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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalDr. C. Bhaktavatsala Rao received his Ph.D. Degree in Industrial Management and M. Tech. Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He received his B.E. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. Dr. C. B. Rao has over forty-nine years of diversified experience in strategic and operational leadership of large, reputed companies, including global multinational corporations, in India. Dr. C. B. Rao’s last formal assignment was as Managing Director/Executive Chairman of Hospira Healthcare India Pvt Limited, a PfizeRead More...
Dr. C. Bhaktavatsala Rao received his Ph.D. Degree in Industrial Management and M. Tech. Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He received his B.E. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati.
Dr. C. B. Rao has over forty-nine years of diversified experience in strategic and operational leadership of large, reputed companies, including global multinational corporations, in India. Dr. C. B. Rao’s last formal assignment was as Managing Director/Executive Chairman of Hospira Healthcare India Pvt Limited, a Pfizer Company. Dr. Rao is a prolific writer with several publications in economic and business dailies and refereed journals. Dr Rao is the founder of LeaderCrest Academy. This book is the fifteenth in the series of books authored and published by Dr. Rao under his LeaderCrest Banner over the last Six years.
Dr C. B. Rao serves as Ajit Singhvi Chair Professor in the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He is non-executive director on the boards of select companies. He also serves as adviser to global corporations
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This book covers certain legendary leaders from different domains and from different walks of life. Each legendary leader offers valuable leadership lessons. This book brings out insights which classic leadership writings do not usually bring out. Covering the leaders’ lives and role modelling, the book comes up with several novel leadership constructs. This book will be relevant to all students, academicians, and practitioners of management and leadership i
This book covers certain legendary leaders from different domains and from different walks of life. Each legendary leader offers valuable leadership lessons. This book brings out insights which classic leadership writings do not usually bring out. Covering the leaders’ lives and role modelling, the book comes up with several novel leadership constructs. This book will be relevant to all students, academicians, and practitioners of management and leadership in any walk of life.
Strategic management of companies and organisational entities is not merely about the long-term – it is also about having a holistic and end-to-end perspective. The practice of strategic management goes beyond conceptual and analytical development of strategies and execution thereof. It has deep behavioural and philosophical undertones as well.
This book, Strategic Management: Practice and Philosophy for India Inc, brings together multiple conc
Strategic management of companies and organisational entities is not merely about the long-term – it is also about having a holistic and end-to-end perspective. The practice of strategic management goes beyond conceptual and analytical development of strategies and execution thereof. It has deep behavioural and philosophical undertones as well.
This book, Strategic Management: Practice and Philosophy for India Inc, brings together multiple concepts of competitive strategy and strategic leadership of companies and organisational entities into one volume. It reflects the author’s rich and diversified experience covering the last forty-six years of operational and strategic leadership roles in Indian and multi-national companies across multiple industries.
The book will be useful for executives, managers and leaders as well as management students. The book will provide several additional insights and constructs for academicians engaged in management teaching and research.
Product strategy is the key driver of business strategy and corporate success. This book brings out several important aspects of product strategy, drawing upon examples from the Indian automobile industry, which is verily the bellwether of the Indian economy.
The automobile industry is not only a strategic industry economically but also an instructive industry intellectually. The industry is the cradle of modern management and is a synthesis of various
Product strategy is the key driver of business strategy and corporate success. This book brings out several important aspects of product strategy, drawing upon examples from the Indian automobile industry, which is verily the bellwether of the Indian economy.
The automobile industry is not only a strategic industry economically but also an instructive industry intellectually. The industry is the cradle of modern management and is a synthesis of various functional strategies.
The growth of the automobile industry or, for that matter, any consumer-facing industry lies in its ability to maintain a continuous pipeline of new and innovative products, substantive in functionality and stylistic in appearance. The automobile industry provides the perfect backdrop for discussing products as the core of the corporate business strategy.
