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This book is one of the most rare books dealing with cognitive health. It not only explains the important role of cognitive health in human life, but indicates when it is affected, it’s correlates, as well as strategies to maintain it. A special feature of this book is that it encompasses the Indian perspective in…
The Farmer Leader: Future of Leadership presents a transformative philosophy inspired by the timeless wisdom of farming. As technological advancements accelerate, posing existential challenges to humanity, this book underscores the urgent need for leaders to adopt human-centered approaches. It serves as both a guide for excelling in current leadership roles and a roadmap for preparing…
The Farmer Leader: Future of Leadership presents a transformative philosophy inspired by the timeless wisdom of farming. As technological advancements accelerate, posing existential challenges to humanity, this book underscores the urgent need for leaders to adopt human-centered approaches. It serves as both a guide for excelling in current leadership roles and a roadmap for preparing…
Transformative Leadership: Embracing Change in a Dynamic World” explores the multifaceted nature of leadership in contemporary society. It examines the critical skills, strategies, and mindsets leaders need to thrive amidst rapid technological advancements, societal shifts, and global challenges. Each chapter delves into specific themes, offering insights, case studies, and practical tools to empower leaders to…
The goal for everyone is not survival, but thriving. Businesses want to thrive, leaders want to thrive, young & mid-level professionals want to thrive. Then where’s the gap? I believe that young managers, employees, and sometimes even founders often struggle to understand and navigate through the organization and leverage the positives of the organization’s culture….
Dr.Vidya Hattangadi is a prolific writer. She is known for her scholarly writings in management studies. Her blog www.drvidyahattangadi.com is a testament to her academic passion. She is a successful PhD. guide to over 20 PhDs in management studies. She has been awarded the “Outstanding Faculty in Management Studies” by Bombay Management Association in 2024.
Dr.T.S. Gugapriya is currently working as a professor of Anatomy and coordinator of the Centre for Medical Education Technologies at AIIMS Nagpur. She is a passionate teacher with 20 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience. She is a FAIMER fellow and an innovative trainer for faculty development programs. She mentors research in medical education to develop evidence-based educational interventions. Loves interacting with people and being a team person.
Unlock your full potential with The Art of Living Well. This transformative self-help book, written in a clear and accessible style, delves into three essential and transformative themes for anyone looking to enhance their lives.
– Self-Mastery: Learn to harness the power within you. Navigate and diminish self-doubt, cultivate resilience, find true emotional balance, and attain lasting inner confidence and peace. Discover your purpose and passion.
– Interactional Excellence: Become proficient in the art of connection. Forge deep, meaningful relationships, enhance your communication skills, learn to stand up for yourself without ruffling others, and become a magnetic presence in both personal and professional spheres.
– Work as Service: Redefine success as service. Align your career with your values, make a positive impact, and create a life that truly matters.
This book is your roadmap to a life of profound contentment and achievement. Begin your journey towards living well and joyfully, today.
As a manager, do you struggle with legal technicalities related to contracts and arbitrations?
As an engineer managing a project, do you feel the immence pressure of the complexity of contracts?
This book presents contracts and arbitration from a business perspective and helps you to deal effectively with them while making strategic business decisions.
Release Date: 28th, August 2023
No. of Pages: 293
A new HRD function was created in mid-seventies by Udai Pareek and the author of this book recognizing the significance of competent and committed people in helping organizations achieve their purpose and goals. Subsequent studies across the globe have indicated that good HR systems and practices go a long way to make firms effective all the time. Studies have also shown that competent HRD staff and departments are critical to make such systems function well and create a culture of sustainability. Two decades after the start of the new HRD function, gaps have been found in understanding, structuring, disseminating and implementing good HRD in several corporations. In order to enhance the impact of HRD, a systematic review and evaluation of HRD systems, practices, competencies of HRD staff and other stakeholders was invented in early nineties and was called as “HRD Audit”. This book is an outline of such HRD audit to review and rejuvenate good HRD by assigning scores for an organization. Good HRD of any organization stands on four pillars: Systems, Competencies, Culture and Alignment. The strength of each pillar can be improved first be measuring and finding gaps and subsequently by strengthening the areas that need support. This volume presents tools and methodology to evaluate these four pillars of HRD: 1. HR systems, 2. Competencies of HR staff, top management and other employees, 3. HRD values and Organizational culture, and 4. Alignment as indicated by the HRD’s impact on intellectual CapitaLand financial out comes. The book presents detailed guidelines and framework for such measurement using 2500 points. The points are indicative the measures can be adjusted to suit the contextual reality of the user. We hope this volume will help you to examine your HR systems and practices, competencies of all those involved and enable you to create a right kind of culture and maximize your impact in achieving short term and long term goals of your organization.
