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Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life | Official Biography of the chairman of Bajaj Group
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Gita Piramal
Rahul Bajaj is a billionaire businessman, the chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group and a former member of Parliament. This book is not just the story of Rahul Bajaj but the story of India. The author takes us through the country’s transformation from the time Rahul Bajaj’s mother was imprisoned during the freedom struggle to the prism of his eventful life. Based on unrestricted interviews, the book is full of anecdotes, business learnings and political asides. It is, at its core, a moving human story.
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The Missing Cryptoqueen: Hundreds of Countries, Billions of Dollars, One Lie
Original price was: Rs. 3,890.00.Rs. 3,490.00Current price is: Rs. 3,490.00.or 3 X Rs.1,163.33 withJamie Bartlett
‘The largest financial scam ever’ – Fortune
‘The bizarre case of OneCoin illustrates how easily a classic scam could be reinvented for the digital age’ – Financial Times
‘The story of OneCoin stands out even among the outlandish capers of the cryptocurrency era’ – Wall Street Journal
In 2014 a brilliant Oxford graduate called Dr Ruja Ignatova promised to revolutionise money and make people rich in the process. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. And the self-styled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer. She launched OneCoin, an exciting new cryptocurrency that she promised would not only earn its investors untold fortunes, it would change the world. OneCoin swept the globe – becoming one of the fastest companies to make $1 billion in revenue.
By 2017, billions of dollars had been invested in OneCoin in hundreds of countries, from the USA to Pakistan, Hong Kong to Yemen, and the UK to Uganda. But by the end of the year Ruja Ignatova had disappeared, along with the money, and it slowly became clear that her revolutionary cryptocurrency was not all it seemed.
The Missing Cryptoqueen tells the unbelievable story of the rise, disappearance and fall of Dr Ruja Ignatova. It is a modern tale of intrigue, techno-hype and herd madness that reveals how OneCoin became the biggest scam of the 21st Century.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Original price was: Rs. 3,490.00.Rs. 3,190.00Current price is: Rs. 3,190.00.or 3 X Rs.1,063.33 withSteven Levy
“Levy is America’s premier technology journalist. . . . He has produced the most interesting book ever written about Google. He makes the biggest intellectual challenges of computer science seem endlessly fun and fascinating. . . . We can expect many more books about Google. But few will deliver the lively, idea-based journalism of In the Plex.” —Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Washington Post
“Almost nothing can stop a remarkable idea executed well at the right time, as Steven Levy’s brisk-but-detailed history of Google, In the Plex, convincingly proves. . . . makes obsolete previous books on the company.” —Jack Shafer, The San Francisco Chronicle
“An instructive primer on how the minds behind the world’s most influential internet company function.” —Richard Waters, The Wall Street Journal
Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.
Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters—the Googleplex—to show how Google works.
While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revolutionized Internet search. They followed this brilliant innovation with another, as two of Google’s earliest employees found a way to do what no one else had: make billions of dollars from Internet advertising. With this cash cow, Google was able to expand dramatically and take on other transformative projects: more efficient data centers, open-source cell phones, free Internet video (YouTube), cloud computing, digitizing books, and much more.
The key to Google’s success in all these businesses, Levy reveals, is its engineering mind-set and adoption of such Internet values as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk taking. After its unapologetically elitist approach to hiring, Google pampers its engineers—free food and dry cleaning, on-site doctors and masseuses—and gives them all the resources they need to succeed. Even today, with a workforce of more than 23,000, Larry Page signs off on every hire.
But has Google lost its innovative edge? With its newest initiative, social networking, Google is chasing a successful competitor for the first time. Some employees are leaving the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. Can the company that famously decided not to be evil still compete?
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The TCS Story and Beyond
Rs. 2,590.00or 3 X Rs.863.33 withIn 2003, Tata Consultancy Services set itself a mission, ‘Top Ten by 2010’. In 2009, a year ahead of schedule, TCS made good on that promise. In fourteen years, the company had transformed itself from the 155 million dollars operation that S. Ramadorai inherited as CEO in 1996.
Today it is one of the world’s largest IT software and services companies with more than 240,000 people working in forty two countries and annual revenues of over 10 billion dollars. The TCS story is one of modern India’s great success stories. In this fascinating book, S. Ramadorai, one of the country’s most respected business leaders, recounts the steps to that extraordinary success, and outlines a vision for the future where the quality initiatives he undertook can be applied to a larger national framework.
