Leadership Beyond the Playbook: Craft Your Own Path. Lead with Impact - Hardcover

Kudva, Roopa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0143476696 ISBN 13: 9780143476696

Publisher: Penguin Business, 2025

Synopsis

What kind of leader will you become?

Whether you’re in a corporate role, building a startup, or preparing for your next move, this book will help you chart a leadership path that’s entirely your own.

Leadership Beyond the Playbook offers no neatly packaged lists or formulas. Instead, it helps you become a better leader—with clarity, sharper judgment, and greater intention.

Drawing on decades of experience across corporate, startup, and impact sectors, Roopa Kudva distills her insights from leading organizations, serving on top Indian boards, and contributing to public policy through regulatory committees. She explores what it truly takes to lead today—strategic thinking, execution, communication, stakeholder alignment, resilience, and purpose.

Highly relevant and practical, the book tackles the realities of modern leadership—from AI and generational shifts to mental health and meaning at work—and includes tools you can apply immediately.

True to its philosophy, Leadership Beyond the Playbook features a DIY Leadership Kit to help you design your own 90-day action plan.

No acronyms. No frameworks. No slogans. Just leadership for tomorrow.

About this title

About the Author

Roopa Kudva is a distinguished business leader, early-stage investor and board director with nearly four decades of experience in the financial sector. Known for transformative leadership and a commitment to impact, she has built a career marked by innovation and advocacy for inclusive development. As chief executive officer of Crisil, Roopa transformed India’s premier credit rating agency into a global analytical firm, growing market capitalization fourfold and tripling revenues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Business
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143476696
• ISBN 13: 9780143476696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272