Shaping the Future: Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond - Hardcover

Maira, Arun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471479195 ISBN 13: 9780471479192

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

India is a country of enormous contradictions. On the one hand, it is one of the fastest-growing leaders in the new economy, with burgeoning technological prowess and a myriad of exciting business opportunities. At the same time, it is burdened with enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure and a labyrinthine bureaucracy. This text, by one of India's leading executives, discusses the country's economic transformation and addresses key issues that will not only affect companies investing in India but individuals struggling to cope with these changes. Using techniques of scenario planning and organizational learning, Maira guides the reader through the complex structures of Indian business and society and introduces a new approach to change. Not only a new look at transforming India, this book also allows businesses and organizations to approach change through a new model: connecting, learning and acting.

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About the Author

Arun Maira is Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India. His work spans over 30 years in creating and transforming organizations. He has consulted clients across a wide variety of industries on issues of strategy and organization. He is also an active member of BCG?s Organization Practice Area.

From the Back Cover

As with any other emerging nation, India has the potential to become an economic powerhouse. But for decades, the country has been perceived as a huge but inapt state, facing severe economic and organizational challenges. Many problems curtail the progress of this nation. Besides a labyrinthine bureaucracy, economic poverty, an exploding population rate and a crumbling infrastructure, one of the areas in which growth has been hampered is leadership. When multinational corporations are investing, the challenges multiply, as the companies often do not have either the patience or the proper leadership techniques for dealing with the unique problems of the country. Rarely, though, are the government?s leaders applying the best techniques, either.

As the world?s business climate globalizes and national economies become closely affiliated, India looms today as one of the largest countries in the world to embrace this evolution. Dovetailed with a huge appetite for infrastructure and a vast pool of skilled manpower, it is an enormous market the rest of the world cannot afford to ignore.

Looking at India?s economic transformation of late, Arun Maira, Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India, addresses key factors that will affect companies investing there. Getting to the root of India?s problems, he uses techniques of scenario thinking and organizational learning to guide the reader through the complex structures of Indian business and society. He examines the breadth of the problems facing the country, without losing sight of the importance of the human component. This book provides solutions that require many groups with conflicting interests to work together, encouraging action by citing successes that use this collaborative approach and the benefits that they would entail for the future of India?s economy. Weaving throughout the book is also a close examination of leadership issues, exploring a new approach to change that can be adopted by leaders in emerging nations around the world.

Shaping the Future explains how the diverse elements of society in India, and any emerging nation, can work together to mold a better future.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471479195
• ISBN 13: 9780471479192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300