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Title:
Getting Things Done
Author: David Allen
Price:
Rs 490
Is your workload overwhelming?
Does it just keep mounting up while your stress levels reach
fever pitch? In "Getting Things Done" David Allen
teaches you how to keep a clear head, relax and organise your
thoughts while implementing the methods that he has introduced
at organisations like Microsoft, Lockheed and the US Department
of Justice: Learn the 'do it, delegate, it, defer it, drop it'
principle to empty your in-tray; Handle e-mail, paperwork and
unexpected demands in a system of self-management; Plan and
progress projects; Reasses goals and stay focused in changing
environments; Apply the two minute rule when deciding what to
do now and what to defer; Overcome feelings of anxiety and being
overwhelmed; With clear and specific methods and advice, David
Allen's tried and trusted formula for business efficiency could
transform the way you operate and your experience of work
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Title:
The Black Swan
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bestselling author
Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness
in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines
the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events
that have massive impact. Engaging and enlightening, The Black
Swan is a book that may change the way you think about the world,
a book that Chris Anderson calls, "a delightful romp through
history, economics, and the frailties of human nature."
'An idiosyncratically brilliant new book' -
Niall Ferguson, Sunday Telegraph
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Title:
Fooled by Randomness
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Price: Rs 260
Everyone wants to
succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful
than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something
altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth
sensation that will change the way you think about business
and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we
perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an
entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all
too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill.
It is only because we fail to understand probability that we
continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where
none exist. This irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions
of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize
randomness. Now it can do the same for you.
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Title:
The Long Tail
Author: Chris Anderson
Price: Rs 515
The Long Tail is a
powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. In
this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future
of business does not lie in hits alone - the high-volume end
of a traditional demand curve - but in what used to be regarded
as misses - the long tail of that same curve. And this has been
made possible by new technologies that have created distribution
channels that made it economically viable and profitable to
offer a long tail of products efficiently to consumers. The
world of books has been transformed by Amazon; the record business
has been transformed by iTunes and Rhapsody. Anderson states
that a similar transformation is coming to just about every
industry. Wherever you look, modest sellers, niche products
and quirky titles are becoming an immensely powerful cumulative
force.
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Title:
The Weather Makers
Author: Tim Flannery
Price: Rs 545
In this insightful
and fascinating book Tim Flannery discusses the direct relationship
between greenhouse gases, global warming and climate change.
He takes us on a journey through history and around the globe
as he describes the wondrous diversity of the world's ecosystems,
and explains how the great aerial ocean unites us. Along the
way, we meet polar bears and golden toads, and travel from ocean
depths to mountaintops, via desert, swamp and rainforest.
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Title:
Small Giants
Author: Bo Burlingham
Price: Rs 395
'Small Giants' is a fascinating
book about great companies that have chosen to stay private,
not chase growth or scale but focus on things that the owners
are passionate about and committed to - whether customers, employees,
products or community. Inc. magazine editor Bo Burlingham takes
us deep inside 14 such purpose-driven companies to determine
the secret ingredient, the elusive "mojo" that makes
them great.
Size and growth rate aside, these small giants share some very
interesting characteristics. They are all utterly determined
to be the best at what they do. Most have been recognized for
excellence by independent bodies inside and outside their industries.
All have had the opportunity to raise a lot of capital, grow
very fast, do mergers and acquisitions, expand geographically,
and generally follow the well-worn route of other successful
companies.
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Title:
The Well Timed Strategy
Author: Peter Navarro
Price: Rs 499
Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing
competitive advantage - the opportunity to proactively manage
business cycles and economic turbulence. In this book Peter
Navarro reveals why the business cycle is an even more powerful
P&L driver that most realize and shows how it can be profitably
managed.
Navarro distills clear and compelling strategies and tactics
for managing economic upswings and downswings, oil price spikes,
currency crises, trade wars and other macroeconomic shocks.
His "Master Cyclist" management principles address
everything from inventory, production, and supply chain management
to marketing, pricing, and long-term capital investment.
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Title:
Designed to Win
Author: Hiroaki Yoshihara and Mary Pat McCarthy
Price: Rs 399
Co-authored by two global business advisors from KPMG, 'Designed
to Win' takes you inside the most successful transnational businesses
to show how they address the challenges of global competition.
Drawing upon their experience as senior partners with KPMG LLP
(U.S.), Hiroaki Yoshihara and Mary Pat McCarthy define the seven
fundamental characteristics of enduring global businesses: change
from outside-in; create a performance meritocracy; remove internal
boundaries; foster autonomous innovation; know your markets;
test assumptions & execute with discipline and acquire success.
With the help of extensive case studies and interviews with
executives at BMW, Caterpillar, Intel, Matsushita, Toyota and
other international industry leaders, they describe global-business
best practices in a range of key areas.
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Title:
SCORE
Author: Thomas T.Stallkamp
Price: Rs 499
To maximize long term profits, companies and their managers
need to focus more on win-win collaboration with business partners
rather than using coercion and adversarial tactics to force
compliance.
Stallkamp
pioneered new strategies for collaboration as President of
Chrysler Corporation. His breakthrough strategy (SCORE - Supplier
Cost Reduction Effort) turned Chrysler around and turned it
into the world's most profitable automaker. Organizations
ranging from Dell Computer to the U.S. Air Force are now profiting
from the lessons they learned from Chrysler. Stallkamp offers
a complete blueprint for deploying strategic collaboration
with suppliers, customers, and employees. Stallkamp reveals
detailed metrics that demonstrate the remarkable cost and
quality improvements strategic collaboration makes possible.
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Title:
In Spite of the Gods
Author: Edward Luce
Price: Rs 695
India's diversity and complexity in terms of its people, religions,
philosophy and culture as well as the great inequalities and
contradictions have typically caused writers to either romanticize
or vilify it. Edward Luce's account of the 'strange' raise of
modern India is a rare clear-eyed view that is illuminating
and absorbing.
India
has lately been the cynosure of the world and seen along with
China as the next great political and economic players. But
the booming tech centers of its cities stand in stark contrast
to the medieval poverty of its villages. Its fervent tradition
of democracy is coupled with systemic corruption. Its modern
history as a secular and diverse nation is being challenged
by the rise of Hindu nationalism.
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Title:
The Art of the Start
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Price: Rs 1075
What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements
of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do
you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues
everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking,
and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer,
provides the answers.
'The Art
of the Start' will give you the essential steps to launch
great products, services, and companies-whether you are dreaming
of starting the next Microsoft or a not-for-profit that's
going to change the world. It also shows managers how to unleash
entrepreneurial thinking at established companies, helping
them foster the pluck and creativity that their businesses
need to stay ahead of the pack. Each chapter begins with GIST-Great
Ideas for Starting Things-and ends with FAQ, frequently AVOIDED
questions, to review the chapter's content. Kawasaki also
offers his field-tested techniques for bootstrapping, branding,
networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important
in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz.
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