Tag Archives: Business

Book Review: Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and the team at Gazelles

There are 3 main challenges in scaling up a business once you get past the start up stage: 1) Growing the capabilities of the leadership team 2) Installing a scalable infrastructure to manage the complexities that keep increasing with growth … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen

Traditional product development approach does not work well in a complex, uncertain and volatile business environment. The tendency to increase the efficiency of each step in the development process by working with big batch sizes of work items (specifications, design, … Continue reading

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Book Review – When Teams Collide

International teams are now a reality in multinational organizations. In this book, Richard D. Lewis, an internationally known cross-cultural consultant and trainer provides guidelines on how to  successfully assemble, manage and strengthen international teams. He  discusses the following 11 skills … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking

How to exploit the combined power of online and offline networking  for business success is what this book is all about. It has four parts. Part 1 : The Joined Up Approach to Business Networking – what networking is and … Continue reading

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Book Review: Top Business Psychology Models

Business psychology: Studies and theories which help us understand or explain human behavior, emotions and cognitions at work. Business psychology has linkages with other areas like human physiology, spirituality and philosophy which have implications on performance at work. In this  … Continue reading

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Book Review: Organisation Culture – Getting it Right

Author: Naomi Stanford This book on corporate culture is intended for managers and business people who are struggling to: a) Understand the culture of their organization b) Get a grip on why it matters c) Get their culture right for … Continue reading

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Book Review: People CMM 2nd Edition

Authors: Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley & Sally A. Miller People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM)   is a  Human Capital Management framework developed by Carnegie Mellon University. This framework is based on the best practices of diverse fields like human … Continue reading

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Book Review : The Professional – Defining the New Standards of Excellence at Work

Author: Subroto Bagchi Who is a true professional ? The author a well known business leader in Indian IT industry, redefines “professionalism”  in this book. As per Bagchi, being professional is much more than accepting the responsibility and doing the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Business Genius

Author: Peter Fisk As business professionals most of the times we endlessly focus on getting , analyzing and reporting data. We rarely rely on our own intuition, insights and imagination. According to the author Peter Fisk, a highly experienced business strategist … Continue reading

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Book Review: NLP for Rookies

Authors: Becky Mallery and Katherine Russell NLP  (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a method for understanding and influencing the human mind. NLP can be a very useful tool for getting buy-in for one’s ideas and for ensuring desired actions from the … Continue reading

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