About the Author
Dr. T. V. Rao is currently Chairman, TVRLS. A former professor and Board member at IIMA, he is the Founder President of National HRD Network and has been in the forefront of HRD movement in the country. Dr. Rao worked as a short-term consultant to UNESCO, Bangkok; USAID Indonesia; UNIDO Malaysia; and Commonwealth Secretariat, London and as HRD Consultant in India to over a hundred organizations in the public and private sectors. He received many awards including Ravi Matthai Fellow (AIMS), Asia Pacific HR Professional of the year 2019 (APFHRM) and Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Academy of Management. He has authored over 60 books.
Release Date: 15th, August 2023
No. of Pages: 203
“#Whatever: The Alternative Narrative” is a book which will compel readers to question assumptions about many key issues confronting us as we go hurtling towards our very uncertain future, hopefully wondering about why we choose to do what we do. Are we really free? What’s next?
About the Author
Dr. Mansi Kapoor, a renowned academic based in Pune, is an accomplished MBA graduate from India’s leading Central University (B.H.U) and holds a distinguished PhD in Leadership and Spirituality from the renowned Savitri Bai Phule Pune University. Her research interests revolve around sustainability, leadership, business environment, spirituality, philosophy, and culture studies. With two decades of remarkable corporate and academic experience, she brings a unique perspective to her work and writing.
Release Date: 9th, August2023
No. of Pages: 276
Spreadsheets Databases Analytics Graphs Statistics
Are these words enough to transport you into snooze mode?
Data is not essential for my job / business?
Is that what you think?
Analytical skills require exceptional intellect which is bestowed upon only chosen few.
Is that what you believe?
The ‘science of data’ is an exclusive club meant for data scientists alone.
Is that what you’ve been told?
This book will bust all these myths surrounding Data and the data averse nature in most people.
Data has become an inescapable reality of all our lives, professions, and businesses. And the need for driving decisions with data could not have been more pronounced than it is today. Data is not as complex as it has been made out to be. This book along with other books in the SIMPLY DATA series will simplify data for the most data-averse as also data-savvy person alike, enabling one and all to leverage the true power of data. You do not need any prior data, tools or technological knowledge to pick up this book and learn from it.
The first part of this book will help you understand data better and get more comfortable with it. The second part will guide you on decoding the meaning behind data using both the left – analytical thinking brain and the right – creative or intuitive thinking brain, to achieve whole brain thinking. From Analytical Reasoning to Pattern Recognition and developing an analytical mindset; To introducing for the very first time – the concept of Data Intuition, this book has it all! As a bonus, in part three you will also get an insight on using the storytelling technique for effective data communication.
Sejal Vora – Author, Tedx Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Times 40 under 40 Achiever, is the go-to name in the field of Data Analytics & Storytelling. She uses her practical experience and simplified teaching approach to rid corporate communications of ‘data dumps’, convert them into ‘stories’ and drive a Data to Decisions culture through her consulting & training services for organizations across all industries.
Release Date: 30th June, 2023
No. of Pages: 249
This book describes a method for solving non-standard problems, consisting of 5 steps.
The book contains a description of the logic of inventive problem solving. Much attention in the book is given to the practice of using these tools.
The material is quickly and easily absorbed. It is suitable for solving problems from any field of knowledge. This volume of knowledge is sufficient for solving many inventive problems. Much attention is given in this book to practice of using these tools, therefore, the book contains many tasks for independent work, which are analyzed in appendixes.
The book contains 88 problems of 41 for an independent solution. Author’s analysis of these problems is given in the appendix.
The book is intended for a broad circle of readers and will be especially useful for those who want to learn how to obtain new ideas quickly.
About Author
“Vladimir Petrov is the author of the provided information. He is known as the “Master of TRIZ” and serves as the President of the TRIZ Association of Israel. He is also a co-founder and co-organizer of the TRIZ Developers Summit and a scientific consultant for the European TRIZ Association.
Petrov was a member of the Presidium of the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) from its inception until 2006. He served as a member of the Expert and Methodological Council of MATRIZ, as well as the dissertation council for granting the degree of TRIZ Master from the establishment of MATRIZ until 2015.
