Doodles on Leadership Experiences within and beyond Tata

Category Non-Fiction
Format Hardcover
Imprint Rupa
Price 500

ISBN: 978-93-5333-524-3
Pages: 216 pages
Date: 1st July

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Doodles on Leadership is based on the metaphor of ‘balconies of leadership’. As a leader climbs
upwards in his or her career, the perspective changes from the transactional to the corporate and, further on, to a societal view. Moving away from the cut and thrust of operational action, this book reflects on a leader’s journey through the changing perspectives that come with each stage. It demonstrates how a leader’s mind engages progressively with broader matters, rather than staying confined to only those of his company and its operations.
The author argues that this widening engagement with society at large is most satisfying for business leaders, and emphasizes the role that business leaders can play in matters concerning nation and society. It demonstrates the practical way business leaders can contribute to the world, each based on his or her domain of expertise.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

R. Gopalakrishnan is an author, speaker and a corporate advisor. He studied physics at
Calcutta University, engineering at IIT Kharagpur, and attended the Advanced Management
Program at Harvard Business School. Gopalakrishnan has served as Chairman, Unilever Arabia;
Managing Director, Brooke Bond Lipton; Vice-chairman, Hindustan Lever; and Director, Tata Sons and several other Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of Castrol India and Hemas Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka. Gopal mentors a few start-ups and is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking. Some of his bestselling books are Six Lenses: Vignettes of Success, Career and Relationships and A Comma in a Sentence.