How smart a manager are you? How good are you at leveraging your knowledge and skills in order to provide value for your business and your customers? How smart is your management team when it comes to understanding both the fundamentals of business and new trends? How to Be Your Own Management Guru is the perfect answer to those looking to master the fundamentals of managing in the modern world: how to make and implement strategy; how to understand and respond to customer needs; how to manage and get the best out of people; and above all, how to use knowledge. Drawing on both business research and examples of best practice from around the world, past and present, How to Be Your Own Management Guru will help readers manage more effectively, and do business the smart way.
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The Liberalization Story
Why was liberalization important for India? What was its effect on sectors like IT, banking, telecom, etc.? How did it help Indian entrepreneurs build international businesses? And where do we go from here?
The Liberalization Story is a selection of essays which explain the most important financial event in modern Indian history and its impact. The book contains candid interviews with decision-makers like Montek Singh Ahluwalia and entrepreneurs like Sunil Bharti Mittal and Uday Kotak, who give a ringside view into the changing Indian economy.
How did we reach here? The book also explains the present in the context of our past. It tackles some important questions which explain the overall Indian economy today: what led to the rise of private equity; how did dynamics of family businesses change; how did MNCs conquer the Indian market; how did the Indian middle class change; what led to the digital wave; what led to India leapfrogging to innovation, among many others. A highly readable book which shares a holistic view of the twenty-five years of Indian liberalization.
The Penguin Guide to Winning On the the Stock Market
To the uninitiated, the stock market can appear a forbidding place where years of savings can be wiped out overnight. Yet, for the informed investor, it is one of the most effective ways to increasing wealth. In this accessible guide, Ashu Dutt, author of The Penguin Guide to Personal Finance, provides expert advice on how the stock market works, what shares are all about and what the wise investor should look out for. Drawing upon his years of experience as a broker and an investment adviser, he offers a fresh perspective on the inner workings of the Indian stock market. But, most importantly, he informs the reader of winning strategies-the tools, weapons and intelligence needed to navigate the market. The book covers, among other topics, market mechanics, how the price of a stock is determined, tools of the trade, stock market indices, developing an investment philosophy and what kind of stocks to pick.
Extremely reader-friendly, this book should enable even a layman investor to rub shoulders confidently with the bulls and the bears of the stock market.
The Other Side of Belief
Described as the thinker who shuns thought, U.G. Krishnamurti is the most enigmatic and iconoclastic ‘anti-guru’ of our times. His conviction that doubt is the other side of belief emerged from an uncompromising negation of everything that can be expressed, not from a desire for some ‘comfy dialectical thesis’.
The Other Side of Belief Interpreting U G. Krishnamurti is a candid and refreshing chronicle ofUG’s life and the evolution of his radical outlook and ideas. Tracing the development of UG’s notion of enlightenment as a series of biological mutations devoid of mystical or religious connotations, Mukunda Rao weaves a complex portrait—of a man who doesn’t hesitate to challenge and demolish society’s most cherished and comforting values and ideals, but nonetheless commands a most fervent respect and veneration from multitudes of admirers.
UG has always been adamant that life must be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms so that it is de-psychologized and demystified. He underwent, in his own words, a ‘calamity’: a series of bodily metamorphoses that catapulted him into the unique state of the ‘declutched’ mind. This book gives the reader a vivid description of UG’s cellular revolution’ and an intensely personal insight into UG’s unflinching and relentless insistence on freedom from the ‘stranglehold of thought.’
With a foreword by Mahesh Bhatt, film-maker and lifelong admirer of UG, The Other Side of Belief offers a searching exploration of the incredible charisma of a man who has transformed the lives of people all over the world.
Bollywood Nation
Bollywood Nation charts the evolution of Indian cinema from its mythological films in the early 20th century to its world-class gangster and terrorist melodramas of today. In doing so, the book investigates why and how our films have become so deeply embedded in the nation’s popular imagination. Is it merely that cinema is the only common form of mass national culture in a country that does not have either a common language or a common religion—or is it entwined with greater social, cultural and spiritual aspirations?
By narrating the story of India through the stories that our films tell us, Vamsee Juluri posits cinema as the voice of the nation and examines how it has shaped our understanding of our place in the world.