The global automobile industry, including the Indian automobile industry, is at an inflection point with portends of an unprecedented transformation. The drivers of this transformation are already seen in terms of connected vehicles, autonomous mobility, electric vehicles and digital technologies.
The book, through its eighty chapters, demonstrates the synergistic interplay between technology and business, strategy and execution, innovation and inventiveness, enterprise and regulation, indigenization and globalization, structure and process, resourcing and spend, and leadership and management. This interplay would determine India’s ability to become a major player in this transformation.
This book will be of interest to industry professionals, policy makers, the academic community and the general public.
Every organization is like a delicate ecosystem. It needs to be nurtured with care and concern just as a natural ecosystem is ecologically nurtured. For this, organizational behavior is the instrument. Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings including the interface of human beings among themselves, the interface of human beings with their and other external organizations, and the behavior of organizations with respect
Every organization is like a delicate ecosystem. It needs to be nurtured with care and concern just as a natural ecosystem is ecologically nurtured. For this, organizational behavior is the instrument. Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings including the interface of human beings among themselves, the interface of human beings with their and other external organizations, and the behavior of organizations with respect to individuals and other organizations.
Individual behavior is an integral part of organizational behavior. As individuals and organizations devote the needed attention to the subject, the challenging issue of work–life balance is resolved. This major work on organizational behavior, with its ninety chapters, is divided into fifteen sections, each of which deals with a specific theme relating to factors impacting and is impacted by organizational behavior. This book provides multiple constructs that facilitate optimal work–life balance.
This book will serve as a companion text for students and faculty specializing in organizational behavior and general management. Academicians, industry managers, and leaders as well as administrators and policy makers will find this book a useful thought-primer and guide for effective organizational management. More importantly, the several propositions made in the book would help individuals and institutions achieve competitive strength, emotional stability, and self-actualization through optimal work–life balance.
Economics is a social science concerned mainly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Beyond the various theories and models, however, economics has close relationship with day to day life. This book reviews the economic journey of India over the last seventy years, and seeks to stimulate the readers’ thinking on some major issues and potentialities facing the Indian economy.
Five main the
Economics is a social science concerned mainly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Beyond the various theories and models, however, economics has close relationship with day to day life. This book reviews the economic journey of India over the last seventy years, and seeks to stimulate the readers’ thinking on some major issues and potentialities facing the Indian economy.
Five main themes flow through the book – India’s potential to be the World’s third largest economic power by 2030, the challenges of socio-economic equity that India faces, the several opportunities that India has in that journey, the critical role of governance, leadership, management and administration, and the importance of mindset changes to power India’s future economic growth. A special focus is laid on the role of government policies and projects in socio-economic development.
The book sensitises the readers, including college students in general, and students of economics in particular, to the happenings around us which have significant economic import. The book makes all through its seventy chapters several suggestions to power India’s growth as a global economic superpower, on a plank of socioeconomic equity. This book serves as an expansive thought primer and focussed execution guide for an economically independent and resurgent India.
This book, titled “Viksit Bharat 2047: Infrastructure. Innovation. Inclusion.” reviews how India has progressed to a globally recognized and respected position over the last ten years, more specifically over the last five years. The key highlight of the book is an espousal of how India is poised to transform itself as Viksit Bharat by 2047, India’s 100th year of independence. The book presents, in brief, certain success stories in various economic, indus
This book, titled “Viksit Bharat 2047: Infrastructure. Innovation. Inclusion.” reviews how India has progressed to a globally recognized and respected position over the last ten years, more specifically over the last five years. The key highlight of the book is an espousal of how India is poised to transform itself as Viksit Bharat by 2047, India’s 100th year of independence. The book presents, in brief, certain success stories in various economic, industrial, and social sectors that India has notched up over these years. It also presents a few futuristic transformational pathways. This demonstrates, in a compelling manner, how effective public policy and governance has caused a paradigm shift in how India has started viewing itself and how the world has started viewing India. India’s future is likely to be dramatically more elevated than even staunch India optimists may imagine. The key is an impactful combination of visionary goal setting, objective self-belief, and competency building. This book will inspire policy makers, academicians, business leaders, students and public to believe in and work for Viksit Bharat.
