New Books released

Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last  RS 399 OFFER RS 350

In business, the right behaviors matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the way, upsetting even the best-laid plans. And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rational among us into behaving in ways we would rather forget? Triggers confronts head-on the challenges of behavior and change, looking at the external factors (Or ';triggers';) - both negative and positive - that affect our behaviors, our awareness of when we need to change, our willingness (Or otherwise) to do so and our ability to see the change through. Drawing on his unparalleled experience as an international executive educator and coach, Marshall Goldsmith invites us to understand how our own beliefs and the environments in which we operate can trigger negative behaviors, or a resistance to the need to change. But he also offers up some simple, practical advice to help us navigate the negative and make the most of the triggers that will help us to sustain positive change.

Subhas: A Political Biography  Price: Rs. 500  OFFER RS 450

Subhas Chandra Bose is one of India’s most controversial leaders. He was one of the few Indian leaders to attempt to win freedom by force, and was a constant thorn in the side of the British, as well as Mahatma Gandhi. A revolutionary in every sense of the word, Bose spent his life haunted by a call of duty and would meet his death in attempting to answer that call in his own indomitable way. Subhas: A Political Biography explores the ideology and politics of a passionate intellect who sacrificed everything in his effort to win freedom for his country at any cost.

100 Great Lives  Price: Rs. 395  OFFER RS 370

100 Great Lives is a collection of one hundred short biographies of people who have left their mark on Indian history in different ways. The lives of writers, artists, scientists, social reformers, educationists, politicians, freedom fighters and even several British people are included in this volume which is a moving tribute to all those who played a part in making India what she is.

Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)  Harvard Business Review  RS 195  OFFER RS 180

Don’t leave creativity up to the “creatives” in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to: 

• Create the right environment for inventive thinking

• Build a diverse team

• Generate a wide array of new ideas

• Manage disagreements

• Make sure your ideas actually get implemented

Performance Reviews (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) 

 Harvard Business Review  RS 195 OFFER RS 180

Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees’ development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics. 

You’ll learn to:

• Gather and analyze the right information

• Document your assessment

• Address performance problems

• Set challenging goals

HBR';s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence  

(With featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by DanielGoleman) 

By: Harvard Business Review RS 750 OFFER RS 650

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership.

If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you boost your emotional skills—and your professional success.

This book will inspire you to:

• Monitor and channel your moods and emotions.

• Make smart, empathetic people decisions.

• Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team.

• React to tough situations with resilience.

• Better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals.

• Develop emotional agility.

Disrupting Digital Business

Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Econ

By: R "Ray" Wang  RS 895  OFFER RS 800

Companies succeeding in the digital era have done so not just because of their technology but also because of their understanding of what it takes to build an organization in a digital age. From building a culture of digital DNA to an understanding of what’s required to succeed in new business models. Given we no longer sell products or deliver on services, the world of digital requires us to focus on experiences and outcomes. We move from selling products to keeping brand promises.

Organizations usually react to change by denying, delaying, and disparaging. But that’s a recipe for failure. As with past transformations, organizations must prepare to move ahead of these social, organizational, and technology shifts or be left behind as digital business disruption becomes a necessity. Ray Wang provides a different approach—at once, insightful and practical. By observing the march of technological progress over the past few decades, Wang analyzes the trends that businesses must pay attention and how they should react to them. Those trends, when taken seriously, require a new way of  

thinking about business. 

Unbound : 2000 Years of Indian Women';s Writing Price: Rs.595 offer rs 500

Profound, exhilarating, haunting, angry and meditative, Unbound is a collection that will shatter stereotypes about women';s writing in India.

Unbound is a collection of some of the most significant writing by Indian women over the past two thousand years. Divided into eleven sections, it encompasses writing on various aspects of life-spirituality, love, marriage, children, food, work, social and individual identity, battles, myths and fables, travel and death. While many of the pieces are commentaries on the struggle that women undergo to overcome obstacles - social and political - all of them showcase the remarkable creative ability of their creators. The term women';s writing has often been used to limit and stereotype the work of women writers. But it also has a larger and more constructive meaning and that is the sense in which it has been used to inform and describe the context of the book. As Annie Zaidi explains in her introduction - women bring to their writing the truth of their bodies and an enquiry into the different ways in which gender inequity shapes human experience.

The Off Switch  Price: Rs. 599 offer rs 500

At a time when we are paying a heavy price for the collective delusion that being plugged in 24/7 is an express elevator to the top, The Off Switch reminds us that there is an alternative. Mark Cropley shows that intentionally switching off from work is not only essential for our well-being, it also allows for the unwinding and renewal that help us perform at our best when we switch back on.

Leading Price: Rs. 799 offer rs 600

In this revelatory new book, Sir Alex Ferguson dissects his 38 record-breaking years of management - first in Scotland and then, of course, at Manchester United - to reveal the key tools he used to deliver sustained success on and off the field. From tactics to teamwork, from hiring to firing, from dealing with the boardroom to responding to failure, LEADING investigates the pivotal leadership decisions of an astonishing career.