What the CEO Really Wants from you by R Gopalakrishnan

In this crisp must read book, Gopalakrishnan presents the four A's to succeed as a manager. Drawing from his rich experience of almost five decades in the corporate world serving conglomerates Unilever and the Tata Group, RG in his simple story telling style makes this book an engrossing learningful experience...

What makes an Effective Executive?

An effective executive focuses on contribution. He looks up from his work and outward towards his goals. He asks: “What can I contribute that will significantly impact the performance and the results of the institution I serve?” His stress is on responsibility...

The Art of Framing

The Art of Framing treats leaders as managers of the meanings of their worlds. Here is a book that is all about the skill of framing a quality communication which can persuade others to accept one meaning over another. It is a skill with profound consequences for behaviour that influences how everyone responds to the world in which we live...

Lateral Leadership

Negotiation master, Roger Fisher has done “an encore” Lateral leadership is a simple, practical definitive guide to getting results when you have to work with others. Fisher and Sharp have described step by step methodology to build up the portfolio of leadership skills you require if you want to get the best of others.at any level...

Integrity

A quick look around us reveals – Enhanced lifestyles, a stronger craving for new things, signs of prosperity, a sense of urgency in everything and so on. It is enveloping perhaps every individual and it is not surprising that everyone wants to be successful in double quick time...
What Makes a Great Leader

What Makes a Great Leader?

It is time to pause and reflect again on what makes a Leader. The profile of the leader looks as Selflessness, Genuineness, Vulnerability, Integrity and handling Ambiguity. I am keen to know how many of you reflected on the above and what was the effect. As somebody says it very beautifully “real learning takes place only after we know it all”...

Leadership is an art

If you think leadership has very little to do with poetry and philosophy, think again, De Pree’s thoughts and messages are gentle raindrops cascading softly into depths of the soul - sheer poetry, each drop breathing truth and beauty...

Leadership through enduring values

What makes a Leader? The concept of leadership has been in existence from perhaps time immemorial, whether it is political, social or business...

What it takes to reach the top

This is a list of 7 key qualities that help an individual to reach the top in an organisation, originally published in 1981. Clearly, what it takes to become an effective leader and rise rapidly, doesn’t seem to have changed in more than 40 years…