HOW TO HELP AN ELEPHANT MAKE A U-TURN?: A NEW APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP AND TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

Category Non-Fiction
Format HBK
Imprint
Price 595

ISBN: 978-81-291-3564-3
Pages: 288 pages
Date: December 2014

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In How to Help an Elephant Make a U-turn, G.K. Jayaram, the first Chairman of Infosys, offers the ‘3+5 Transcendent Leadership’ model as the most effective way of creating leaders who will help organizations, corporations and societies swiftly execute transformational change. He shows us why and how this new breed of leaders—the transcendent leaders, as Jayaram describes them—will inspire action from followers at every level of an organization.
Illustrated and enlivened throughout by insights from leading business leaders, this step-by-step guide will help you become a transcendent leader. One who has the ability to build a cohesive and effective team naturally and knows how to adapt to the ever-changing environment in order to achieve remarkable things.
Packed with in-depth research and easily actionable ideas, How to Help an Elephant Make a U-turn will put you on the road to becoming a great leader.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Dr G.K. Jayaram is the founder and managing director of the Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID), Bangalore. He was the first Chairman of Infosys, and the Founding Director of the award-winning Infosys Leadership Institute. Jayaram has had a four-decade-long career in the consulting and corporate worlds as well as a decade in the development sector, in the US and India. He co-founded a software firm in the US, worked at Arthur D. Little Inc., and Coopers and Lybrand, taught at Stanford Executive Development Program and the Naval Postgraduate School.
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