट पाडणाऱ्या बहुसंख्यांकांच्या तुष्टीकरणातून काहीच साधले जाणार नाही. आजवर आर्थिक विकासाची वाटचाल कृषी क्षेत्राकडून कमी कौशल्याचे वस्तूनिर्माण, त्यानंतर उच्चकौशल्याधारित वस्तूनिर्माण आणि सेवा क्षेत्र अशी होत आलेली आहे. विकासाच्या राजमार्गावरील मधल्या पायरीवरून उडी मारून आपण केल्हाच पुढे आलो आहोत. असं असताना परत मधली पायरी गाठण्यासाठी उलट फिरण्याऐवजी आपण आपला स्वतःचा भारतीय मार्ग शोधून काढला पाहिजे. मानवी भांडवलात गुंतवणूक करून, सेवा आणि वस्तूनिर्माण क्षेत्रातील उच्च कौशल्याधारित संधींचा विस्तार करून, नवी उत्पादने आणि नव्या कल्पनांना पोषक वातावरणात आर्थिक विकासाचा वेग कसा वाढवता येईल ते या पुस्तकात लेखकद्वयांनी समजावून सांगितलं आहे. भारताच्या लोकशाही परंपरांनां लोकशाही संस्थांचे सबलीकरण आणि विकेंद्रीकरणाचा विस्तार यासारख्या सुशासनातील सुधारणांची जोड मिळाल्यास विकासाच्या मार्गावरील वाटचाल सोपी होईल. ज्या ठिकाणी भारताला यश मिळाले आहे त्याचे लेखकद्वयाने खुल्या मनाने कौतूक केलं आहे तसेच त्यांनी त्यातील दोषही परखडपणे दाखवले आहेत. त्यांनी भूतकाळाला जखढून ठेवणाऱ्या शृंखला तोडून येणाऱ्या भावी काळातील शक्यतांकडे खुल्या दिलाने पाहण्याचे आवाहन केलं आहे. जागोजागी दिलेल्या समर्पक उदाहरणांनी आणि बिनतोड युक्तिवादांनी शेवटच्या पानापर्यंत वाचनीय झालेले, भारताच्या भविष्याविषयी आस्था असलेल्या सर्वांनी वाचलेच पाहिजे असे पुस्तक.