DC
Gene Machine (Paperback) by Venki Ramakrishnan
Gently Falls: The Bakula – Sudha Murthy (Paperback)
- ASIN: 0143103776
- Publisher: Penguin India; Latest Edition (14 February 2008)
- Language: English
- Perfect Paperback: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780143103776
- ISBN-13: 978-0143103776
- Item Weight: 200 g
- Dimensions : 13 x 1.2 x 19.7 cm
- Country of Origin: India
- Generic Name: BOOK
- Condition: New
--
Gently Falls: The Bakula is a realistic-fictional read from Sudha Murthy, a profound writer and the Chairperson of Infosys Foundation. In this book, Sudha has boldly presented the agony of work ethics and modern lifestyle. The story is about a young couple Shrikant and Shrimati, and the changes they come across when Shrikant walks up the corporate ladder to the peak of success, while his married life slowly loses the charm and identity. With a magnificently straightway of writing, this book brings a simple but heart-touching story of a couple and the events that shake their life.
Shrikant has always been attracted towards Shrimati, his school companion, and after Shrimati also realizes having fallen in love with Shrikant, both get married. After Shrikant joined an IT company, he dedicates his entire focus to be successful in his career. Shrimati dilutes her own aspirations and stays back at home supporting Shrikant. Shrikant has turned into a successful corporate person while Shrimati has been with him in his journey. The life of both was fine until one-day Shrimati realizes while speaking to an old professor about what she had missed in her life. In the modern work style, she had lost her own identity, while just remaining the wife of a successful man.
This story of Shrimati’s confession to her inner emptiness and the extraordinary presentation of the dark side of corporate lifestyle is the main theme of the book. The readers would find the book to be a philosophical and beautiful depiction of a common topic and would be able to relate to many lives around. Penguin India published Gently Falls: The Bakula in 2008 in paperback.
Getting Naked (Paperback) by Patrick Lencioni
Getting over you (Paperback) by leslie b
Girl in Pieces Paperback by Kathleen Glasgow
Girl, Stop Apologizing ;-Paperback – by Rachel Hollis
Glucose Revolution (Green cover) (Paperback) by Jessie Inchauspe
God of Pain (Paperback) by Rina Kent
God of Ruin (Paperback) by Rina Kent
Going to the Movies Paperback – by Syd Field
Good Girl, Bad Blood:Book 2 Paperback – by Holly Jackson
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t – Jim Collins ( Paperback)
- ASIN : 0066620996
- Publisher : HarperBusiness; 1st edition (October 16, 2001)
- Language : English
- Format : Paperback
- ISBN-10 : 9780066620992
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.12 x 1.05 x 9.25 inches
- Condition : New
--
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study:
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
The Standards:
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
The Comparisons:
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.
The Findings:
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:
- Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
- The Hedgehog Concept: (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
- A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
- The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.