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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: The Lean Startup

Startups operate in an uncertain and dynamically changing environment. Most of them fail. This is because the entrepreneurs  initiate and manage them either in a conventional (rigorous and time consuming upfront market research, planning, strategizing) manner or  in an adhoc … Continue reading

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Book Review : Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Social entrepreneurship is a business oriented approach towards building and running an  organization devoted to a social cause.  Best practices of the business world like reporting of results, measuring the return on investments, minimizing the overheads and waste, and continuous … Continue reading

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Bill & Dave – How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company

Author: Michael S. Malone Published: 2008 Publisher: Penguin Group Starting right from the childhood days of Bill and Dave, it covers their lives as students and how they met and started the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company in a garage in 1939. … Continue reading

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Aligning Ferret : How an Organization Meets Extraordinary Challenges

Authors: Swapna Kishore and Rajesh Naik Published: 2008 Publisher: Postscript Impressions This “business novel”  is about how Sunny Chinappa, a senior manager of a small Indian IT firm called Ferret, plays a key role in aligning it to the business … Continue reading

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