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The year was 2004, and India's economy was booming. Around the same time, a nonbanking financial company applied for and received a license to operate as a private bank. Yes Bank was born. Its rise was phenomenal, and it soon became the fourth-largest private bank in the country, with approved permissions to operate in Singapore, London, and Dubai. The returns were also immense. That is, till the skeletons began tumbling out of the Yes Bank lockers. Stories of the bank's reckless lending were going around, and allegations of bribery and corruption became rife.

Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world. In The Joys of Compounding, the value investor Gautam Baid builds a holistic approach to value investing and philosophy from his wide-ranging...

In 1978, Nakul Anand joined ITC's hotel division as a general assistant trainee (GAT), becoming part of its first formal batch of hotel management trainees. In a world where everything from 'gastrique-laced entrees' to 'artisanal aperitifs' made him feel like an alien, it didn't take the...

'SUCCESS IS NOT A SINGLE PEAK, IT IS A SERIES OF ASCENTS.' On a freezing morning in January 1990, Avinash Kaul, seventeen, rode pillion on his father's scooter as they drove silently through the desolate streets of Srinagar, fleeing home with whatever they could carry. Displaced, he found...

An essential read for entrepreneurs, operators, and anyone trying to build and scale a business in India Build. Break. Adapt. Persevere. Sometime in early 2014, Albinder Singh Dhindsa set out to build a better way to deliver groceries across India-driven by urgency and belief, and with no...

Down But Not Out is a book about endurance. It tells the stories of founders who were knocked down, written off, even broken - and still found a way to stand again. Not tales of unicorns or easy wins, but of struggle, scar tissue, and the act of showing up one more day. Across three decades of...

GETTING RICH IS NOT JUST ABOUT LUCK; HAPPINESS IS NOT JUST A TRAIT WE ARE BORN WITH. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts?...

The world over, boards, CEOs, CHROs and top managements are united in their belief that managing talent is one of the most important aspects of running any business. And yet there seems to be no clarity on what constitutes 'talent' and how one should identify and nurture it. Traditional tools...

'In his favourite zone - the intersection of mythology and its connection to the corporate world - he examines the tenets of leadership with a throwback to familiar stories, albeit with a new lens... It's an eye opener.'- Storyboard18 'Draws on the worlds of many myths and legends... to give a...

'We don't have budgets to hire a chief marketing officer'. 'While I understand marketing, this digital marketing is not my cup of tea.' 'How do I know that the digital marketing agency I have hired is not taking me for a ride.' How many times have you heard these statements from start-up...

Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient (EQ) is increasingly being recognized as a key determinant to professional success in today's high-stress environment. Acclaimed as a prime mover on the subject, Emotional Intelligence at Work has seen four editions and has been translated into...

""The Enlightened Manager doesn't promise to make you a better leader in 30 days. What it does offer is more difficult to define: an inner path to genuine self-understanding as the basis for managing others."" --Management Issues ""Vishwanath Alluri is widely recognised for blending...

| WINNER OF THE GAJA CAPITAL BUSINESS BOOK PRIZE 2019 | 'Epic, sweeping and hard to put down. This iconic family dynasty needs to be appreciated globally - and this is the book that will do it.' - Michael Queen, Global Investment Professional & Member, Gaja Capital Business Book Prize Jury 'Warm...

WINNER OF THE 2020 TATA LITERATURE LIVE! BUSINESS BOOK AWARD From the bylanes of Kamalia and the rugged landscapes of Quetta in India of the 1940s which later became Pakistan, they escaped to the Partition-ravaged cities of Amritsar, Agra, Delhi and finally settled in Ludhiana with little more...

'Most startups die at the idea stage itself. And those that don't die this way, die soon after, in one of the many, many different ways startups are known to fail. But it doesn't have to be this way. There's no ironclad law of the universe driving the high failure rate of new comp anies.' In...

'Achieving net zero will be the most amazing thing humankind has ever done.' - Bill Gates In 2010, Bill Gates first came up with the term 'Innovating to Zero' to advocate a nuclear energy technology that would be safe and reliable, and have zero emissions. From its early use as a placeholder in...

If there's one place that is never devoid of excitement, it's the stock market. It is common to hear investors brag about the multibaggers they identified and the millions they earned with their sharp sense of investing, but ask them about their investing missteps and chances are they'll quickly...

When it comes to technology, mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction. While these concerns are legitimate, we need to equally account for the fact that technology affords young...

Ask anyone if they would like to be healthy or wealthy, and chances are that almost everyone will choose both instead of just one of the two. Now look around. How many of us manage to achieve both? Few. Is there a set of principles, which, when consistently applied, can help you attain both...

Whether you are a CEO of a multinational corporation or a small startup, you will face situations that require you to make tough decisions, inspire your team, and uphold ethical standards. In Dharma Tales for CEOs, author and corporate coach S. Prakash presents stories that originate from...