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The teachings of The Buddha, can with the correct interpretation be a game-changer. They enable healing, improvement and transformation not only for ourselves but our world and reality as well. There are ways to attract fewer problems, less negative people, less negative outcomes and thereby less negative emotions. There are instead ways to attract better people, better places, better work and better outcomes leading to more positive emotions. One can take charge and control of life. The extra-ordinary wisdom of The Buddha is presented in terms of three key strategies which when implemented lead to our spiritual innovation. We become wiser, release our great potential, create new possibilities and lead ourselves to better work, a better life and a better destiny.

Taking India by storm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been one of the most talked about figures all around the world. His enigmatic persona and his forceful leadership have created a polarized world where some idolize him, while others question his motives and methods. In an attempt to break the myths around who Narendra Modi really is, the author attempts to take us through a journey of the leader''s life, his political aspirations, his growth within the party, his remarkable stint in Gujarat and his performance over the last two years in Delhi. The author identifies the many formidable challenges Modi faces as the leader of the world''s largest democracy that is in the midst of a complex transition and recommends measures that Modi must implement to deliver on his promises, thereby enabling India to realize its true potential.

For the young English educated Indian, from the big cities to the small towns, across gender and across all classes, India''s BPO boom changed their lives. They found themselves in the throes of an industry that matched their energy and insatiable hunger for action. Satindra Sen who was part of the team that set up one of the country''s first offshoring ventures writes an engaging tale tinged with sharp humour and piercing insight of how things were and how they turned out to be.

Passion, purpose, potential, perseverance are the qualities required to make great achievers and leaders. This book tells you how to ┬╖ turn people into leaders ┬╖ build trust and confidence ┬╖ make you reach your destiny ┬╖ transform your organization

Books on management and organizations usually ignore the human factor. This unorthodox book marks a radical departure in how organizations should be understood. It deals with human issues and relationships between groups. Though serious, it makes for easy reading and is written with humour. How Organizations Really Work is the perfect companion for an employee at any level; for those who want to step back and look objectively at what''s happening around them and make sense of it. It is also for management students accustomed to impractical diets of theory. Exclusive mind-maps at the end of each chapter help the reader make connections between the concepts discussed and entities, while the wildly funny stories provide a much-needed welcome break. Beginning with the reasons why organizations exist, the author examines how authority flows down from the board to everyone else. Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Finance, Information Systems and Operations are examined first theoretically and then through the eyes of a practitioner who knows where theory falls short.

Understanding leadership is really about understanding life, and this starts with gaining an understanding of the self. Traditional management approaches, based on ''scientific'' analysis, cannot contribute much towards understanding leadership. This book shows how leadership can be better understood by reading and interpreting masterpieces of world literature, and relating them to leadership issues. The book starts with Cervantes'' masterpiece Don Quixote, whose main character asserts, ''I know who I am'', and believes in himself. This is followed by other works to highlight important issues: ambition and purpose in Chinua Achebe''s Things Fall Apart, faith vs. reason in Bertolt Brecht''s The Life of Galileo, awakening the human spirit in Bernard Shaw''s Saint Joan, authenticity in Girish Karnad''s Tughlaq, and the old Sanskrit play Mudra Rakshasa by Visakhadatta, leaders and society in Arthur Miller''s All My Sons, the role of illusions in Ibsen''s The Wild Duck, taking a stand in A Dolls'' House, the epic Mahabharata for development of perspective, and Herman Hesse''s Siddhartha for understanding the process of self-development and realisation of one''s potential. Based on the experience of the authors teaching a course on leadership for the last 20 years at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this is an enlightening and illuminating read for both academicians and corporate leaders.

Ahmedabad is India''s seventh largest city--a six-hundred-year-old former textile town where Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule--and a hotbed for communal violence. The city is known today for being Prime Minister Narendra Modi''s stronghold, the model for a new, market-led vision of development and a harbinger of the changes sweeping through the new India.In this intimate biography, Amrita Shah travels through time and a landscape of abandoned mills and urban beautification projects, stone monuments, and modernist architecture. She visits neighborhoods divided by sectarian violence and ghettos born on the outskirts of the city. Among the many people she meets are a young embroiderer from Asarwa-Chamanpura, the architect of the Riverfront project, a poet turned civil servant, a popular singing duo, and a well-heeled socialite.This is the story of road maps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants; of Dalit laborers and female bootleggers, displaced Muslims, and a euphoric middle class. It is also the incredible story of hope and vulnerability at the heart of a metropolis.Searing, illuminating, and beautifully written, Ahmedabad: A City in the World is essential reading for an insight into contemporary India.

Arabs Unseen explores the enlightening journeys of 10 exemplary figures from the modern Arab world. It embraces the theme of drawing inspiration from these individuals who overcame various challenges to build a body of work in their respective fields. Their experiences are significant for all generations within the Arab world and beyond.