India is today poised to be third largest economy globally by 2028. India is also now passionate about building new industrial sinews in sunrise sectors such as renewables, semiconductors, sensors, electric batteries, electronics and several other such domains.
This book presents important perspectives covering the broad topic of India as Knowledge Society. The book has 22 chapters which are divided into two sections – Institutional Perspectives and
India is today poised to be third largest economy globally by 2028. India is also now passionate about building new industrial sinews in sunrise sectors such as renewables, semiconductors, sensors, electric batteries, electronics and several other such domains.
This book presents important perspectives covering the broad topic of India as Knowledge Society. The book has 22 chapters which are divided into two sections – Institutional Perspectives and Enterprise Perspectives.
The book will be of interest to academicians, students, administrators, policy makers and professionals. As India becomes a knowledge society with multiple initiatives as discussed in this book, India would further reinforce its global economic standing.
Organizations must have self-awareness, and an appreciation of what they can accomplish in the face of competitive and environmental factors. An awareness of what the entity is and what it can be is the key to embarking on a journey of organizational progress. This book titled ‘Organizational Mastery: Competence–Behaviour Frameworks’ aims to lead the readers on a journey of organizational mastery.
Organizational mastery is not a matter of only c
Organizations must have self-awareness, and an appreciation of what they can accomplish in the face of competitive and environmental factors. An awareness of what the entity is and what it can be is the key to embarking on a journey of organizational progress. This book titled ‘Organizational Mastery: Competence–Behaviour Frameworks’ aims to lead the readers on a journey of organizational mastery.
Organizational mastery is not a matter of only competitive success or filling the organization with high talent of education and experience. It is a matter of getting the individual members of an organization, whether ordinary or extraordinary, collectively supercharge the aspirations and accomplishments of an organization. Organizational mastery involves building strong competencies and positive behaviours in all its members and translating them collectively and synergistically to organizational competencies and behaviours. This book presents multiple frameworks to achieve organizational mastery.
This book will be of interest to students, faculty, industry professionals and administrators.
Every individual has characteristics that comprise capabilities, aptitudes, attitudes, emotions, and aspirations, among others. These characteristics continuously evolve in a person. These, in a sense, are expressions of the energy of a person. Only when these are developed in a positive manner, with mutual alignment, would an individual feel fulfilled. Given that every individual is a part of multiple ecosystems, from the family to the organization, each with
Every individual has characteristics that comprise capabilities, aptitudes, attitudes, emotions, and aspirations, among others. These characteristics continuously evolve in a person. These, in a sense, are expressions of the energy of a person. Only when these are developed in a positive manner, with mutual alignment, would an individual feel fulfilled. Given that every individual is a part of multiple ecosystems, from the family to the organization, each with its own changing dynamics, the fulfilment does not come easy. Personal mastery helps a person achieve that fulfilment.
This book titled ‘Personal Mastery: Competence–Behaviour Frameworks’, with its thirty insightful chapters, aims to lead the readers on a journey of personal mastery. Life provides to an individual as many opportunities as challenges. Personal mastery involves setting and achieving high standards of performance, with positive contributions to the family, the organization, and the society. The journey is a journey of introspection, reflection, and betterment. It involves self-awareness, self-motivation, self-discipline, self-confidence, and self-control, besides inter-personal relationships. Personal mastery involves building strong competencies and positive behaviours. This book presents multiple frameworks to achieve personal mastery.
Strategic marketing is the extended domain of marketing that deploys a mix of marketing and strategic approaches for the firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
This book titled “Strategic Marketing: Cases and Concepts from the Indian Business” is a practical exposition of the domain of strategic marketing with practical case studies from the Indian business over the last few decades.
The book provides a fusion of academic framewor
Strategic marketing is the extended domain of marketing that deploys a mix of marketing and strategic approaches for the firm to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.
