Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

The inspiring stories of 25 IIM Ahmedabad Graduates who chose to tread a path of their own making.

‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ is the story of 25 such IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose the rough road of entrepreneurship. They are diverse in age, in outlook and the industries they made a mark in. But they have one thing in common: they believed in the power of their dreams. This book seeks to inspire young graduates to look beyond placements and salaries. To believe in their dreams.

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The Indian CEO: A Portrait of Excellence

Recognizing the pivotal role of leadership in building sustainable corporations, this book analyzes the key qualities that go into the making of a successful CEO in the Indian business environment. Based on a landmark study which covered some of the most successful business leaders in India, The Indian CEO uses the framework developed by David McClelland of Harvard University, to determine key competencies necessary for Indian business leaders to steer their corporations in the rapidly changing business and social environments.

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What Self-Made Millionaires Really Think, Know & Do

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There are better ways to becoming a millionaire than trudging to your local store to buy that lottery ticket every week. It’s a well-known fact that your chances of winning are approximately 14 million to one. Despite that, there are still those who believe that the lottery represents their best chance of personal success and financial freedom. Not true.

The people that are successful in life know that they must do more to have more, and become masters of their own destiny. They must change. They must act. This book is for them….

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BIGSHOTS: Business the Bill Gates Way

Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the techno-savant tycoons. His grip on the PC software market has made him the richest man on the planet. But Gates’wealth and technical brilliance is only part of his fascination. His remarkable business vision and obsessive desire to win has created a headership style that radically different to anything the business world has seen before.

But you won’t find many clues to the Gates’ management or leadership techniques in business schools. So where do we turn to find out how this guy ticks? Beneath the hype and counter-hype, what sort of man is Bill Gates really?

Brought completely up to date for this new edition, Business the Bill Gates Way not only reveals the secrets of Gates’ remarkable success but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career. From hiring very smart people to loving what you make, and from crushing your competitors to never, ever, ever taking your eye off the ball, you have in your hands the secret of phenomenal success.

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The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford

An economist’s version of The Way Things Work , this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices.
The Undercover Economist is for anyone who’s wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can’t seem to find a decent second-hand car, or how to outwit Starbucks. This book offers the hidden story behind these and other questions, as economist Tim Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, and coffee chains–to name just a few–are vacuuming money from our wallets. Harford punctures the myths surrounding some of today’s biggest controversies, including the high cost of health-care; he reveals why certain environmental laws can put a smile on a landlord’s face; and he explains why some industries can have high profits for innocent reasons, while in other industries something sinister is going on. Covering an array of economic concepts including scarce resources, market power, efficiency, price gouging, market failure, inside information, and game theory, Harford sheds light on how these forces shape our day-to-day lives, often without our knowing it.
Showing us the world through the eyes of an economist, Tim Harford reveals that everyday events are intricate games of negotiations, contests of strength, and battles of wits. Written with a light touch and sly wit, The Undercover Economist turns “the dismal science” into a true delight.

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Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business – Peter Lynch &

Mutual-fund superstar Peter Lynch and author John Rothchild explain the basic principles of investing and business in a primer that will enlighten and entertain anyone who is high-school age or older.

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing — the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market — aren’t taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences.

For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities are everywhere. The average high-school student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonald’s, the Gap, and the Body Shop. Nearly every teenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Every student studies American history,
but few realize that our country was settled by European colonists financed by public companies in England and Holland — and the basic principles behind public companies haven’t changed in more than 300 years.

In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high-school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.

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Investment Philosophies – Aswath Damodaran

This book deals with the philosophy behind the best investment strategies of all time. Investment philosophies are as unique as the individuals who practice them. In his latest endeavor, investment expert and NYU Stern School of Business professor Aswath Damodaran goes beyond investment strategies and looks at the individual underlying philosophies that support these techniques. He explores all of the time tested investment philosophies that have worked over the long run, and discusses the greatest investors who made these philosophies so famous. “Investment Philosophies” will expose readers to a wide range of investment philosophies so as to give them a sense of what drives investors in each philosophy, how they attempt to put these philosophies into practice, and what determines ultimate success.

