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Leaders in the Making

Leaders in the Making

The Crucibles of Change-Makers in HR

Arvind Agrawal
,
T.V. Rao
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Leaders in the Making includes in-depth interviews of thirty HR leaders, drawn from public as well as private sectors. These life stories provide highlights of their early childhood, education and career over the years, and touch upon the inflexion points in these leaders’ lives, their major influences and the lessons they learnt to become who they are. The authors provide an analysis of these thirty stories to establish a pattern of the life journeys, competencies and values these leaders displayed.

The book has excellent lessons for parents, heads of schools and colleges, teachers, managers, HR leaders, CXOs and CEOs. It also includes self-help tools to assess competencies, values and the careers of readers so that they can plan for self-development.

Imprint: Penguin Business

Published: Aug/2022

ISBN: 9780143459972 (Paperback)

ISBN: 9780670097005 (Hardback)

Length : 480 Pages

MRP : ₹799.00

Leaders in the Making

The Crucibles of Change-Makers in HR

Arvind Agrawal
,
T.V. Rao

Leaders in the Making includes in-depth interviews of thirty HR leaders, drawn from public as well as private sectors. These life stories provide highlights of their early childhood, education and career over the years, and touch upon the inflexion points in these leaders’ lives, their major influences and the lessons they learnt to become who they are. The authors provide an analysis of these thirty stories to establish a pattern of the life journeys, competencies and values these leaders displayed.

The book has excellent lessons for parents, heads of schools and colleges, teachers, managers, HR leaders, CXOs and CEOs. It also includes self-help tools to assess competencies, values and the careers of readers so that they can plan for self-development.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Arvind Agrawal

Arvind N. Agrawal brings over five decades of corporate leadership to his work as an executive coach, leadership consultant, and author. As the Managing Partner of Lead Associates, he draws upon a distinguished career that includes serving as Management Board Member and President of HR at RPG Group, and as Chief Executive Officer at Escorts Construction Equipment and Escorts JCB (now JCB India). His expertise also encompasses strategic roles, including Head of Corporate Strategy and Marketing, and Head of Human Resource & Total Quality at Modi Xerox (now Xerox India).

He served as the National President of the National HRD Network during the year 2000-2002 and honoured with Life Time Achievement from Business World in 2021 and National HRD Network in 2023 . He is PhD from IIT Bombay, and a postgraduate in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad. He is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). He co-authored Leaders in the Making–Crucibles of Change-Makers in HR (published by Penguin Random House in 2022).

T.V. Rao

T.V. Rao is currently chairman, T.V. Rao Learning Systems. He has been associated with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for the last forty years in various capacities: first as a professor (1973-94), a visiting or adjunct professor (1994-2014) and, until recently, as a member of the IIMA Society and the board of governors. Dr Rao worked as HRD adviser to the Reserve Bank of India and he is the co-founder and first president of the National HRD Network.

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