This book titled “Strategic Marketing: Cases and Concepts from the Indian Business” is a practical exposition of the domain of strategic marketing with practical case studies from the Indian business over the last few decades.
The book provides a fusion of academic frameworks and practical constructs, and sketches out multiple principles of strategic management that can be deployed in different industries. The book comprising, thirty chapters, is divided into four sections.
With its comprehensive and in-depth coverage, this book should be of interest to students, academicians, and professionals interested in strategy, marketing, and business growth.
The Dharma of the typical Indian citizen is to move into the globalised and networked future while being rooted to the richness and orderliness of the Indian culture. The Indian social ecosystem offers several principles of management. This book, titled Dharmic Management offers multiple insights on management from the Indian social ecosystem. This book is written to trigger a collaboration between cultural scholars and management experts to expand and enric
The Dharma of the typical Indian citizen is to move into the globalised and networked future while being rooted to the richness and orderliness of the Indian culture. The Indian social ecosystem offers several principles of management. This book, titled Dharmic Management offers multiple insights on management from the Indian social ecosystem. This book is written to trigger a collaboration between cultural scholars and management experts to expand and enrich the domain of Dharmic Management.
This book covers certain legendary leaders from different domains and from different walks of life. Each legendary leader offers valuable leadership lessons. This book brings out insights which classic leadership writings do not usually bring out. Covering the leaders’ lives and role modelling, the book comes up with several novel leadership constructs. This book will be relevant to all students, academicians, and practitioners of management and leadership i
This book covers certain legendary leaders from different domains and from different walks of life. Each legendary leader offers valuable leadership lessons. This book brings out insights which classic leadership writings do not usually bring out. Covering the leaders’ lives and role modelling, the book comes up with several novel leadership constructs. This book will be relevant to all students, academicians, and practitioners of management and leadership in any walk of life.
This book, STEM, brings together in a unique integrative framework, the domains of Strategy, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management. It presents the practice of STEM for the development of firms and industries. This book has four sections devoted to the four domains. The sections are independent yet interconnected.
The four sections together provide multiple concepts and constructs for understanding industry structure and formulating competitive
This book, STEM, brings together in a unique integrative framework, the domains of Strategy, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management. It presents the practice of STEM for the development of firms and industries. This book has four sections devoted to the four domains. The sections are independent yet interconnected.
The four sections together provide multiple concepts and constructs for understanding industry structure and formulating competitive strategy for diverse categories of firms, businesses, and industries, with a strong bias towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking. The book would be useful for students as well as working professionals, besides academicians, business leaders and public administrators, enabling them to play the roles of their choice in industrial and economic development.
Strategic management of companies and organisational entities is not merely about the long-term – it is also about having a holistic and end-to-end perspective. The practice of strategic management goes beyond conceptual and analytical development of strategies and execution thereof. It has deep behavioural and philosophical undertones as well.
This book, Strategic Management: Practice and Philosophy for India Inc, brings together multiple conc
Strategic management of companies and organisational entities is not merely about the long-term – it is also about having a holistic and end-to-end perspective. The practice of strategic management goes beyond conceptual and analytical development of strategies and execution thereof. It has deep behavioural and philosophical undertones as well.
This book, Strategic Management: Practice and Philosophy for India Inc, brings together multiple concepts of competitive strategy and strategic leadership of companies and organisational entities into one volume. It reflects the author’s rich and diversified experience covering the last forty-six years of operational and strategic leadership roles in Indian and multi-national companies across multiple industries.
The book will be useful for executives, managers and leaders as well as management students. The book will provide several additional insights and constructs for academicians engaged in management teaching and research.
Product strategy is the key driver of business strategy and corporate success. This book brings out several important aspects of product strategy, drawing upon examples from the Indian automobile industry, which is verily the bellwether of the Indian economy.
The automobile industry is not only a strategic industry economically but also an instructive industry intellectually. The industry is the cradle of modern management and is a synthesis of various
Product strategy is the key driver of business strategy and corporate success. This book brings out several important aspects of product strategy, drawing upon examples from the Indian automobile industry, which is verily the bellwether of the Indian economy.
