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Too many leaders, men and women alike, have bought into the notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally ‘masculine’ qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression and a host of other serious problems. But there is another way, one that restores a balance to this lopsided way of leading. Reaching into ancient spiritual and ...
The fashion industry is seductive. The lights, the glamour, the glory. You may be a great artist and have fabulous design ideas, but having a head for business is a different matter. So how do you go about establishing your fashion line? How do you build your brand and get splashed on the inside pages of glossies? Here is the perfect guide for you. Learn the basics of creating and executing a business plan, exhibiting your designs in big retail chains, setting up ...
At the age of twenty-five, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw partnered with an Irish entrepreneur, Leslie Auchincloss, to start Biocon India in a garage in Bengaluru. Armed with just a degree in beer making, this move to industrial enzymes and commodity small molecules was as audacious as it was far-sighted. Thirty-seven years on, Biocon is India’s largest research-driven biotech enterprise. And the accidental entrepreneur, Mazumdar-Shaw, is today a tough negotiator and ...
Set up in 1975 to jump-start India's power sector, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) soon became the largest company in the field. With thirty-two plants currently operating across the country and twenty-two projects under construction, it meets close to a quarter of India's demand and is among the top five power utilities in the world. This phenomenal success story is seen in large part as a result of the processes and work culture put in place ...
He begins with the question: do you have it in you to become an entrepreneur? And the answer lies within you. For entrepreneurship is not only about building a business, it is a way of life. The book provides an in-depth analysis on evaluating business models, building a start-up team, becoming the perfect CEO, investments and venture capital, compliance and organizational structure, start-up culture and employee management and everything else you need to know ...
Krishnamurthy's leadership has shown that be can achieve stupendous taske. If for any reason at all be fails, virtually the entire public sector will have to be written off for the nect twenty years,' noted the panel that cbose V. Krishnamurthy as the Business India Businessman of the Year in 1987.
Management of a business enterprise in India is a lot more diffcult than in other countries. there are far more uncertainties that an Indian manager has to encounter ...
The Moving Picture First Came to India a mere few months after the Lumiere brothers screened their first 'films' in Paris in December 1895. Writhin a decades, film-making had caught the imagination of artisis, photographers and busibnessmen the world over. Tragically, an overwhelming majority of those silent-era films are lost forever. In India, the situation is truly dismal. of the approximately 1,300 silent films produced between 1913 and 1931, barely 1 per ...
An inside ring-side account of the yin and yang, the competiton and cooperation and the rivalry and friendship that has characterized the IT industry and that has helped its stupendous growth. From under a billion dollars a decade and a half ago, today India’s exports of IT software and services have risen to US $ 60 billion.
This is the story of how Nasscom, the IT industry body, grew and the role it has played in putting India firmly in the forefront of ...
The targets were stupendous and considered unachievable by almost everyone. Slightly over two years to find a suitable partner, finalize all legal documentation, get governmental approval to these agreements as well as to the investment proposals, build a factory, develop a supplier base to meet localization regulations, create a sales and service network, and develop and launch a people's car that would sell 100,000 a year, in a sector where Indian expertise ...
Interviews of one hundred one Indian artists and essays by eminent art critics and thinkers.A landmark publication, THE KHOJBOOK takes a consolidated view of contemporary art practice in India during a particularly dynamic decade. This unique compendium contains five lead essays by eminent art critics and thinkers of our time, and interviews of 101 Indian artists by artists. Lavishly illustrated with over a 1000 coloured images of art works, this 680-page book ...
Bhanu Athaiya began her career in costume design in 1953. Over the next 56 years she built an extraordinary body of work that defined the aesthetics of costume design in Hindi cinema. Name any iconic look and Bhanu was behind it, whether it was Waheeda Rehman in Guide, Mumtaz in Brahmachari or Zeenat Aman in Satyam Shivam Sundaram. She has to her credit an amazing repertoire of 130 films and has worked with every director and producer of consequence, including ...
In the year 2000 the Indian Railways—the world’s second largest railway network under a single management—was nearly bankrupt. The government of the day embarked on a sedate path of incremental change, which was continued by the next government at a quickened pace. Alongside came a dynamic and differential tarrif policy and technical changes. The result was a radical improvement in the performance between 2004 and 2008, which attracted worldwide ...
Short biography and album recordings of fifty eminent musicians of India.