| 'Vision
India 2020' by Sramana Mitra, out 1 February 2010 |
Smarana
Mitra's book 'Vision India 2020' is an orgasm of entrepreneurial zeal
in which she takes 45 successfully established business models, adds
a dash of marketing masala, and relaunches them in a 'futuristic retrospective'
India circa 2020. Admittedly, Mitra who has successfully started three
US-based businesses and written several books begins with a good grounding
in research.
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| 'India
Inc' Book Launch, 21 January 2010 |
The
launch party for Vikas Pota's book 'India Inc - How India's Top Ten
Entrepreneurs are Winning Globally' was held at the Crowne Plaza
hotel in Central London on 21st January 2010. Pota, who runs government
and public relations agency Saffron Chase, was able to draw a wide
range of British politicians, Indian businessmen and women and celebrities
as guests for one of the most crowded book launches in recent months.
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| India
Inc: How India's Top Ten Entrepreneurs are Winning Globally, Out 7
Jan 2010 |
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In
India Inc, Vikas Pota highlights 10 Indian achievers who cover every
aspect of India's growing economic prowess. A fascinating insight
into the minds of movers and shakers behind the success of huge
corporations, including Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys, K
V Kamath, Chairman of ICICI Bank and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairwoman
of Biocon India, Asia's largest biotechnology company.
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| 'I
Will Teach You to be Rich: No Guilt, No Excuses...'by Ramit Sethi,
Out 7 Jan 2010 |
'
I Will Teach You To Be Rich' is a practical approach based on the
four pillars of personal finance banking, saving, budgeting
and investing and the wealth-building ideas of personal entrepreneurship.
Witty, entertaining, wise and practical, Ramit Sethi explains how
to automate your money flow - i.e. earn while sleeping, why your new
best friend should be the taxman and how to beat banks and credit
cards at the fee game.
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| Lords
of Finance: Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, Out 7 Jan
2010 |
The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street
Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which
crippled an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of
the Second World War. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided,
had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central
bankers. Their names were lost to history, their lives and actions
forgotten, until now.
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| Web
Analytics 2.0:...by Avinash Kaushik, Out 27 Oct 2009 |
Web
Analytics 2.0 presents a new framework that will permanently change
how you think about analytics. It provides specific recommendations
for creating an actionable strategy, solving challenges such as measuring
social media and multichannel campaigns and employing tactics for
truly listening to your customers.
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| 'The
Economical Environmentalist.....' by Prashant Vaze, Out 23 Oct 2009 |
The
economy is imploding: jobs are vanishing faster than high street banks
and the price of home heating and organic muesli has shot up. But
saving the planet doesn't have to cost the world and nor do tough
economic times need to relegate concerns for the planet to the back
burner. In this book, Prashant Vaze, an environmental economist, distils
and builds on his experience of trying to live a low carbon life in
London.
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| Imagining
India: Ideas for the New Century by Nandan Nilekani, out 30 April
2009 |
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Indian
software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive
book about modern India. He reveals why India's huge population
has now become her greatest strength; how information technology
is bringing the benefits of globalization; why rapid urbanization
is transforming social and political life; and how we can learn
from India's difficult journey towards a single internal market.
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| India's
Global Powerhouses by Nirmalya Kumar, Published 1 March 2009 |
When
the Indian auto manufacturer Tata Motors bought the iconic Jaguar
and Land Rover brands complementing the Nano, its own innovative $2,500
car it opened up a new chapter in India's economic story. In the coming
years, such Indian multinationals as Bharat Forge, Hindalco, Infosys,
Mahindra, and Suzlon will increasingly be making acquisitions and
building their brands in Western markets.
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| 'THE
REAL DEAL' BY JAMES CAAN, PUBLISHED 18 SEPTEMBER 2008 |
James
Caan is a master of reinvention. Born as Nazim Khan in Pakistan, the
son on a textile merchant, he gives the reader his rag-trade to riches
story complete with tear-jerking estrangement and reunion, philanthropy
and healthy dose of schmaltzy business advice thrown in. His book
may be entitled "The Real Deal" but I am not sure he is
"The Real McCoy"! 'The Real Deal' is published on 18 September
2008.
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| MAKING
A FORTUNE: LEARNING FROM THE ASIAN PHENOMENON |
For
two decades, entrepreneurs have been eulogised in the popular press.
At a time when real heroes are hard to find, it is the entrepreneur
who has become the hero of free enterprise. With immigration a hot
topic of conversation, in this book Dr Spinder Dhaliwal lays out the
contribution of Asians in the UK in terms of wealth creation and employment.
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| DOING
BUSINESS WITH INDIA: 2ND EDITION, OUT MAR 2007 |
This
book is quite simply the best business book I have read in ages. Packed
with facts, case studies and anecdotal evidence, it highlights the
issues involved in dealing with India. Everything from legal, infrastructure,
economic and inward investment vehicles to showcasing the pharmaceutical
and energy sectors.
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| BOTTLED
FOR BUSINESS, OUT 7 FEB 2007 |
'Bottled
for Business' tells the inspirational success story of Karan Bilimoria
- the founder and Chief Executive of Cobra Beer who started his business
aged 27, with student debts of £20,000. Karan gives an insight
into how he has made Cobra one of the UK's fastest growing beer brands
and built it into a hugely successful global business in little more
than 15 years.
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| OUTSOURCING
TO INDIA BY MARK KOBAYSHI-HILLARY |
A
day does not pass without a newspaper report about yet another company
that has started outsourcing technology or other business processes
to India. Many corporate leaders seek to reduce their costs or improve
service quality, but not many understand India and some are confused
by clashes of culture.
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