The automobile industry is not only a strategic industry economically but also an instructive industry intellectually. The industry is the cradle of modern management and is a synthesis of various functional strategies.
The growth of the automobile industry or, for that matter, any consumer-facing industry lies in its ability to maintain a continuous pipeline of new and innovative products, substantive in functionality and stylistic in appearance. The automobile industry provides the perfect backdrop for discussing products as the core of the corporate business strategy.
The global automobile industry, including the Indian automobile industry, is at an inflection point with portends of an unprecedented transformation. The drivers of this transformation are already seen in terms of connected vehicles, autonomous mobility, electric vehicles and digital technologies.
The book, through its eighty chapters, demonstrates the synergistic interplay between technology and business, strategy and execution, innovation and inventiveness, enterprise and regulation, indigenization and globalization, structure and process, resourcing and spend, and leadership and management. This interplay would determine India’s ability to become a major player in this transformation.
This book will be of interest to industry professionals, policy makers, the academic community and the general public.
Every organization is like a delicate ecosystem. It needs to be nurtured with care and concern just as a natural ecosystem is ecologically nurtured. For this, organizational behavior is the instrument. Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings including the interface of human beings among themselves, the interface of human beings with their and other external organizations, and the behavior of organizations with respect
Every organization is like a delicate ecosystem. It needs to be nurtured with care and concern just as a natural ecosystem is ecologically nurtured. For this, organizational behavior is the instrument. Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in organizational settings including the interface of human beings among themselves, the interface of human beings with their and other external organizations, and the behavior of organizations with respect to individuals and other organizations.
Individual behavior is an integral part of organizational behavior. As individuals and organizations devote the needed attention to the subject, the challenging issue of work–life balance is resolved. This major work on organizational behavior, with its ninety chapters, is divided into fifteen sections, each of which deals with a specific theme relating to factors impacting and is impacted by organizational behavior. This book provides multiple constructs that facilitate optimal work–life balance.
This book will serve as a companion text for students and faculty specializing in organizational behavior and general management. Academicians, industry managers, and leaders as well as administrators and policy makers will find this book a useful thought-primer and guide for effective organizational management. More importantly, the several propositions made in the book would help individuals and institutions achieve competitive strength, emotional stability, and self-actualization through optimal work–life balance.
Economics is a social science concerned mainly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Beyond the various theories and models, however, economics has close relationship with day to day life. This book reviews the economic journey of India over the last seventy years, and seeks to stimulate the readers’ thinking on some major issues and potentialities facing the Indian economy.
Five main the
Economics is a social science concerned mainly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Beyond the various theories and models, however, economics has close relationship with day to day life. This book reviews the economic journey of India over the last seventy years, and seeks to stimulate the readers’ thinking on some major issues and potentialities facing the Indian economy.
Five main themes flow through the book – India’s potential to be the World’s third largest economic power by 2030, the challenges of socio-economic equity that India faces, the several opportunities that India has in that journey, the critical role of governance, leadership, management and administration, and the importance of mindset changes to power India’s future economic growth. A special focus is laid on the role of government policies and projects in socio-economic development.
The book sensitises the readers, including college students in general, and students of economics in particular, to the happenings around us which have significant economic import. The book makes all through its seventy chapters several suggestions to power India’s growth as a global economic superpower, on a plank of socioeconomic equity. This book serves as an expansive thought primer and focussed execution guide for an economically independent and resurgent India.
From Start-up to Ramp-up: Indian Context and Global Insights, published in July 2016, made a well-nuanced contribution to the much talked about domain of entrepreneurship. This book, India as Global Start-up Hub: Mission with Passion, is a significantly more detailed and insightful analysis of the multiple facets of start-up entrepreneurship in an integrative framework.
