Innovation requires more than a eureka moment. The vast majority of new product ideas never make it to market. Typically, this is because of the failure to address a real problem that a customer has experienced and is willing to pay to have solved. What do people and businesses need to know about the realities of innovating in order to develop products successfully?
Lorraine Marchand—a seasoned practitioner who has guided Fortune 500 companies and start-ups on developing and launching new ideas—lays out a step-by-step framework for spurring success. She shares her eight laws of innovation, a formula for driving significant and lasting transformation in any organization. Marchand emphasizes the frame of mind needed to spark the innovation process, underscoring the importance of creating a problem-solving culture and supporting personal curiosity, passion, and talent. She pinpoints the strengths shared by the big ideas that break through and debunks the myths that hold back aspiring creators. Drawing on her experience as a woman in a male-dominated field, Marchand discusses how to support entrepreneurship by women and highlights the contributions of underrepresented innovators.
Marchand’s how-to program for innovation is clear and easy to follow, featuring a toolkit of strategic templates and planning frameworks that are illustrated by helpful case studies. Written in authoritative but conversational language, The Innovation Mindset offers a practical plan for both the veteran with another great idea and the first-timer with a big dream.
IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises?
James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of IBM’s corporate culture. He provides an inside look at how this culture emerged and evolved over the course of nearly a century, bringing together the perspectives of employees, executives, and customers around the world. Through a series of case studies, Inside IBM explores the practices that built and reinforced organizational culture, including training of managers, employee benefits, company rituals, and the role of humor. It also considers the importance of material culture, such as coffee mugs and lapel pins.
Cortada argues that IBM’s corporate culture aligned with its business imperatives for most of its history, allowing it to operate with a variety of stakeholders in mind and not simply prioritize stockholders. He identifies key lessons that managers can learn from IBM’s experience and apply in their own organizations today. This engaging and deeply researched book holds many insights for business historians, executives and managers concerned with stakeholder relations, professionals interested in corporate culture, and IBMers.
In his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth bomb: ‘Three relationships determine our life’s course – time, money, and ourselves.’
Now, in his third book, Make Epic Money, he dives deep into the complex world of money to provide you with the ultimate personal-finance blueprint. Drawing on a lifetime of experience of financial highs and lows, he shares everything he has learnt about money that he wishes someone had taught him when he was young.
Prepare to unlock the secrets to financial well-being with this no-nonsense guide. Say goodbye to confusing jargon and hello to practical advice. Discover how to earn, spend and make your money work just as hard for you as you do for it.
गौतम अदाणी एक ऐसे बिज़नेस एंपायर के संचालक हैं जिसमें पोर्ट्स, रिन्युअल एनर्जी, हवाई अड्डे, सिटी गैस डिस्ट्रिब्यूशन, पावर ट्रांसमिशन, थर्मल पावर, खाद्य तेल, सीमेंट और रेलवे लाइनें शामिल हैं और अब उनका ही अदाणी समूह जल्द टेलीकम्युनिकेशंस, डेटा सर्विसेज़, तांबा, एल्यूमिनियम और इस्पात उत्पादन जैसे क्षेत्रों में प्रवेश करने की तैयारी में है। वर्तमान में, अदाणी एशिया के साथ ही विश्व के टॉप वेल्थ जेनेरेटर्स में गिने जाते हैं। समाचारों की सुर्ख़ियों में बने रहने के बावजूद, स्वनामधन्य इस बिज़नेसमैन के बारे में, या उनकी प्रेरणाओं, दृष्टिकोण, जीवन और सफलता से जुड़ी यात्रा के बारे में बहुत कम जानकारियाँ उपलब्ध हैं।
यह किताब इसी कमी को पूरी करती है। लम्बे समय से गौतम अदाणी के करियर को अपनी पैनी दृष्टि से देखने वाले और भारत के वरिष्ठ पत्रकारों में से एक, आरएन भास्कर ने यह अनूठी किताब लिखी है जिसमें कठिन तथ्यों को एक कहानी के जैसे पेश किया गया है।
आख़िर क्यों हम अपने आप को परिस्थितियों में अटका हुआ पाते हैं?
आख़िर क्यों कुछ लोग हर तरह की सीमाओं को तोड़ पाते हैं?
आख़िर कैसे दायरों को तोड़ कर हासिल होती है एक असीमित ज़िंदगी?
इस पुस्तक में इन सवालों के जवाब समाहित हैं। यह पुस्तक, लेखक गौरव उपाध्याय पंद्रह वर्षों के अंतर्राष्ट्रीय कैरियर के अनुभव, 1000 से ज़्यादा लोगों से साक्षात्कार, सोशल मीडिया के ज़रिए जुड़े लाखों लोगों से सीखे गए सबक और जीवन के कई पहलुओं को नए नज़रिए से देखने की एक कोशिश का सार है।
खुद को बेहतर तरीके से जानने से लेकर अपनी नई कहानी लिखने तक, आप सीखेंगे की जीवन को कैसे आसान बनाया जाए? कैसे अपने माइंड-सेट को बदलकर नए जीवन की संकल्पना कैसे करें? दुख और पीड़ा को गले लगाकर खुद को नया जीवन कैसे दिया दें? समय की सीमाओं को कैसे समझें और टाइम-मैनेजमेंट को नए दृष्टिकोण से कैसे देखें?
