Peter Scott-Morgan, author of the best-selling, The Unwritten Rules of the Game, and his colleagues at Arthur D. Little have discovered that Fortune 500 companies are currently spending twice their profits on change initiatives; yet they are only satisfied with half the results. The obvious question is “How can we stop this?” The paradigm–shifting answer, based on a six year study of Fortune 500 companies, is: concentrate on maximizing stability within a changing environment—don’t fixate on change. This book explains how by developing the six competencies needed to achieve dynamic stability—the management stabilizers of strategy, tactics, operations, and the enabling stabilizers of teamwork, quality, and communication—companies can avoid being swamped by the disruption of unending turbulence.

The Accelerating Organization: Embracing the Human Face of Change

Business & Money

Maira, Arun

Scott-Morgan, Peter B.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The first book to get at the root cause of India's problems India is a country of enormous contradictions. On the one hand, India is one of the fastest-growing leaders in the new economy, with burgeoning technological prowess and a myriad of exciting business opportunities. At the same time, it is burdened with enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and a labyrinthine bureaucracy. This book by one of India's leading executives, discusses the country's recent economic transformation and addresses key issues that will not only affect companies investing in India but individuals struggling to cope with these changes. Using techniques of scenario planning and organizational learning, Maira guides the reader through the complex structures of Indian business and society and introduces a new approach to change certain to ignite debate.

Shaping the Future: Leadership through Communities of Aspiration in India and Beyond

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Discordant Democrats

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Viking India

'The Learning Factory is a book full of anecdotal stories that offers different teachings and lessons for students, business professionals, as well as those curious about the Tata way of business. This firsthand narration of interactions and incidents with Tata leaders gives a new insight into the group's leadership and strategy and helps better understand its value-driven business.' - Ratan Tata Founded in 1868 by Jamshetji Tata, the Tata Group symbolizes the great Indian story of hope, growth and phenomenal success.The group played the role of a nation builder in post- independent India. Its companies were headed by legendary chairpersons, all of whom firmly believed in the importance of continuously learning and growing. What can we learn from the individual stories that come together to form this inspiring narrative? Like all great successes, this isn't one story-it is many accounts that are so powerful that the whole is so much greater than the sum of all its parts. In The Learning Factory, Arun Maira narrates people-centric episodes that bring alive the values of the Tata Group, standards that combine the high-velocity practices as well as the old-fashioned principles that make the Tata Group the giant it is today. With insightful stories of conduct that are as practically implementable as they are inspiring, this is a blueprint for the individual as well as the business that seeks success through its community of leaders, workers and thinkers.

The Learning Factory: How the Leaders of Tata Became Nation Builders

Job Hunting & Careers

Penguin Group

Remaking India: One Country, One Destiny

Remaking India is an impassioned critique of India’s current economic and social situation and argues for a better way to create inclusive development and growth. Arun Maira, one of India’s leading business consultants and thinkers, applies the principles of `scenario thinking` and the `learning field` to identify some key obstacles to India`s holistic growth. Deftly weaving memoir with history, this book discusses India`s journey from its birth as a nation, to its more recent liberalized phase. The author examines a broad canvas of concerns, and emphasizes that unless India`s growth percolates to its poor and underprivileged we will have a divided and unequal society and nation. He highlights some key steps that are needed to put India on the appropriate growth trajectory. He stresses that businesses must look beyond profits and emphasizes the critical need for collaboration between business and government for nation building, and, presents a conceptual roadmap for India`s future, suited to its diverse social, economic and cultural needs.

Economics

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Remaking India is an impassioned critique of India’s current economic and social situation and argues for a better way to create inclusive development and growth. Arun Maira, one of India’s leading business consultants and thinkers, applies the principles of `scenario thinking` and the `learning field` to identify some key obstacles to India`s holistic growth.  Deftly weaving memoir with history, this book discusses India`s journey from its birth as a nation, to its more recent liberalized phase. The author examines a broad canvas of concerns, and emphasizes that unless India`s growth percolates to its poor and underprivileged we will have a divided and unequal society and nation. He highlights some key steps that are needed to put India on the appropriate growth trajectory. He stresses that businesses must look beyond profits and emphasizes the critical need for collaboration between business and government for nation building, and, presents a conceptual roadmap for India`s future, suited to its diverse social, economic and cultural needs.

Redesigning the Aeroplane While Flying: Reforming Institutions

Rupa Publications Private Limited

The 21st century dawned with capitalism on the ascendant across the world and communism and socialism fading out. Simultaneously, there was a realization that chronic problems of environmental degradation, persistent poverty, and inequity between those who have the means to have more and those who have not, must be addressed much more effectively. Capitalism must now transform itself to provide the solutions. Business corporations are the growth engines and beneficiaries of capitalism. Therefore, it is up to business leaders to engage civil society and co-create the new models that will enable capitalism and corporations to improve the world for everyone. Transforming Capitalism provides a collection of thought-pieces and stories to facilitate the dialogue between business managers and civil society that has become imperative. It is a field-book to assist business managers on their journey to discover their new role and develop the new management concepts they need.

Transforming Capitalism: Business Leadership to Improve the World for Everyone

Nimby Books

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