India is already the world’s fifth-largest economy. Unlike most markets of its size, India is, and for a long time will be, driven by lots and lots of small consumers earning and spending just a little bit each, which adds up to an enormous amount. On the supply side, these consumers are served by numerous small, agile suppliers who challenge large companies by innovating to satisfy their price-performance demands. India’s vibrant digital revolution now offers the keys to cracking open this infamously tricky market. Digital business models will be the future of competition as they harness the power of the small and create large-scale businesses in the years to come. Lilliput Land provides a ‘people lens’ to understand the paradoxes and challenges that dot India’s market opportunity, and discusses the drivers and shapers of its future. A comprehensive three-part framework of structure-behaviour-supply discusses the present and future of India’s mega consumption story, the most exciting in the world, with over half of its GDP accounted for by domestic consumption.
Consumer India is ripe and waiting.
आज का भारत किधर जा रहा है? क्या यह इंग्लैंड को पाँचवे पायदान से पछाड़कर आगे वाकई विकास की राह पर है या अपने लाखों-करोड़ों युवाओं को रोजगार देने में नाकामयाब हो रहा है? भारत आज चौराहे पर है। गलाकाट प्रतियोगिता और ऑटोमेशन इसके विनिर्माण क्षेत्र के लिए खतरा बन गए हैं। इस किताब में लेखकद्वय कह रहे हैं कि हम कैसे अपने मानव संसाधन पर ध्यान देकर और अपने मैनुफैक्चरिक सेक्टर को बढ़ाकर देश को तरक्की की राह पर ला सकते हैं। इसके लिए आर्थिक सुधार, संस्थाओं का लोकतांत्रिकरण और विकेंद्रीकरण पर ध्यान देना होगा।
India’s Finance Ministers: Stumbling into Reforms (From 1977 to 1998) is the second volume in the series of books on some of India’s unforgettable finance ministers. Analysing the role of India’s finance ministers who managed India’s economy during one of its worst phases (post Emergency to the late 1990s), the book highlights the lasting impact they left on India’s political economy. This volume also provides a fascinating account of India’s economic history offering an incisive view of the key events in India’s journey from an closed, agrarian economy to a liberal economy.
Critically examining the decision making of the finance ministers , the book provides interesting insights into the relations between them and their prime ministers and to what extent these relations influenced their decisions.
Full of exciting stories, this is the ultimate work on the critical role finance minister plays in the functioning of an economy.
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John J. Murphy has updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to include all of the financial markets. This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotation, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today’s financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change:
We can always change. In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg translates cutting-edge behavioural science into practical self-improvement action, distilling advanced neuroscience into fascinating narratives of transformation.
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive:
Drawing on the very latest findings in neuroscience, psychology and behavioural economics, he demonstrates the eight simple principles that govern productivity. He demonstrates how the most dynamic and effective people – from CEOs to film-makers to software entrepreneurs – deploy them. And he shows how you can, too.
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।
