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Essential
Managers : Managing Change
By Robert Heller
Review by ilaxi
All with practical techniques, Essential Managers series has
'Managing Change' that shows you how to initiate, anticipate and
respond positively to change with the change! You can be an efficient and flexible manager to prove
your worth with great accessible charts and flow diagrams and
gear up for action and provide useful examples. Change is the
single most important element of business management today says
Rober Heller, the author of this series. With the rising economy
level and competitions in the aggressive market, organizations
and
particularly individuals, have to adopt a positive attitude to
bring about a 'Change'. To remain ahead of rivals, set trends
and lead change in order to survive. Technical advice is given
in this book on how to achieve the best from the staff by using
their strengths and involving them at all stages. It has 101
concise tips with vital information and as usually found common
in all Essential managers series - a self assessment exercise
allows you to evaluate and improve your 'Change Management
Skills'.
The contents are:
1.Understanding Change
a)Why Change? b)Understanding the causes of change c)Recognizing
Sources of change d)Categorizing types of change
2.Planning Change
a)Focusing on goals b)Identifying the demand for change
c)selecting essential changes d)evaluating complexity
d)planning ways to involve people e)choosing a timescale
f)making an action plan g)anticipating effects h)anticipating
resistance to change i) testing and checking plans
3.Implementing Change
a)Communicating Change b)Assigning Responsibility c)Developing
Commitment d)Changing culture e) Limiting Resistance
4. Consolidating Change
a) Monitoring progress b)Reviewing Assumptions c)Maintaining
Momentum d)Building on Change e)Assessing your Change
Management Skills.
The leaders do need to Change with the Change but now even an
individual need to brush up his skills and minimize negatives.
All change require changes in behavior which in turn flow from
and create changes in attitude. Attitudes effect from job
experiences, personnel changes, successes and setbacks and I
feel, involvement thoroughly to be realistic and avoid
complacency as success carries a hidden risk too. It's the need
of the hour to be alert and aware. This book is a gem for any
Corporate Office or Managers' office bookshelf. Even individuals
who dream big to be leaders should possess and gift their
bosses. Great Pick.
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More Recommendations - Just Books |
The Terror
Presidency by Jack L Goldsmith
Way of Politics in the 21st century.
Jack Goldsmith as the head of the
Legal counsel was to advice President Bush. The book is a bold
and courageous memoir of the major issues confronted by Jack
Goldsmith during his days. Dealing with Protocols concerning
torture, wartime powers and first hand accounts of Bush
administration
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After Tamerlane by John
Darwin
Review by :
M J Akbar
After Tamerlane by John
Darwin is a good two-in-one -- read it to learn, and also escape
-- because the thriving detail is great fun, because it subverts
official wisdom about the British and other empires with great
panache, and because it is weighty enough to hold the towel down
on a windy day at the beach.- MJ
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Cobra II
by Michael Gordon
Review:
Coming soon....
The Iside story of Invasion and occupation of
Iraq by the Chief Military correspondent from NY Times and retired
Marine Corps lieutenant general. The authors captures the fog of
war and war planning. The miscalculations of Bush Govt and more to
account of war to date.
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Arsenals of Folly
By Richard Rhodes
Review:
Coming soon....
Richard Rhodes presents a terrifying overview of
the global potential for killing.Rhodes examines America's and
Soviet Russia's nuclear weapons policies with special emphasis on
the Reagan-Gorbachev negotiations. A nuclear historian who talks
of the arms of all years and the end of the cold war with a
balanced look at the leaders, govt. officials and scientists
who've rolled over their policies in self interests. |
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson |
A Thousand Splendid Suns
By Khaled Hosseini |
Other Colors
by Orhan Pamuk,
Maureen Freely
(Translator) |
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Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, reports a war from the frontline - what
really went on inside the Emerald city and how the American
misadventure resulted to failure with a mission doomed. |
A Vietnam Anti-war novel written with compassion about
humanity. A story about all wars esp. America's war in Iraq.
The Bush quote that made a stir: We can't get out of Iraq,
we can't stay in;......... |
It's a story of friendship, this time between two Afghan
women brought together by war, loss, and fate. Spanning
nearly half a century, it's a story of love, resilience, and
self-sacrifice. |
Other Colors contains a series of stories by the Author who
was born in 1952 in Istanbul. The presentation
has a number of interesting stories which provide a window
into life in Istanbul. |
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1967:Israel, the War and the Year that
Transformed the Middle East |
Deception
By Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark |
Legacy of Ashes
by Tim Weiner |
India After Gandhi
By Ramachandra Guha |
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A columnist for Israel's leftwing Ha'aretz newspaper, Tom
Segev has combiled Political and social History of Israel. A
riveting narrative, based on letters, diaries and
interviews, as well as Israel's rich official archives, that
analyses the diplomatic and military background to the
six-day war and offers a shrewd insight into the nation's
psyche. |
Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons
Conspiracy! Based on hundreds of Interviews in US, Pakistan,
India, Israel, Europe and Southeast Asia.