In doing this, Damodaran provides an unbiased forum for the presentation of different investment philosophies, while supplying the tools the definition and measurement of risk, the notion of market efficiency and how to test for inefficiencies, and the components and determinants of trading costs and the empirical evidence for readers to make their own judgments on the investment philosophy that fits their specific investment goals and views of how markets work. Filled with valuable insights and expert advice, this book reveals various investment philosophies to a general audience of investors, not purely to professional investors. Aswath Damodaran (New York, NY) is Professor of Finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

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Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence – Michael Masterson

The advice and concepts outlined in Automatic Wealth are best suited for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence. Rather than encourage readers to quit their day jobs today and launch into a new scheme tomorrow, Masterson shows how to turn your skills and experience into significantly more money within seven to fifteen years. For those just getting by, he details how to get the biggest pay raises now and how to move into more lucrative ventures in the near future. For those with some savings, he offers specific advice on building equity and increasing net worth significantly and quickly. Since Masterson made his millions starting and developing small businesses, he encourages people to become entrepreneurs themselves and discusses which kinds of ventures to invest in and which ones to avoid. He also stresses the importance of developing multiple income streams, offering chapters on real estate, stocks and bonds, consulting, direct mail, and other opportunities.

In addition to concrete steps, Masterson also writes about attitude and expectations. His first step, in fact, is to take an honest and realistic assessment of your current financial situation and prepare yourself to change habits. He stresses that you must make getting rich a priority and devote the necessary time to it–act immediately and don’t wait until the perfect moment to change your situation (hint: the perfect moment rarely arrives.). Clearly written and filled with informative anecdotes and examples, Automatic Wealth will not make you a millionaire overnight. It could, however, make you one in a decade, and that’s a timeline most people can deal with. –Shawn Carkonen

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Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (Set of 2 vol.)

Review from Library Journal
Covering accounting, management, marketing, law, finance, and economics, this set aims “to summarize the body of knowledge that we know as business in a single place and in language accessible to the layperson.” Special emphasis is placed on careers and ethics in various areas of business, such as “Careers in Finance” and “Ethics in Finance.” The 300-plus alphabetically arranged entries do more than simply define a term; for example, the entry for accounting also describes its history, principles, and agencies, shows how students can enter the profession, and provides cross references to related topics such as “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.” All the entries are in fact cross-referenced and include bibliographies offering print resources and web sites. In addition to business terms, legislation such as “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977″ and agencies, including the “General Accounting Office,” have featured entries. An alphabetical index is included, with numbers in bold face indicating main entries. Many of the entries are illustrated with photographs, tables, and figures. Designed for a wide audience ranging from high school students to lay readers to practitioners, this work is highly recommended for school, academic, and public libraries. Lucy Heckman St. John’s Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY

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Jeffrey K. Liker, «The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer»

From the Back Cover

“This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business.”

–Gary Convis, Managing Office of Toyota

With a market capitalization greater than the value of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler combined, Toyota is also, (by far), the world’s most profitable automaker. Toyota’s secret weapon is Lean production–the revolutionary approach to business processes that it invented in the 1950’s and has spent decades perfecting. Today businesses around the world are implementing Toyota’s radical system for speeding up processes, reducing waste, and improving quality.

The Toyota Way, explain’s Toyota’s unique approach to Lean–the 14 management principles and philosophy that drive Toyota’s quality and efficiency-obsessed culture. You’ll gain valuable insights that can be applied to any organization and any business process, whether in services or manufacturing. Professor Jeffrey Liker has been studying Toyota for twenty years, and was given unprecedented access to Toyota executives, employees and factories, both in Japan and the United States, for this landmark work. The book is full of examples of the 14 fundamental principles at work in the Toyota culture, and how these principles create a culture of continuous learning and improvement. You’ll discover how the right combination of long-term philosophy, process, people, and problem solving can transform your organization into a Lean, learning enterprise–the Toyota Way.

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