The author has been involved in TRIZ since 1972. He was a student, colleague, and friend of TRIZ author Genrich Altshuller. Together with Altshuller, he conducted numerous TRIZ training seminars in various cities of the USSR. He co-organized the Leningrad Scientific School of TRIZ with Voluslav Mitrofanov and organized and delivered lectures in many TRIZ courses in the former USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, South Korea, and Israel. He also assisted in organizing TRIZ schools in Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Vietnam, and Israel.
He is a versatile TRIZ specialist with broad scientific interests. He dedicates a lot of attention to the development of laws and patterns of system development, forecasting, systemic research, ARIZ, field analysis, information resources, teaching methods of TRIZ for all age groups, and fostering inventive thinking in adults and children.
He has delivered over 50,000 hours of TRIZ lectures to adult and children audiences. He has trained several thousand students. He has solved over 5,000 inventive problems and completed over 500 projects for leading companies in the USA, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Israel, including Samsung, Intel, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corp., Boeing, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, BMW, BOSCH, CompAir, Philips Semiconductors, HP, Applied Materials, Google, Microsoft, and more.
He has delivered lectures on TRIZ at universities in South Korea, Russia, and Israel. He introduced certain concepts in TRIZ, such as resources. He developed specific laws, patterns, and trends of system development and co-created his own system of laws and patterns of system development, forecasting, solving inventive problems in business, and promoting business projects. He is involved in adapting TRIZ for information technologies and business. He created his own TRIZ training methodology designed for people of all ages and a methodology for fostering inventive thinking.
He is the author of over 30 books on TRIZ, more than 300 printed works on TRIZ, and holds 48 patents. In total, he has authored over 400 printed works.
He is the creator and leading specialist of the largest TRIZ groups on social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook.
Release Date: May 25th, 2023
No. of Pages: 211
The contribution made by the corporate sector to our economy is well documented. Everyone wants to be part of this canvas. But there are some quirks that run through all companies; and have been written about here based on personal experiences. This can be about HR practices, CEOs, Awards, communication, bosses, genuflection, conferences, gifts and even mundane things like emails and presentations. The reader will find this familiar and may just ask how the author knows about her company. The answer is that these quirks pervade the corridors and cabins of all companies. They are serious yet funny. Serious because this often happens, and funny because we need to have a sense of humour to savour the way of corporate life. These pages are to be read with a smile and taken in the right spirit because as the bard had said – all of us are actors that speak our lines and walk off the stage!
About Author
Madan Sabnavis, an accidental economist, who became one due to his inability to open other career doors, is a postgraduate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and graduated from St Stephen’s College, Delhi in Economics (Honours). He has been a corporate economist for 36 years of which 35 were in the private sector- erstwhile ICICI Limited, ICICI Bank, Larsen and Toubro, NCDEX and CARE Ratings. Experiences in these private companies provide the raw materials for this book. He is presently the Chief Economist with the Bank of Baroda. Author of five books and around 3000 articles, he has been a freelance columnist for newspapers since 1988
Release Date: May 22nd, 2023
No of Pages: 188
The essence of retail management is the process of assisting customers and consumers to be able to find and use products and services. However, with the blended advent of physical and digital retail practices, not all the sectors follow the same retail frameworks. As Muralikrishnan B, President of Xiaomi India states “That COVID-19 fundamentally changed our ways of working, presenting new opportunities as well as fresh challenges is to state the obvious”. An excellent retail strategy is important for customer retention and as per Phalgun Kompelli and Mayank Kumar, founder of Upgrad , “ businesses were forced to switch gears from offline to online and accept the ‘tech-induced-new normal’ as a way forward.” Hence the integration of retail channels started being fast tracked, that each student, faculty, and retail practitioner will understand through this new age book. As Vishal Gondal, founder and CEO of Goqii mentions “ the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of preventive healthcare and spurred a shift towards a greater focus on preventive measures thereby impacting the retail strategies.” Overall, the understanding of retail management needs to be re-invented and Venkat Malluvajhula, ANZ Head of Pitney Bowes(SendTech) elaborates that “The retail industry continues to experience significant change and disruption with shifting consumer behaviors, needs, and expectations”. Go ahead and grab this book to know the future of retail management in the Consumer Electronics, Education, Healthtech sectors. With the author’s persona experiences of 2 decades poured in the book, it would help you redefine the context and content about blending new age retail practices.
About Author
A Stanford LEAD Alumni | Author of 4 acclaimed books | An academician by choice | Three decades of experience in Global Strategy, Management & Transitions | Former CXO @ Sony, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Castrol.
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