How To Turn Executives Into Wizards

For Fast Growth of Your Company, Grow Executive Wizards Faster Times are tough and the challenges ahead appear unsurmountable. The temptation to first return to pre-crisis projects and plans will be irresistible. But, you are experts of that show and it will soon pick up the tempo, of course, with greater efforts and attention from you. The more pressing goals should be growth through diversification to add new digital age businesses and geographic expansion to new countries. This cannot be kept on hold till we 'stabilise.' The first step in the growth plans should be human development, before, or rather, for business expansion.  Preference should be given to grooming internal talent rather than looking out for 'geniuses' from outside. This caution is based on a distressing report that about  US$21 billion are spent on 'headhunting'! And, God knows how much is spent on job hunting.  To grow geniuses internally, major changes should be taken up in human developme...

Why I Failed  Lessons from Leaders  By Shweta Punj   Random House India  Pages180; Price Rs 199  (Available on Amazon)   One needs a stout heart to take the risk of starting a business in a highly competitive economy. A strong and imaginative mind is required to run a new business. And only a person with steely nerves can keep his sanity while seeing his/her business declining, or even folding up. The stalwarts chose by the author for her book "Why I failed?" obviously possess all the rare qualities in full measure, because they went through all three stages and progressed. They say "failure is an orphan", but in this book, the parentage is announced. Also, it is said that "experience is the best teacher, but very expensive". With this book, you can learn from others' experiences. The sub-title of the book is "Lessons from Leaders", a highly economic proposition. Shweta herself says that "this book is built around stories of people who s...