Leaders, who only live in the present and respond to its special pressures and demands, would fail to achieve quality of leadership and the change required in the future. In today's digital age of the millennial, transparency and social awareness have to be the cornerstones of any organization. Leaders and their HR need to align their current values accordingly. Some fundamentals like truth, humility, courage, energy, edge, equity, social justice will have to be ...
Poverty of Economics discusses some serious misgivings in modern economic regarding analysis of poverty in poor countries. The work, in fact, is a study of wealth, not of poverty. It traces paradigms more suited to the agricultural and rural economies based neither on Keynesian short-term rules of social investment for kicking up a slumping capital market, nor the re-energised competitive, export – oriented reforms. The book argues for a moderate non-capital ...
People, power and poverty lie at the bottom of democracy but the system operates from the top. This creates the Panchayat Dilemma. Panchayat is said to be the God that failed but remains the last hope of the poor in the villages. Will Indian democracy take a u-turn to reach the poor-is a big question mark. The book tries to solve some of the riddles related to Panchayats and throws light on issue which the policy-makers have so far by-passed or over-looked. ...
There has been an intense quest for some alternatives to replace capitalism and socialism which in India are borrowed systems from the West, and which are breaking down as a system for the poor. The real shortcoming of the systems is the complete lack of public morality and goodness that the rich in power, owe to the poor. Of late, a few economists started taking initiative in bringing spirituality as a necessary component of the system as its Indian face but ...
India the shapeless; India the formless; India the soul; India the spirit. India has found numerous expressions; India has found numerous faces. But the soul of India--the identity, the personality--remains the same; unaltered by time, untransformed by circumstances. However, there have been personalities, systems and events that have wandered over the landscape of this country and left an indelible mark--a permanent imprint--on the social and cultural ethos of ...