A new workplace challenges you to pay attention to the aspects that drive your behaviour, attitudes, perceptions, and emotions. At the same time, recognizing the motives, needs, and emotions of others is imperative for personal leadership. This book will help you hone your collaborative instincts, embrace diversity, and engage effectively in a professional setting.
Based on the author’s experiences, and her observations over the years, Mastering Behaviour explores the main drivers of organizational behaviour. Applying popular psychology theories, the book helps in tackling difficult interpersonal and behavioural issues at work, such as personality clashes, stress, handling difficult interactions, and workplace loneliness.
With rapid technological advancement changing the way we connect, this book will provide insights to the real-world challenges of developing greater trust, engagement, and collaboration within teams and the organization.
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The Idea of Ancient India
How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended?
This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian subcontinent and the wider world. It highlights recent approaches and challenges in reconstructing South Asia’s early history, and in doing so, brings out the exciting complexities of ancient India.
Authoritative and incisive, this revised Penguin edition-with two new chapters-is essential reading for students and scholars of ancient Indian history and for all those interested in India’s past.
Unlocking Unicorn Secrets
In 2022, India, second only to the US, produced more unicorns than any other country in the world. Although ours is a vibrant ecosystem that encourages young minds to take the entrepreneurial plunge, the road ahead is full of pitfalls.
Unlocking Unicorn Secrets captures the entrepreneurial journeys of some of India’s new-age founders and looks at the challenges they faced and how they overcame them. It covers themes such as developing an idea, building out the minimum viable product (MVP), finding a co-founder, setting up the founding team, raising funds and scaling the business, among others. Through primary research and a series of interviews conducted with the founders of these billion-dollar companies, the authors weave a narrative that is both accessible and informative.
The book is a manifestation of the authors’ passion for inculcating the entrepreneurial mindset in our nation’s youth, which they do masterfully, by illustrating the success stories of India’s top unicorns.
Strategy Huddle
Though Sun Tzu’s The Art of War was written 2,500 years ago, strategy is seen as a young discipline in business management. Over the last half to three-fourths of a century, strategy has carved its own niche in the larger business management realm. Strategy Huddle: Management Lessons from Sports draws out significant strategic management knowledge from twenty-seven different phenomena in diverse sports including soccer, basketball, marathon, boxing, chess and cricket. The practical applications of these strategies are shown through business case scenarios in this book. For new managers seeking to sharpen their strategic management concepts such as blue ocean, behavioural and network strategies as well as for strategic thinkers interested in understanding the deeper connections between strategy and sports, this book brings to the readers an enriching learning and strategic experience.
Ideas on Demand
10x your ideas and accelerate your success
Do you feel stuck?
Do you feel that the lack of creativity is hurting your career growth?
As a marketer or startup, do you struggle to make your brand or business stand out?
Do you see the opportunities but don’t know how to make the most of them?
Do you believe that creativity is not your cup of tea?
Do you wonder, how innovators, inventors, and great creative minds can generate ideas on demand and create a wow?
How would your life change if you could generate creative ideas at will?
What if you could learn the creativity secrets practiced by great creative minds like Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Archimedes, Tesla, and business legends like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos?
Imagine having the ability to crack every challenge and open the door to an abundance of opportunities.
Imagine you being recognized as a go-to person for ideas.
The brains of creative people are wired differently.
But that’s just half the story. The good news is that you can rewire your brain too. As creativity is a skill and like any other skill can be learned by practicing in the right direction.
IDEAS ON DEMAND will show you the way to rewire your brain, become an idea machine, 10x your impact, and achieve your aspirations.
This book will help you:
• Understand 6 major creativity blocks and how to bust them
• Learn the exact techniques that creative people use to connect the different dots to generate wow ideas.
• Challenge assumptions to unshackle your creativity.
• Use constraints to boost your creativity.
• 10x your ideas and set yourself apart>
• Develop the unlimited self confidence to leap from your comfort zone to 10x zone.
With the help of some solid research findings, you will understand what exactly happens in the brain during the Eureka or Aha moments. How your subconscious mind plays a critical role in getting those wow ideas. You will also learn different ways to train your subconscious mind to flood you with ideas.
It will help you learn the techniques that creative people use to connect the different dots to generate wow ideas. Use constraints to boost your creativity and develop unlimited self- confidence to leap from your comfort zone to 10x zone.
A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
In the fifteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title story, a closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover’s wife. An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An
American musician travels to see his guru for the final time-and makes a promise he cannot keep. A young woman from an Indian village arrives in Brooklyn to care for the toddler of a biracial couple. And a mystical agent is sent by a mother to solve her son’s domestic problems.
Throughout, the characters’ most vulnerable desires shape life-altering decisions as they seek to balance their needs against those of the people they hold closest. The stories in A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness capture men and women struggling with transformation and familial bonds; they traverse the intersections of countries and cultures to illuminate what it means to love in uncertain times; and they showcase the skill of a storyteller who dazzles with the breadth of his vision.
The Book of Vows
This is the first part of a trilogy on the Mahabharata. Grounded in the original Sanskrit epic, Majmudar recreates the ancient epic for a contemporary audience. It is his finest work yet and is one of the most accessible, magical and unputdownable retellings of the Mahabharata. The Book of Vows will be followed by The Book of Discoveries and The Book of Killings.
Shadows at Noon
Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the household are given equal importance to discussions of nationhood, the development of the state and patterns of migration.
While it tells the subcontinent’s story from the British Raj to independence and partition and on to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the book’s structure is thematic rather than chronological. Each of the chapters illuminates on overarching theme or sphere that has shaped South Asia over the course of the century. This format allows the reader to explore particular issues – such as the changing character of nationalism or food consumption – over time and in depth.
Shadows at Noon is a bold, innovative and personal work that pushes back against standard narratives of ‘inherent’ differences between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Its purpose is to make contemporary South Asia intelligible to readers who are fascinated by the subcontinent’s cultural vibrancy and diversity but are often perplexed by its social and political make-up. And it illuminates the many aspects that its people have in common rather than what divides them.
You’ll Be the Death of Me
From the international bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new addictive thriller.
Ivy, Mateo and Cal used to be close – best friends back in middle school.
Now all they have in common is a bad day. So for old time’s sake they skip school together – one last time.
But when the trio spot Brian ‘Boney’ Mahoney ditching class too, they follow him – right into a murder scene.
They all have a connection to the victim. And they’re ALL hiding something.
When their day of freedom turns deadly, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out . . .
It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with murder, perfect for fans of One Of Us Is Lying and A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. This explosive new thriller is impossible to put down.
Peppa Pig: 1000 First Words Sticker Book
Toddlers will love learning 1000 new words with Peppa in this brilliant new sticker book!
Look at the pictures, say the words out loud, then peel off the stickers and play!
Explore themes such as family, home, nature, objects, animals, friends, playtime, food, shopping, seasons, travel and adventure. Packed with stickers and hours of fun for learning at home!