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Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World
Original price was: Rs. 5,990.00.Rs. 5,390.00Current price is: Rs. 5,390.00.or 3 X Rs.1,796.67 withGinni Rometty
- A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
- Named one of “7 Books by Women Leaders That Will Accelerate Your Success” by CHIEF
“An insightful read that I recommend to anyone interested in how an individual can come to influence the world.” — Walter Isaacson, author, Steve Jobs and The Code Breaker
“Ginni Rometty is an inspiring leader who knows that you have what it takes to succeed and improve the world. Her story can be your playbook.” — Ray Dalio, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Principles; founder, Bridgewater Associates
“In Good Power, one of the world’s most admired leaders reveals pivotal principles that propelled her success. It’s a refreshingly personal, resoundingly practical read on gaining power and using it to empower.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Think Again
“A fascinating book about overcoming disadvantage and claiming one’s own potential. What makes Rometty a truly exceptional leader is her commitment to using her power to make a positive and lasting difference in others’ lives.” — Ken Frazier, former Chairman and CEO, Merck
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Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
Rs. 2,190.00or 3 X Rs.730.00 withRay Kroc
“Columbus discovered America, Jefferson invented it, and Ray Kroc Big Mac’d it.” ―Tom Robbins, Esquire magazine
“He was past fifty before he ever thought of getting into the fast food business. Within a decade he was a millionaire, and his odyssey is a classic success story!” ―Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him a place beside the men who founded not merely businesses but entire new industries.
But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was 52 when he met the McDonald brothers and opened his first franchise.
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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
Rs. 2,890.00or 3 X Rs.963.33 withRobin Wigglesworth
- Best books of 2021, Financial Times
Trillions is both entertaining and educational. Wigglesworth explores one of the most important modern-day financial innovations and explains its broad impact on financial markets, investors, global economies and even capitalism. A terrific read and a topic that will become more important as passive investments increasingly dominate markets. Wigglesworth brings what could be a dull topic to full life ― Gregory Zuckerman, special writer at the Wall Street Journal and author of The Man Who Solved the Market
The simplest, humblest ideas are sometimes the ones that turn the world upside down. Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat, because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you ― Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up
A real tour de force, this engaging and thought-provoking book brings together several historical threads – from Warren Buffett’s famous hedge fund bet to the ‘Manhattan Project of financial economics’ – to show how passive investing and index funds have evolved into an ETF phenomenon that has ‘humble[d] the investment industry … reshape[d] finance forever,’ and now poses risks for future financial stability and economic wellbeing ― Mohamed El Erian, Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz and author of When Markets Collide
Robin Wigglesworth is one of the most lucid and exciting journalists writing about finance today. Trillions tackles the enormous changes that have swept the investing world through the stories of its charismatic innovators. It’s a fascinating journey and a crucial book for anyone trying to understand the financial markets ― Bradley Hope, writer at Project Brazen and author of Billion Dollar Whale
In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of index funds, bringing to life the colourful characters behind their birth, growth and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon. It is the untold story behind one of the most pressing financial uncertainties of our time.
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Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
Original price was: Rs. 3,890.00.Rs. 3,690.00Current price is: Rs. 3,690.00.or 3 X Rs.1,230.00 withDan McCrum
Dan McCrum’s deep dive into Wirecard was the financial investigation of the decade. Money Men tells the story from inside Wirecard’s headquarters with entertaining drama and verve, but it also unspools the high-stakes reporting process McCrum and his colleagues carried out at the Financial Times against the odds. It instantly enters the canon of great financial crime books. — Bradley Hope, co-author of New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale
A milestone in the history of investigative journalism. — Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, awarding the Reporters Forum Reporterpreis
Money Men is a rip-roaring ride into the underworld of the global economy. Dan McCrum is a proper reporter: there is no threat, con trick or hangover that will stand in his way. In today’s pandemic of lies, courageous journalism like this is the medicine. — Tom Burgis, Sunday Times bestselling author of Kleptopia
This behind-the-scenes look into the years of work and the persistence that was required to topple Wirecard is nothing short of incredible. ― AltFi
A fantastic book. Think of Dan as a bespectacled James Bond with a keyboard instead of a gun. ― Steve Clapham, author of The Smart Money Method
Money Men is the astonishing inside story of Wirecard’s multi-billion-dollar fraud, Europe’s biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth.
When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.
As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn’t the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech darling, now a smouldering wreck, by the journalist who brought it crashing down – perfect for those who loved Bad Blood and Empire of Pain.
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The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Original price was: Rs. 8,990.00.Rs. 7,990.00Current price is: Rs. 7,990.00.or 3 X Rs.2,663.33 withClayton M. Christensen
- A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
- New York Times Bestseller
- National Post Bestseller
“Fresh thinking aplenty … nothing less than a handbook for managers who would rather disrupt than be disrupted” — The Financial Times
“Every dilemma demands a solution. And this book lives up to its promise: More than an engrossing read, shot through with Christensen’s rigorous thinking and trademark clarity, it’s a valuable tool for every aspiring upstart–whether you’re inside a billion-dollar company or have a billion-dollar glimmer in your eye.” — Fast Company
“If [Christensen’s] first book left business with the quandary of how a middle-aged company can be as creative as the new kid on the block, [this] book is an instructive tutorial on how to rekindle the spark of youth and nurture the fragile flame.” — The New York Times
A seminal work by bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen, now updated with fresh examples. In the international bestseller The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen exposed the Achille’s heel of many companies, by ignoring the disruptive technologies that evolve to displace them, they help initiate their own demise. In The Innovator’s Solution, Christensen and Michael Raynor take the idea of disruption one step further explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves.