इस पुस्तक में आपको वास्तविक जीवन से व्यावहारिक उदाहरण और दिल को छू लेने वाली सच्ची कहानियों के संदर्भ मिलेंगे। इस किताब के साथ आप खुद से भी संवाद कर सकेंगे। ज़िंदगी अनलिमिटेड आसमान से भी ऊँची उड़ान भरने के आपके प्रयास में आपकी मार्गदर्शक है और आपकी सबसे अच्छी दोस्त भी।
Manmohan Singh’s 1991 Union Budget speech made history by altering the course of the Indian
economy, especially its financial sector. His measures took a broom to multiple cobwebs in this sector. What Manmohan Singh started over three decades ago is still a work in progress today, but it does raise some questions: Why did he focus on financial sector reforms? What has motivated continuing these reforms?
This book tries to answer questions like these while focusing on the evolution of financial sector reforms which, oddly, remain incomplete even after thirty years. The fabric of this sector has been fraying and initiatives over the past three decades have resembled hasty, temporary needlework; the patchwork, incomplete reforms make the sector further vulnerable to failure. Hence: Slip, Stitch and Stumble.
This book does not claim to present an exhaustive history of financial sector reforms. Instead, it examines the provocations behind some of India’s big-ticket reforms while trying to understand the motivation of players who have been putting roadblocks on the path to progress. All this even as a closed economy
was transforming into one of the world’s
fastest-growing economies.
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“The money is already there. The only thing preventing you from being rich is YOU.”
Studies have shown it takes only 21 days for a new habit to take root. If there’s a skill you’ve always wanted to take advantage of, the answer is only 21 days away with Hay House’s 21 Days Series.
Dynamic corporate speaker and coach, Cassandra Worthy, introduces a growth mindset practice that helps readers to view change and the emotions surrounding it as a gift.
Cassandra Worthy is a highly sought-after consultant, speaker, and Change Enthusiast, who is sharing her revolutionary approach for not only embracing change but using it to propel you to heights you never imagined. Only 10 percent of successful change adoption is about know-how; the other 90 percent is centered squarely on the motivation and willingness to accept the change. Cassandra explains that if you don’t address the emotions surrounding change then your transformation journey will be stopped in its tracks.
In this book, Cassandra will teach you to:
• Redefine your relationship to change
• Embrace “negative” emotions and use them for epic growth and transformation
• Make conscious, productive choices in the face of disruption of any sort
• Develop your resilience muscle
• View change as something that happens for you vs. to you
Cassandra’s practical yet inspiring strategies can inspire anyone to authentically embrace change and find their own unique power of resilience during turbulent times. Using insights gleaned from her life, those of her clients, and the tools and exercises she has refined over the years, Cassandra Worthy has written the playbook for anyone leading, influencing, going through, or embarking upon change.
‘अगर आप अपने निवेश का आधार मज़बूत और अपने लिए उज्जवल भविष्य सुरक्षित करना चाहते हैं, तो आपको यह पुस्तक अवश्य पढ़नी चाहिए!’—नीलेश शाह, प्रबन्ध निदेशक, कोटक महिंद्रा एसेट मैनेजमेंट कम्पनी लिमिटेडअगर आप समझ नहीं पाते कि आपकी गाढ़ी कमाई महीने के आख़िर तक कहाँ उड़ जाती है तो आपको आर्थिक रूप से सजग होने की आवश्यकता है जिसमें यह पुस्तक आपकी सहायता करती है।आपकी आमदनी कितनी होनी चाहिए, इसकी जगह यह पुस्तक इस बात पर ज़ोर देती है कि आप अपनी आमदनी का क्या करें, अपने आर्थिक लक्ष्यों को समझदारी से कैसे पाएँ, अपने बीमा और ऋणों का कुशल प्रबन्धन कैसे करें, या सही जगह पर सतर्कता से निवेश कैसे करें ताकि बचत का पैसा आपके लिए लाभ भी जुटाए।आर्थिक क्षेत्र में वर्षों के अनुभवी लेखक सीए अभिजीत कोलपकर पुस्तक में बड़े सरल तरीके से पाठकों को कारगर सलाहें देते हैं कि पैसों की बचत और अपना आर्थिक विकास किस तरह करें। वो आकर्षक रेखाचित्रों एवं सारणियों से सिखाते हैं कि उनके जीवन में पैसे की केन्द्रीय भूमिका और उससे जुड़ी मूल बातें क्या हैं।
The Golden Touch lays out the extraordinary story of Kalyan Jewellers and the life of its founder, T.S. Kalyanaraman. It is the very personal account of a visionary with humble beginnings from Thrissur who set up one of the largest jewellery stores in the country—a Rs 17,000 crore behemoth employing over 8000 people.
This captivating autobiography offers an intimate glimpse into the transformative moments that shaped the life of a remarkable individual who dared to dream big and turn those dreams into reality. Through the pages of this compelling autobiography, you’ll follow the author’s evolution from a curious and ambitious young mind to a seasoned business leader who has left an indelible mark on the world of entrepreneurship.
The Golden Touch provides a novel perspective on building a business empire and inspiring generations of entrepreneurs and dreamers.
