Books

With the world ‘becoming flat' and outsourcing here to stay, almost everybody is vulnerable, writes Lakshmanan Solayappan in I Lost My Job But… ...

The sales target for Krish, a new tractor that Deere & Company launched in India, was 2,350. It was already a ‘stretch' goal for the first four ...

As part of its national campaign against FDI in retail, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has released a book — FDI in Retail Trade of ...

Excerpts and photographs from the book The beginning Early one day in July 1639, an Englishman surveyed a sandy strip along the Coromandel Coast.

Any book commemorating an institution usually carries paeans of praise to the founders, dwells in detail on events in its life and rounds off with a ...

To explain the relationship between wealth and income, a recent paper ( www.ers.usda.gov) uses the bathtub comparison. Wealth is analogous to the ...

She was Urdu's most iconoclastic writer — engaging, fiery and controversial, searingly honest and, above all, a rebel, a feminist and a fighter.

Through the memoir “A Life in Words”, Ismat Chughtai deftly describes the double standards and hypocrisy in Muslim society vis-à-vis women. Her rebellious nature went hand-in-hand with her unrestrained, courageous writing.

A common characteristic of bosses is the ‘I want this now' attitude. Changing such a boss may be tough; but you can learn how to manage such an ...

If the anxieties about the balance between work and life are keeping you awake, the right read for you is What Really Works: Blending the seven Fs ...

Condensing the economic history of a country as old, vast and complex as India into 366 pages is a challenging task. Considering that, the authors ...

The right to secede or the right not to secede is what is deliberated upon in the book under review. Neera Chandoke has dealt with the issue at a ...

The best part of Zareer Masani's memoir, And All is Said, on his late parents – Minoo Masani and Shakuntala – is the candour with which he tells the ...

Any learning, says Sunil Unny Guptan, is best carried out in an environment shorn of external status. He cautions that hierarchies in organisations ...

It is possible to know the path of birds flying in the sky, but not the ways of officers moving with their intentions concealed, says Kautilya. “We ...

There are coffee table books on India galore, but it's rare to see one on Indian enterprise, especially, such a detailed one. That is the refreshing ...

The world of finance is not limited to men in black suits, seated in plush offices. It touches everyone's lives in one way or the other, making a ...

JK Rowling, the acclaimed author of Harry Potter series, is penning her first novel for adults. Ms Rowling, who is worth an estimated £530 million, ...

Exceptional enterprise performance is a function of strategy, execution excellence, and leadership, sums up Corporate Champions: Excellent companies ...

Discover diamonds among coal. Thus reads the first of the five strategic principles discussed in High Performance Companies: Successful strategies ...

In many parts, The Game Changers comes across as a fanboy account of the accomplishments of IIT Kharagpur alumni turned entrepreneurs. That's not ...

Apple's rise as the world's largest company is a poorly chronicled piece of successful capitalism. The company effectively designs and integrates ...

Eric Burne's ‘Games People Play' has taught me many things. Here, I understood the relationship psychology… I learnt a lot about communication styles…

If you can say ‘yes' to rewinding to the past, here is Inside Steve's Brain: Business lessons from Steve Jobs, the man who saved Apple by Leander ...