Now with several new chapters and updated cases, this revised and expanded edition shows how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today’s hyper-accelerated business environment. Christensen (author of the award-winning Harvard Business Review article, ”How Will You Measure Your Life?”), Raynor and new co-author Derek van Bever give advice on the business decisions crucial to achieving truly disruptive growth and propose guidelines for developing your own disruptive growth engine. Citing in-depth research and theories tested in hundreds of companies across many industries, The Innovator’s Solution is an important addition to any innovation library and an essential read for entrepreneurs and business builders.
Key Features:
- An updated edition of a business classic, fresh examples keep this book relevant
- Audience for the book is senior managers and business leaders responsible for innovation, as well as their teams
- Includes classic cases – Apple, Cisco, Dell, GE, IBM, Microsoft as well as newer cases still being finalized. From these stories, readers learn
- Inside info from some of the world’s most innovative companies
- Practical advice on how to create successful and disruptive innovations
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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric
Rs. 6,790.00or 3 X Rs.2,263.33 withWilliam D. Cohan
- The New Yorker Best Books of 2022
- Long Listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
- Financial Times Best Books of 2022
- The Economist Best Books of 2022
This hubris-to-nemesis story… must count as one of the greatest dramas in business history… William D Cohan captures that drama exceptionally well… a gripping read…. a tour de force — John Plender ― Financial Times
General Electric was once the most important, powerful and influential company on earth – and this is the definitive story of how it got that way, and what happened next. William Cohan takes us inside the company’s boardrooms and factories with a rollicking and fascinating tale of corporate brilliance, bitter infighting, business daring and monied folly that illuminates not just General Electric, but the world and economy it helped create — Charles Duhigg
The rise and fall of GE is explained as the product of individual men and their mercurial decisions, yet its fate has a wider significance. It ought to be a warning: cost-cutting, outsourcing and financial speculation produce a warped model of value that is liable to collapse — Hettie O’Brien ― Guardian
A magisterial history of the astounding rise – and unimaginable fall – of America’s most iconic corporation
Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of success that hid cracks in its foundation. In this masterful history, William D. Cohan, one of America’s most pre-eminent financial journalists, argues that GE’s legacy is both a paragon and a cautionary tale through which to understand twentieth-century America.
Power Failure limns the eventful 130-year history of GE, bringing fresh analysis drawn from rare interviews with key figures of the company’s golden era, including Jack Welch himself. As Cohan recounts, Welch traded on a sterling legacy to make GE the most valuable and respected company in the world, while cloaking its vulnerabilities. What he handed to his successor Jeffrey Immelt was, Cohan argues, both an impossible standard and a more troubled reality.
Tracing the company’s leaps and stumbles through the personalities that defined it, Power Failure offers a surprising retelling of the GE story, puncturing the myth we think we know for a fresh look at its legacy – and what it tells us about the state of the financial world.
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Sam Walton: Made In America
Rs. 1,890.00or 3 X Rs.630.00 withSam Walton
“[A] wise and inspiring autobiography–Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“It’s a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it’s a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don’t, and about sticking to your guns.” — Sam Walton
“Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease.” — Detroit Free Press
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America’s heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.
In a story rich with anecdotes and the “rules of the road” of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
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The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas from the 19th to the 21st Century
Rs. 2,390.00or 3 X Rs.796.67 withR. M. Lala
‘A saga of enterprise, that is not to be missed’ – Business Line
‘The book stands out like a jewel in more ways than one… A writer of the calibre of R.M. Lala invests the entire narrative with simplicity, dignity and elegance’ – Financial Express
When Jamsetji Tata started a trading firm in 1868, few could have guessed that he was also opening an important chapter in the making of modern India. Jamsetji saw that the three keys to India’s industrial development were steel, hydroelectric power and technical education and research. A century and a half later, the Tatas can claim with justice to have lived up to the vision of their founder.
But the road to success has never been smooth. Appearing for the first time in this edition is the story of how the Tatas, with Ratan Tata at the helm, have had to grapple with change in the post-1992 era of economic reforms. In a frank epilogue, Ratan Tata talks about the difficulties he faced in implementing change, including resistance from his colleagues. The Creation of Wealth is R.M. Lala’s best-selling account of how the Tatas have been at the forefront in the making of the Indian nation “not just by their phenomenal achievements as industrialists and entrepreneurs but also by their signal contributions in areas like factory reforms, labour and social welfare, medical research, higher education, culture and arts and rural development.
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