Rajeev Peshawaria’s ‘Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders’ reveals how bosses can unlock their leadership potential to create great companies.
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Roger Martin’s ‘Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL’ lays bare what is wrong with American capitalism and offers prescriptions for fixing it.
‘Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty’ by MIT’s Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo argues that anti-poverty policies are flawed because of lack of understanding of poverty and its reasons and have laid down a fresh approach based on learning from past experiences.
Gaur Hari and Govind Hari Singhania’s ‘Sir Padampat Singhania: Man of All Seasons’ about their father not only chronicles JK Organisation’s success story, but also talks about his relations with Jawharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi.
In his acclaimed book, ‘Capitalism at the Crossroads’, Stuart Hart argues that MNCs are in a position to innovate to lay the foundations of a sustainable form of global capitalism and also profit in the process.
Going by the response to his just-released Building Social Business, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is on the verge of ushering in a social business wave to address problems like poverty.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus pushes the envelop further to midwife the birth of two social investment funds and a social stock market to add more building blocks to an emerging global social business ecosystem.
C K Prahalad’s revised edition of ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ carries an update on the private sector’s changing role in poverty alleviation, development of new market opportunities, and evolution of rules that drive the engagement of businesses with emerging markets.
Reverse innovation hinges on three points: It is vital for MNCs to win in emerging markets, they need to change the organisational architecture and they need to come up with breakthrough innovations, explains Vijay Govindarajan, author of ‘How GE Disrupts Itself’.
When the Grameen Bank founder and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus labelled his breed of social entrepreneurs as 70% crazy, he was mouthing a popular perception.