Management from the Masters – From Kautilya to Warren Buffett

by Morgen Witzel | Penguin Books India, 2013 Every successful manager knows that there are immutable laws that impact almost every aspect of management. This slim volume collects together the…

Predatory Thinking: A Master class in Out-Thinking the Competition

by Dave Trott | Macmillan, 2013 Powerful strategies for how to out-think the competition — from one of the true greats of the advertising world two explorers are walking through…

An Uncertain Glory – India and its Contradictions

by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen | Penguin Books India, 2013 Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth is an important and achievable goal for India. In An Uncertain Glory,…

CMOs are the New Strategic Technology Buyers

by Christopher Andrews, analyst at Forrester I am just back from the whirlwind that is Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2013 in Mumbai, India. The Nasscom event is the premier event…

From BPO to BPM

The business process management (BPM) market has grown manifold over the last decade. The sector earned US$ 18 billion in revenue in 2012-13 and National Association of Software and Services…

Indian Leaders are short on Emotional Intelligence

John Knights finds Indian leaders to be on par or even better than many global leaders in most aspects of leadership, yet, there’s something amiss which make them behave the…

Infosys takes big strides and has numbers to prove

It appears sustainability has got into Infosys’ skin. What it is embarking on is serious stuff and is driven by its belief that sustainability focus results in innovation. Rohan Parikh,…

Preparing Business-Ready Finance Managers

Arati Porwal, Chief Representative, CIMA India, extrapolates the critical role management accountants are beginning to play. Today’s global economy calls for a paradigm shift in the role of the accounting…