30 Books That Can Make You a Better Leader - Claims CIO

Here is another list. Will I be able to get it to these ? http://www.cio.com/archive/111506/tl_readlist.html I dont want to loose the list incase if this link does not work...so here it is. 2007 RLF Reading List 1 Adler: How to Read a Book 2 Boyatzis & McKee: Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion 3 Kotter: Heart of Change 4 Bridges: Managing Transitions 5 Buckingham: First Break all the Rules 6 Dotlich, Noel and Walker: Leadership Passages 7 Conger: Winning ‘Em Over 8 DePree: Leadership is an Art 9 Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning 10 Friedman: The World is Flat 11 George: Authentic Leadership 12 Ghandi: the video 13 Goleman: Working with Emotional Intelligence 14 Hammerschlag: The Theft of the Spirit 15 Jamison: Nibble Theory 16 Katzenbach: The Wisdom of Teams 17 Lencioni: Death by Meeting: A Leadership Problem about Solving the most Painful Problem in Business 18 Machiavelli: The Prince 19 Mackenzie: Orbiting the Giant Hairball 20 Marquardt: Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask 21 O’Toole: Creating the Good Life 22 Patterson: Crucial Conversations 23 Rousseau & Cranston: The Social Contract 24 Shafir: The Zen of Listening 25 Jaworski: Synchronicity 26 Useem: Leadership Moment 27 Wallis: Two Old Women 28 Whyte: The Heart Aroused 29 Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go 30 Michalko: Thinkertoys

Product Vs Service

Excerpts from Bangalore Tiger – A McGraw-Hill book on Wipro by Steve Hamm. ----- “When technology is at a stage where the need in the market is greater than the technology can deliver, the product innovator has the advantage,” Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys, told me during an outdoor dinner last summer in Bangalore. “But now, the tech industry has overshot corporations’ ability to absorb technology, so the balance of power shifts from product innovation to those who distribute, like Dell and Google, and those, like the Indian companies, that integrate technologies and make them work in companies.” ---- It is pretty true isnt it. For all those people who think Indian companies will lose out because they are not product oriented...here is the reality. Chapter 1 is here.

Overheated Indian Economy

Too hot to handle This article makes a comparision between Indian and Chinese Economy