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Full-Stack Leadership

(Newly published book)

Over the years, we have found that leadership is expressed through three aspects or dimensions, each equally important – Leading Business, Leading Execution and Leading Self. The book will expand on these three aspects of leadership. A successful business leader has to attain effectiveness in all these three dimensions of leadership. They have to be what we call a ‘full stack’ leader.

For each dimension of leadership, the book identifies a set of values (beliefs and ideas) which should be internalized by leaders when they exercise their leadership. They are a set of beliefs that guide the decision-making and the actions of leaders. The book also identifies a set of principles that drive these values. Principles of leadership are objective truths that determine the outcomes of leadership behaviour. And for each principle, the book identifies a set of practices, or regular behaviors and actions, that needs to be followed by the leader to enable that principle fully. Thus, the book goes into the details of a total of around 48 principles and more than 200 practices.

The book is available for purchase at the sites mentioned below.

Flipkart; Amazon.com; Amazon.in; Notionpress

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Enterprise Agility

(co-authored with J. Veeraraaghavan and S. Sivaguru)

If you are a stakeholder or change agent looking at steering an organisation through an Agile transformation journey, this book is for you. It examines the specific practices that need to be adopted and enabled within the organization to fully realize the Values/Tantras of Agile. It does this by looking at the outcomes expected/desired by the three main stakeholders of a successful enterprise – Customers, Associates, and Shareholders – and describing the practices that drive these outcomes and their implementation strategies. The contents of the book are based on the authors’ discussions with various industry leaders who have implemented, driven or guided Agile transformations and with PM Power experts who have more than 1000 years of collective experience in the area. The outcomes and practices are presented as responses to certain situations and episodes that have arisen in a fictitious organisation that is a combined entity embodying various organisations that PM Power has worked with. The conversational style and the touch of humour makes reading easy.

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108 Facts About Sanskrit You Didn’t Know

The ancient heritage of India has come down to us through the medium of Sanskrit. Almost all our languages owe their being—directly or indirectly—to Sanskrit. There is a tremendous amount of literature in Sanskrit for us to enjoy. Sanskrit, as the earliest of the classical languages, has contributed immensely not only to other classical languages but also to current languages. Sanskrit is also the oldest language in the world, with attested literature stretching back to 6,000 years ago, and with a continuous tradition of use up to now. All this makes Sanskrit the bearer of Indian culture and truly our mother tongue. This book is an attempt to bring to Indians and others the great treasure that is Sanskrit. It gives readers an overall idea of what the Sanskrit language is; how ancient the language is; its contributions to the world; the origins of the language and how it is related to the other languages of the world; how it evolved into the currently spoken Indian languages and still continues to be India’s lingua franca; the great amount of literature available in the language; how to analyze and appreciate the language; and finally, how, we, in the modern era, can reclaim the language for ourselves.

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The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility

This book is primarily intended for leaders who are looking to take their organisations on the Agile Transformation journey and managers who will drive this transformation. It will alert them to what they can look forward to and what they need to look out for on this journey. The book is also intended for change agents (coaches and consultants) who help organisations progress on the transformation. The book will add to their experience set that will help them advise their clients in the best possible way.

The objective of this book is to help these people address the concerns of organizations as they try to reap benefits of moving to Agile; to bring to the intended readers the wealth of experience and wisdom about Agile and its implementation that coaches at PM Power have built up over the years.

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The First Aryan

A series of murders have taken place in Parsupur, the capital city of Parsuvarta. Kasyapa and Agastya, two students training to become priests, are asked by their guru to investigate the deaths. Around the same time, there is great turmoil brewing in the city-a palace coup and a battle for supremacy between the traditional Indra worshipers and the new sect of Varuna followers.
It is an age when Vedic gods are worshiped, religious sacrifices are performed regularly, commerce flourishes and kings are guided by their loyal head priests. But beneath this façade of order lie prejudices and political rivalries, jealousy and power games. This is why the murders, which at first seem to be unconnected, soon lead in the same direction. It is now up to Kasyapa and Agastya to find out the common thread and identify the killer.
The First Aryan is a one-of-its-kind murder mystery set in the Vedic times.

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Software Project Health

An epic is retold. The actors are familiar but the roles are different. Arjuna is a Program Manager responsible for delivering a set of projects to enhance the defence of the city of Hastinapura; Krishna his coach and mentor.

Arjuna and Krishna with a focus on means and not just the ends, together evolve a project health framework for effective delivery, assurance of outcomes and robust products. The end result is a comprehensive set of project Vital Signs and their manifestations and a 360-degree assessment approach – a framework for early warning to address the not-uncommon syndrome of projects being “in the pink of health till yesterday but in ICU today”.  

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