The book unravels in its thirteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian c
From Start-up to Ramp-up: Indian Context and Global Insights, published in July 2016, made a well-nuanced contribution to the much talked about domain of entrepreneurship. This book, India as Global Start-up Hub: Mission with Passion, is a significantly more detailed and insightful analysis of the multiple facets of start-up entrepreneurship in an integrative framework.
The book unravels in its thirteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian contextual realities and potentialities with global perspectives relevant for India to become a global start-up hub. The book also features twelve case studies that illustrate how founders conceptualised and grew their start-up ideas into successful and sustainable businesses in India.
Through Chapter 14 reserved for the readers, the book encourages the readers to think, express and act on their own ideas, proposals and plans for reinforcing the Indian start-up ecosystem and even to turn into entrepreneurs and start-up founders themselves.
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. Professor Michael Porter’s treatise, formulated in 1980, remains the only integrated work on the subject to date. While its core concepts endure, it requires the holistic incorporation of additional insights and prescriptions, based on current and future trends.
This book reviews Porter’s work in the context of the global economic forces and rapid technological change
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. Professor Michael Porter’s treatise, formulated in 1980, remains the only integrated work on the subject to date. While its core concepts endure, it requires the holistic incorporation of additional insights and prescriptions, based on current and future trends.
This book reviews Porter’s work in the context of the global economic forces and rapid technological changes that have affected businesses and their strategies from the mid-2000s. It focuses on select aspects of competitive strategy particularly affected by such forces and develops several novel constructs to strengthen and expand the core analytical framework of competitive strategy with a futuristic perspective. The book embeds the impact of technology throughout but recognises that a more focused and detailed analysis of the same has been presented in the author’s recent companion work, Technology and Competitive Strategy: Perspectives for Innovators, Differentiators and Followers.
Each of the book’s chapters is dedicated to a unique facet of competitive strategy, with novel hypotheses and constructs supported by multiple real-life examples. The book will inspire professionals, business leaders, academicians and public policy makers involved in strategy and growth to appreciate issues and solutions in a broader and a more contemporaneous industrial and economic context.
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. There has, however, been no book that expounds holistically the key role of technology in shaping and influencing competitive strategy. This book is an insightful analysis of the several ways in which technology drives competitive strategy. The book’s unique contributions lie in the classification of firms based on the concept of technology pyramid and articulation of charact
Competitive Strategy is a key driver of industrial growth and economic development. There has, however, been no book that expounds holistically the key role of technology in shaping and influencing competitive strategy. This book is an insightful analysis of the several ways in which technology drives competitive strategy. The book’s unique contributions lie in the classification of firms based on the concept of technology pyramid and articulation of characteristic strategies of innovators, differentiators and followers.
The book develops a distinctive five forces model of technology and proposes three generic technology competitive strategies. It also focuses on the linkages between strategy, technology and regulation. Multiple themes are weaved together by the myriad threads of technology in a seamless and simple manner. It is loaded with innumerable real life examples which validate the constructs. The book would inspire technologists and strategists as well as academicians and administrators to deploy technology not only for competitive advantage at firm level but also for national comparative advantage and broader socio-economic equity.
Entrepreneurship is much talked and written about in popular forums but there is no book that covers the subject in its varied and deep hues. This book is an insightful analysis of what entrepreneurship means and entails and how entrepreneurial ventures are built and grown in a sustainable manner, unravelling in its fourteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian contextual realities and potentialities in global perspectives. It is loaded with sever
Entrepreneurship is much talked and written about in popular forums but there is no book that covers the subject in its varied and deep hues. This book is an insightful analysis of what entrepreneurship means and entails and how entrepreneurial ventures are built and grown in a sustainable manner, unravelling in its fourteen chapters a unique and phased discussion of Indian contextual realities and potentialities in global perspectives. It is loaded with several real life examples which are leveraged to develop constructs that aspiring entrepreneurs and start-up founders would find invaluable. The book brings out intricate facets of setting up and growing start-up and entrepreneurial ventures, and fills a major gap in the study and research of this domain.
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