How To Turn Executives Into Wizards

Originals  by Adam Grant  Penguin Random House  Pages 322; Price £ 12.99                                                                                                                                                                                          Can one individual change the world? Adam Grant's answer is a resounding YES   The opening page of the book ‘Originals’ has a quote from George Bernard Shaw - "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in adapting the world to himself.” Originality is taking the road less travelled, championing a set of new ideas that go against the grain but ultimately making things better. Adam Grant candidly admits that "nothing is completely original, in the sense that all our ideas are influenced by what we learn from the world around".  He has chosen a wide canvas and painted vividly a number of peoples’ mindscapes. There are thinkers, lawyers, Silicon Valley giants, Presidents, Prime Mini

Trillion Dollar Coach By - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle John Murray(Publishers); pages 217;  Rs 599  Bill Gates once told an interviewer, "Steve Jobs was a wizard…….(and) I was like a minor wizard". By that standard Bill Campbell, who was a ‘sounding board’, a coach, a mentor, and a friend of Steve Jobs must be considered a super coaching wizard. The book, 'Trillion Dollar  Coach' is indeed a playbook for business wizards, not only in the IT industry but for all business executives.   Bill Campbell coached Steve Jobs when he was re-building Apple from near bankruptcy to make it a company with a market valuation of several hundred billion dollars. Bill also worked side by side with Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to build Google (now Alphabet) from a start-up to a company with a market capitalization of several billion dollars. He also coached many other billionaires (see the list below; it is not an exhaustive one). Taking into account the t

Covid-19 has created a catastrophic business blizzard. There has never been a total global lockdown, not even during the two world wars. The bottom has dropped out of the economy and all-round there is a feeling as if the sky is falling. But, the show must go on. The shutters of shops and factories are, perhaps, already rolled up or will be soon. They face insurmountable obstacles to resurrect and zoom to a new zenith.  Where do you begin? Drop right away the idea of "first consolidation management and then change management".  Avoid the temptation to first turn to advisors, consultants, mentors or astrologers, if you admire any. They are often the victims of the system and sequential thinking. This is an unprecedented calamity, which has stunned and stupefied most. Now is the time for awakening and fresh thinking. Only the Wizards Can Lead in Business Blizzards The following story, a true one at that, provides clear-cut guidance and direction that can p