Catagory: Business & Economics

An indispensable guide for anyone aspiring to achieve unparalleled professional excellence.

In today’s interconnected world, the job market is evolving at an unprecedented pace, demanding a new set of skills to thrive in a globalised economy. From 9 to Success is a compelling guide that equips individuals with the necessary skills and competencies to stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving employment landscape.

With insights from various industries and real-life success stories, the book offers a comprehensive roadmap to identify, cultivate, and showcase the skills that are highly sought after in the global job market. From communication and emotional intelligence to mind management, it explores the essential competencies and provides a structured way of developing them in order to excel in diverse professional environments. The book also emphasises the importance of fostering a global mindset that transcends borders and industries and enhances professional effectiveness.

So whether you’re a recent graduate, a seasoned professional seeking better career opportunities, or an aspiring entrepreneur, From 9 to Success will help you unleash your potential and build a fulfilling and successful career on a global stage.

The book provides in-depth guidance on the most sought-after professional and personal skills.
—Alok Mehta, Journalist, TV broadcaster, writer, and Padma Shri awardee

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER—now in paperback!
When everyone around you is asking What’s in it for me?, Joe Polish—“the most connected person on the planet”—offers one simple question to change the conversation.

There’s no shortage of networking and entrepreneurship advice in books and on social media in today’s world—but it’s harder than ever to know what’s authentic. To make matters worse, taking the wrong advice can result in superficial connections, transactional relationships, and unsatisfying interactions with others without any real rapport. In What’s in It for Them?, entrepreneur and marketer extraordinaire Joe Polish faces the problem of personal and professional disconnection head-on, offering a heart- and mind-expanding guide on how to:

• Deepen rapport and connect with others by identifying and reducing their suffering
• Update Dale Carnegie’s insights to win the right friends and influence the right people
• Overcome others’ intimidation tactics to find true appreciation in relationships
• Build character for better results than capabilities can ever give on their own
• Protect your efforts from the “takers” of the world

And much more—all to help the givers of the world thrive in business without neglecting their relationships.

Early in life, Joe Polish’s struggles with trauma and addiction led him to a disconnected life. After getting sober in recovery, he spent years developing his genuine and generous approach to building rapport and transformed from a dead broke carpet cleaner to being dubbed “the most connected person on the planet” for his work with Genius Network, one of the world’s most impactful networking groups for high-achieving entrepreneurs. In What’s in It for Them?, he explains his one-of-a-kind approach to rapport-building he used to get there—and offers a few cautionary tales along the way.

Falsification of accounting numbers, financial shenanigans, banking deceits, reneging on quality promises, money laundering, conversion of white money into black and vice versa, tax avoidance, shell companies, Ponzi schemes, technology tricks, insurance imposters and investors falling into the potholes of lies and damn lies?Corporate frauds are getting bigger, broader and bolder.

The size and scale of business deceit is becoming murkier, messier and massive even as regulatory strictures are getting bolstered. On top of it, the coronavirus crisis brought new opportunities for the fraudsters with cybercrimes reaching unprecedented levels.

Awareness of how swindlers rip off and knowing their tricks will help unravel the hocus-pocus of the magicians of hoax. This book is an attempt to bring to fore the many lies and deceptions committed by the business world.

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.

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.

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