(Review coming soon!) |
Exhaustive history of CIA and based on prodigious amount of
research of documents, oral histories and interviews. Legacy
of Ashes succeeds as both journalism and history, and it is
must reading for anyone interested in the CIA or American
intelligence since World War II. |
As Washington Post says, "A toast to India on it's 60th
Birthday" - This book is an extremely informative and
insightful information on socio-political history of India
after Independence written by a Historian who has taught at
Stanford and Yale. An eye opening book about Indian
politics, society, economy and development. |
| 2006 BESTSELLERS |
The
Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
The
Plot Against the World Trade Center: A Nightmare Research.
A bold sweep in its historical perspective.. 9/11 - More
Review here |
Cobra
II by Michael R. Gordon
The
inside story of the Invasion & Occupation of Iraq.
Well-written, thought provoking even if not always in
agreement. |
Fiasco
by
Thomas E Ricks
The American Military Adventure and how Iraq fell into
Chaos. Pentagon's political leaders took on road to
disaster... |
State
of Denial by
Bob Woodward
Examines how the Bush Administration avoided telling the
truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress and often, to
themselves. |
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2005 BESTSELLERS |
The
Next Attack
By Daniel
Benjamin-Steve Simon
Review: Coming soon....
An Alarm & a Warning! Another terrorist attack on
the U.S. is inevitable, according to analysts Simon and
Benjamin. Based on interviews with current and former
government officials, they warn that actions by the Bush
administration are only energizing radical Islamist
groups and paving the way for further terrorist attacks
even as we squander resources in the war in Iraq. |
The
World is Flat
By Thomas
Friedman
A columnist of NYTimes, Thomas Friedman in this
book has identified the most important economic and
political theme of the early 21st century - an
introduction to globalization divided into three phases: |
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Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq
By George Packer
As
the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are
agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now.
Packer, a pro-Iraq-war liberal, speaks of penetration of
the ideological fervor of Bush administration power
brokers that led to the Iraq War.The second half of The
Assassins' Gate takes the reader to Iraq
after the bombs have stopped dropping. Packer writes
vividly about how the country deteriorated into chaos,
with U.S. authorities in Iraq operating in crisis mode. |
Messages
to the World
by Osama bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence (Editor), James
Howarth (Translator)
In
this Book, Bruce Lawrence goal is to show in Bin Laden's
own words, how Bin Laden's views differ from mainstream
Islam and even other radical Muslim thought.This is a
collection of writings, public statements, interviews,
faxes and video recordings issued under bin Laden’s
name from 1994 to 2004.
The
world with Osama Bin Laden's is no wonder 'Terrorism'
and he is a scum of the Earth - But one wonders, Does
Osama Bin Laden really Exist??? |
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| 2005
INDIAN BESTSELLERS |
Two
Lives
by Vikram Seth
Vikram
Seth turns for the first time to a combination of
biography and memoir. The two people in the title
are his uncle and aunt, Shanti and Henny, to whom
his parents sent him in 1969, when he was
seventeen and about to begin his British schooling
at Tonbridge. |
Making
Sense of Chindia by Jairam Ramesh
Jairam
Ramesh addresses the security concerns that
continue to mediate the otherwise improving
Sino-Indian relationship and brings to the fore
issues that may still pose problems in the future.
He focus on the long term scenario that may emerge
between India and china. |
Bookless
in Baghdad
by Shashi Tharoor
The
author takes into delightful journey in these
essays on books, authors, reviews, critics,
literary festivals, literary aspirants, Empire and
India. He wanders the 'Book souk' in a Baghdad
under sanctions where the middle class are selling
their volumes so that can afford to live. |
Book
of Nature
by Ruskin Bond
This
brings together best of Ruskin Bond's writing on
natural world, not just in the Himalayan foothills
that he has made his home, but also in the cities
and small towns that he lived in or travelled
through as a young man. He writes of Leopards
padding down the lanes of Mussourie, first rains,
etc. |
Shalimar
The Clown
by Salman Rushdie
Like
some of the post 9/11 literature, Shalimar delves
deep into the roots of terrorism and explores the
turmoil generated by different faiths and cultures
atttempting to coexist. |
Chasing
the Monk's Shadow by Mishi Saran
This
book is about a chinese monk named Xuanzang Tsang
who set off an epic journey to India to study
Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters.He
left a valuable source of info. |
City
of Sin and Splendour by Bapsi Sidhwa
This
is a verse and prose; essays, stories, chronicles
and profiles by people who have shared a
relationship with Lahore. From mystical poems of
Madho Lal & Bulleh Shah to Iqbal's ode. |
The
Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
An
illuminating selection of writings from Nobel
prize winning Economist that outline the need to
understand contemporary India in the light of its
long arumentative tradition. |
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All Reviews by -
Blossomsmile
ilaxi, Amazon.com Reviewer
Author of Guardian of Angels: A practical guide to Joyful
Parenting
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