Alibaba’s World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the face of Global Business
Porter Erisman
Pan Macmillan
Rs499
Pp 242
Erisman, one of Alibaba’s first western employees, shows how Jack Ma, a Chinese schoolteacher who twice failed his college entrance exams, rose from obscurity to found Alibaba and lead it from a struggling start-up to the world’s most dominant e-commerce player. He shares stories of weathering the dotcom crash, facing down eBay and Google, negotiating with the Chinese government, and enduring the misguided advice of experts, all to build the behemoth that’s poised to sweep the e-commerce world today.
The Value Elephant:
The Head and Tail of Wealth Creation
Sanjay Kulkarni
Penguin
Rs799
Pp 314
In The Value Elephant, Sanjay Kulkarni demonstrates how CEOs, professional managers and owners of businesses can ride the ‘value elephant’ to make businesses more valuable, regardless of ownership and industry segment. Invoking the experiences of several business leaders who have created lasting wealth for their investors, The Value Elephant reveals what it takes to successfully create value in the
Indian environment.
Work rules!
Laszlo Bock
Hachette
Rs599
Pp 406
A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Laszlo Bock’s Work Rules! offers both a new philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent and ensuring the brightest and best prosper. Bock takes us inside one of history’s most explosively successful businesses to reveal why Google is consistently rated one of the best places to work in the world, distilling 15 years of worker R&D into counterintuitive principles.
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