'Draws on ingenious insights and lessons from nature to emphasize the importance of imbibing, developing, listening to and trusting your intuition - increasingly becoming a differentiator in senior circles - to develop the confidence to take that leap of faith which every risk-bearing decision entails' - Ratan Tata Managers can become like stunted plants. The absence of intuition - or its inadequate use - has the effect of constricting a manager. The Case of the Bonsai Manager is the perfect antidote for every manager who feels they are not achieving their full potential. Effective leadership is not just about hard facts but also about listening to, and using, your intuition. Using anecdotes from nature and the world of management, R. Gopalakrishnan explores how you can be more intuitive, inclusive and humane. The revised and updated edition of this best-selling book, with its easy-to-read anecdotal style, has additional material to reinforce the key messages, including a new self-help workbook. 'Exceptional . . . R. Gopalakrishnan is a formidable writer and manager' - Economic Times 'One of the most refreshing and useful books on management that I have read in many years' - Business Today

Case of the Bonsai Manager: Lessons for Managers on Intuition

Gopalakrishnan, R.

Self-Help

India Portfolio

An invaluable source of inspiration to help leaders understand themselves and overcome their barriers to success For centuries, we have learnt what's not taught through our own experiences and the stories of others. Even today, only 3 per cent of leadership development occurs due to classroom training. In fact, for most managers, 'the penny drops' only when we are at the end of our careers. In this book, R. Gopalakrishnan shares some valuable learnings from his decades of corporate experience, through a series of engaging stories. When the Penny Drops encourages you to reflect on yourself, and will help you learn by identifying the success mantras embedded in you.

When the Penny Drops: Learning What's Not Taught

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

A Biography Of Innovations: From Birth To Maturity

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The Case of the Bonsai Manager

Business & Money

Penguin/Portfolio

An invaluable source of inspiration and guidance to help leaders understand themselves and their own barriers to success For centuries, we have learned what s not taught through our own experiences and the stories of others. Even today, only 3 per cent of leadership development occurs due to classroom training and coursework. In fact, for most managers, the penny drops only when we are at the end of our careers. R. Gopalakrishnan, author of the best-selling The Case of the Bonsai Manager, has many stories to tell. With forty-three years corporate experience across countries, each story recounted here has taught him a valuable lesson in some intuitive way. Each one is narrated here for you to allow you to reflect and learn for yourself how to improve and develop. Using the framework of the Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC) and the Center for reative Leadership (CCL), Gopalakrishnan explores: * the three worlds of the manager the inner world, the world of relationships and the world of getting things done * the importance of emotional quotient (EQ) to progress as well as intelligence to get ahead in your career * the deadly personal qualities of bonsai-trapped leaders * the deadly traps for organizations When the Penny Drops: Learning What s Not Taught encourages you to reflect on yourself. It will help you learn by identifying the success mantras embedded in you and releasing the lessons that might be entrapped within yourself.

When the Penny Drops: Learning What?s Not Taught

Management & Leadership

Penguin Global

R. Gopalakrishnan, the bestselling author of The Case of the Bonsai Manager, explores how concepts turn into ideas, which then become prototypes, models and products. Defining thought as the ancestor of innovation; as without thought, there could be no innovation, he explores the impending questions such as What happens next? How can you take on challenges and keep your ideas relevant? The Biography of Innovation is the definitive book on the life cycle of new ideas and transformations.

Biography Of Innovations

While many people talk about the path to the top of organizations, very few are honest about how difficult it is to stay at that position. R. Gopalakrishnan analyses the 'software' challenges, which leaders confront every day, and shares the insights he has gained developing, managing, investing in and supervising a variety of companies. The author shows that great leaders continue to excel not just because of their skills and intelligence but also by connecting with others using emotional competencies like empathy and self-awareness. Filled with anecdotes, analysis of various situations CEOs may find themselves in and unconventional advice to help them, Crash: Lessons from the Entry and Exit of CEOs is for veteran leaders as well as for those who aspire to start their own ventures.

Crash

Literature & Fiction

The North-East India: Land, Economy and People

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Vikas Pub

There are many books on leadership. What the CEO Really Wants from You is one of the few to address the question that is uppermost in the mind of any manager: What he should be doing to make his or her boss his partner rather than his opponent. We spend most of our lives at work or thinking about it. Starting from a young age, fired by boundless energy and optimism, we launch into our careers sure of our abilities. Yet, things do not always turn out as we expect they would. It is not our abilities alone. The business environment is one of change and ambiguity. It is no easy task for any manager to negotiate the journey to success. As Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, points out in his foreword, partnerships with others, but above all with your direct boss and organization, are more important than ever before. Not only that, a good boss has an instinct for the right people, and getting them to do better. A good manager, by eliciting his help, helps himself. Few people are better qualified to guide on this journey than R. Gopalakrishnan. He brings forty-five years of experience to this subject in some of the most challenging jobs. In this immensely practical book informed by the wisdom he has gleaned over the years, he offers the reader the benefit of all he has learnt, summarized in the four As - Accomplishment, Affability, Advocacy and Authenticity. This is a book that will be of immense use to any manager, and one that just might bring him the answers it takes years to find - what the CEO really expects from him. You can also buy from Online stores: Buy from a nearby bookstore- Flipkart.com Reliance Timeout Homeshop18.com DC books Infibeam.com Crossword Bookstore Uread.com Landmark Bookstore Indiaplaza.com Om Book Shop Starmark Bookstore Sapna Bookstore Full Circle Bookstore Bahri Sons Bookstore Teksons Bookstore Sankars Bookstore

What The Ceo Really Wants From You : The 4As For Managerial Success

Harpercollins

There are many books on leadership.What the CEO Really Wants from You is one of the few to address the question that is uppermost in the mind of any manager:What someone should be doing to make his or her boss a partner rather than an opponent.R. Gopalakrishnan brings over forty-five years of experience to this subject in some of the most challenging jobs.In this extremely practical book informed by the wisdom he has gleaned over the years, he offers the reader the benefit of all he has learnt, summarized in the four As Accomplishment,Affability, Advocacy and Authenticity. This is a book that will be of immense use to any manager, and one that just might bring the answers it takes years to find: what the CEO really expects from you.

What the CEO Really Wants From You

Collins

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