What qualities do you need to be a successful manager, and how can you develop the qualities you already possess? Managers Who Make a Difference examines how managers’ perceptions about themselves shape their behaviour at work, and studies the ways in which people can translate their ambition, sense of purpose, perseverance, confidence, and resourcefulness into successful management. How can you train yourself to spot competences in others and build on them to create an effective team? How do you achieve the right balance between adherence to existing systems, and creative or experimental problem-solving? And do you have the people skills-the ability to network extensively and build trust-based relationships-required to be a leader? Richly illustrated with anecdotes and experiences of well-known managers, and with a broad array of tips and self-assessment tools to sharpen your management skills, this book is a must read for all practising and aspiring managers. The IIM Ahmedabad Business Books bring key issues in management and business to a general audience. With a wealth of information and illustrations from contemporary Indian businesses, these non-academic and user-friendly books from the faculty of IIM Ahmedabad are essential corporate reading.
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Kiss of Life
How do you deal with the most difficult moments in your life?
Every experience that we go through changes us and helps us grow. As we learn to laugh and cry, win and lose, share and care, the meaning of life and true happiness unfolds before us. Known for his bold forays into Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi walks us through his memories that have shaped him-from a confused teenager who dabbled in a variety of things to finding his calling to the suave, smart and unorthodox actor he has become today. At the heart of his story lies the most important and transformative experience of his life-the period when his son, Ayyan, was battling with cancer. It reveals the man behind the limitless charm of Emraan Hashmi and how he dealt with his son’s illness. Honest, personal, bold and heart-warming, The Kiss of Life is about an actor and a father’s trials and triumphs.
Super 30
Anand Kumar, a mathematics prodigy, defied all challenges to set up one of the most successful and innovative teaching initiatives in the world-Super 30.
Born in Chandipur Bela, Patna, Anand secured a place in Cambridge University but couldn’t attend because he had no money and sold papads in the evenings instead. He dealt with his own disappointment by setting up an innovative school in 2002 to prepare underprivileged students for the IIT JEE examination. Super 30 has an astonishing success rate and on an average, twenty-seven to twenty-eight of the thirty students crack the exam every year.
Stirring and heart-wrenching, this is the extraordinary story of a visionary who has elevated these bright sparks and, through education, given them hope to rise above crippling poverty.
Bandhan
This is the story of Bandhan, the only bank that emerged in eastern India after Independence. Founded by the son of a sweet vendor, with a mere Rs 2 lakh, the sum total of his life savings.
On 17 June, 2015, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh stepped out of the Reserve Bank of India building in Mumbai with the much-coveted banking licence, beating some of the country’s top corporate houses. This moment compensated for all the frustrations that had come along the way. A year later, Bandhan Bank was launched with 6.7 million small borrowers.
So, how did Ghosh build India’s biggest MFI from scratch and then, along with his team, transform it into a universal bank? Bandhan: The Making of a Bank chronicles that journey.
This is also Ghosh’s personal story-of a boy growing up in small-town Agartala struggling with poverty, but relentless in his ambition to make it big. He battles competition, hostile moneylenders, a tough economic climate and the perpetual lack of resources. Nobody in India perhaps knows better than him the psyche of a small borrower and the alchemy of doing business with the poor, profitably.
This is one of India’s biggest entrepreneurial stories.
Entrepreneurship Simplified
One of the most exciting feelings in the world is when you take the leap to become an entrepreneur and launch your own start-up. However, there are a couple of obvious questions that come to your mind when you take that entrepreneurial plunge: What are the things you should plan ahead for? What are the pitfalls you need to watch out for?
In Entrepreneurship Simplified, Ashok Soota and S.R. Gopalan not only answer these questions but also distil their decades of experience into a concise, comprehensive and practical guide for every aspiring entrepreneur, as well as for those who have already embarked on their entrepreneurial journey. From idea generation and validation to raising funds and dealing with VCs, from building the organization and its mission, vision and values, defining a business and marketing strategy to creating and sharing wealth and, finally, taking your company public through an IPO – Soota and Gopalan discuss the entire gamut of the entrepreneurial experience.
Full of anecdotes, practical wisdom and key takeaways, Entrepreneurship Simplified is the definitive book on the subject that replicates the passion, fun and sense of fulfilment that accompany the start-up adventure.
Inside Chanakya’s Mind
Chanakya was one of the best strategic thinkers of the world. In the fourth century BC, he wrote the Arthashastra, an unrivalled political treatise that has since been used by leaders across the globe. In Inside Chanakya’s Mind, for the first time, Radhakrishnan Pillai, the bestselling author of Corporate Chanakya, will distil Chanakya’s age-old wisdom on how to think to the masses through his practical and innovative approach.
The Case of the Bonsai Manager
The Case of the Bonsai Manager is the perfect antidote for managers who feels they are not achieving their full potential.Effective leadership is not just about hard facts but also about listening to, and using, your intuition. Using anecdotes from nature and the world of management, R.Gopalakrishnan explores how you can be more intuitive, inclusive and humane.
The revised and updated edition of this bestselling book, with its easy to read anecdotal style, adds additional material to re-enforce the key messages, including a new self-help workbook.
How to Be a Mathemagician
Mathematics is an integral part of our life but many of us think of it only as a subject to be studied in school or college. In this book, Aditi and Sudhir Singhal, renowned maths educators, demystify mathematical principles and outline fascinating, fun and easy-to-learn techniques to excel in this field. Divided into two parts, How to Be a Mathemagician is a double-sided book (flip the book around to switch between sections!) that packs twice the punch, with one section containing tricks and delightful activities, and the other stimulating problem-solving steps to simplify calculations, quirky maths facts and much more.
Meant for all age groups-students, teachers and parents alike, How to Be a Mathemagician will make you fall in love with the world of numbers.
What I Did Not Learn in B School
Every year, top performers join management ranks in their companies. As they assume their new roles, managers often receive inadequate training on adopting the right mindsets and behaviors to succeed.
Combining his experience as the founder and CEO of MAQ Software, with research by leading management thinkers such as Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg, Rajeev Agarwal offers insights on key issues faced by managers, including motivating team members, what a manager does and why they are so busy, how to delegate, train a team, provide feedback, retain employees and whether pay matters
Whether you are a recent MBA graduate or an aspiring manager, What I Did Not Learn in B-School provides useful tools to set you on the path to managerial success.
From Lehman to Demonetization
How did the Indian banking industry protect itself from the Lehman crash?
What nearly wiped out the MFI sector in India?
Why are public-sector banks suffering from a large pile of NPAs?
What is the conflict between the RBI and the finance ministry?
From Lehman to Demonetization is the epic story of banking in India in the last decade. The years from 2007 to 2017 were the most tumultuous and exciting time for this sector, which saw D. Subbarao, Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel as RBI governors working with finance ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and Arun Jaitley.
What a decade it has been-from India’s first MFI, SKS Microfinance, entering the capital market to the near death of the industry; the RBI giving the nod to twenty-three banks and becoming an inflation targeter; from 9 per cent economic growth for three consecutive years to the jolt of demonetization.
Featuring essays and interviews with the who’s who of this sector, including Deepak Parekh, K.V. Kamath, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chanda Kochchar, Aditya Puri, Shikha Sharma, Raghuram Rajan, U.K. Sinha and Viral Acharya, this book makes for a riveting read.
If you had to read one book on banking in India, let this be it!