Conversations With Waheeda Rehman
‘A remarkable book’ — Vogue
In this highly acclaimed book of conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir, Waheeda Rehman speaks about her life and work with refreshing honesty, humour and insight: from detailing her personal triumphs and tribulations to giving enthralling accounts of working with cinematic personalities like Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand. Against all odds, she successfully made a life in cinema on her own terms. Filled with compelling anecdotes and astute observations, this is a riveting slice of film history that provides a rare view of a much-adored and award-winning screen legend.
‘Insightful . . . Rehman speaks with honesty and humour’-India Today
‘An engaging and revealing account’-Rajeev Masand
‘A fascinating account of a great actor’s life’-Anupama Chopra
‘Delightful . . . Candid, real and personal’-Dawn
Hussain Zaidi box set
S. Hussain Zaidi is India’s No. 1 crime writer. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Dongri to Dubai: Six decades of the Mumbai Mafia, Mafia Queens of Mumbai, Black Friday and My Name is Abu Salem. His latest book, Dangerous Minds was on Amazon’s ‘Best Reads’ list for November 2017. A veteran of investigative, crime and terror reporting, he has worked for the Asian Age, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day and the Indian Express. He is also the associate producer of the HBO movie Terror in Mumbai, based on the 26/11 terror attack. He lives with his family in Mumbai.
The Quotable Tycoon
Containing more than 700 instructive perceptive and often outrageous views on business from the world’s most powerful corporate leaders and entrepreneurs The Quotable Tycoon covers more than a century of inspirational irreverent and timely insights. Dhirubhai Ambani Warren Buffett Narayana Murthy John D. Rockefeller Akio Morita Jack Welch J.R.D. Tata Donald Trump Aditya Vikram Birla Oprah Winfrey Shikha Sharma and Bill Gates are among the scores of tycoons from Asia North America and Europe whose witty and provocative comments appear in this book. They are complemented by wry reflections on business by such varied observers as Mark Twain Mae West Winston Churchill and Peter Drucker. The quotes are arranged thematically so that the thoughts of business leaders throughout history can be easily scanned.
In this wonderful treasury David Olive and Gita Piramal not only provide the reader with hours of entertaining and stimulating reading but also present anyone in search of a witty sharp remark on business with the perfect reference book.
Going Places
How eleven men from the margins changed the way cricket is played and perceived beyond the metros. This is the story of a unique XI made up of cricketers–among them, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, Munaf Patel and S. Sreesanth–who made the leap from the hinterland to centre stage. Difficult as it is to become a top-flight cricketer in India, it is doubly so for those growing up in small towns and villages. Yet there have been inspiring exceptions who have not let place names such as Azamgarh, Davangere, Ikhar, Jalandhar, Jamnagar, Kakur, Meerut, Muradnagar, Naichanpur, Najafgarh and Ranchi deter them from realizing their ambitions. These men have made the transition from rice fields and akharas to hallowed sports grounds, from abject poverty and menial jobs to IPL riches, from tennis balls and rough-hewn bats to shiny, red leather balls and sponsored cricket bats. A combination of a supportive family, a determined coach, talent and sheer hard work did the trick for them. Without this mix, the gentleman’s game would have lost these gifted players to farming, a job in Africa or driving a truck in Canada. India is fortunate to have this ‘team’ of small-town cricket heroes.
Offshore
BPOs and call centres are the workplace of choice for more than 2 million young Indians today. The mushrooming rise of innumerable BPOs in India is a reflection of the phenomenal success of the offshore delivery model worldwide. The Indian IT services industry alone is worth over $70 billion today and contributes to more than 5 per cent of the country’s GDP. Offshoring is part of a global phenomenon, where people work for clients in other countries who they’ve never met, without ever having to travel out of their own city. The offshore delivery model—which has created a global workforce working around the clock in different parts of the world to reach productivity and efficiency standards that could not be dreamt of earlier—has effectively put India back on the international business map. Yet few people understand what the offshore services business actually involves, and what makes an offshore services company tick. This book, authored by industry insiders Gaurav Rastogi and Basab Pradhan, reveals the inner workings of the business, with fascinating stories and anecdotes. As they explain the workings of the offshore services model worldwide, paying particular attention to the industry’s development in India, the authors demystify much of the jargon associated with offshoring, and bust a few popular myths