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They say the ‘pen is mightier than the sword’. The power of words is so intense it
can cut through systems, strategies, operations and perception of masses. That’s
the force of verbal expression. When words are expressed with clarity, vision and
profound perceptions they evolve into management thoughts and principles. Name
People with this gift then become what we have phrased ‘Management Gurus’.
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(1) C.K. Prahalad e-Publishing

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should be on the top of your list. He needs no introduction; every management
student in India and internationally knows the name C.K. Prahalad. He is known
not only for his prolific works also for his management perceptions and strategies.

CK Prahalad is a professor, researcher, speaker, author and prominent consultant.

Business Week has called him “a brilliant teacher at the University of Michigan”
and also described him as “maybe the most influential thinker on business strategy
today.”

In addition to serving as the Harvey C. Freuhauf Professor of Business

Administration at the University Of Michigan Business School, Prahalad specializes
in corporate strategy and the role of top management in large, diversified,
multinational corporations.

In 1994 he co-authored the bestseller, Competing for the Future, with Gary
Hamel. Translated into 14 languages, it was named the Best Selling Business Book
of the Year in 1994. Prahalad is particularly well known for the work he has
conducted with fellow strategy expert Gary Hamel. This includes the articles The
Core Competence of the Corporation (Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1990),
Competing in the New Economy: Managing Out of Bounds (Strategic Management
Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, March, 1996) as well as the bestselling book Competing for
the Future: Breakthrough Strategies for Seizing Control of Your Industry and
Creating the Markets of Tomorrow (1994).

He has won numerous awards. The most recent include the McKinsey Prize three
times, the SMR-PWC award, and the ANBAR Electronic Citation of Excellence.

A prominent world-class guru, Professor Prahalad has consulted with the world's
foremost companies, such as Ahlstrom, AT&T, Cargill, Citicorp, Eastman Chemical,
Kodak, Oracle, Philips, Quantum, Revlon, Steelcase, and Unilever. In addition, he
serves on the Board of Directors of NCR Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and
the World Resources Institute and services on the Board of Directors of NCR
Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and the World Resources Institute.

His latest book, ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty
Through Profits’, proves that the future will develop from serving the poor,
because the innovations that are developed are superior-- top quality, low price,
high volume and world-scale. Only the best innovations will work for both sides of
the equation, those in poverty and those in the “developed” countries.

Books by C.K. Prahalad

 The fortune at the bottom of the Pyramid (August 25, 2004)

 Competing for the future (Co-authored with Gary Hamel)
 The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers
(2004 - co-authored with Venkat Ramaswamy)
 In search of excellence
 Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision (1987)

C.K. Prahalad is also the author of numerous award-winning articles. Harvard

Business Review awarded the McKinsey Prize to him three times for the following
articles:-

 "The End of Corporate Imperialism", co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal

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(1998)
 "The Core Competence of the Corporation", co-authored with Gary Hamel
(1990)
 "Strategic Intent", also co-authored with Gary Hamel (1989)
 "The New Frontier of Experience Innovation" published in Sloan
Management Review won the SMR-PWC award for the best paper published
in 2003
 "Weak Signals vs. Strong Paradigms", published in the Journal of
Marketing Research (1995) was awarded the 1997 ANBAR Electronic
Citation of Excellence
 "The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and
Performance" (1986), co-authored with Richard Bettis, was selected the
Best Article published in the Strategic Management Journal for the period
1980-88
 "The Role of Core Competencies in the Corporation" (1993) received the
1994 Maurice Holland Award as the Best Paper published in Research
Technology Management in 1993
 "A Strategy for Growth: The Role of Core Competence in the Corporation"
won the European Foundation for Management Award in 1993

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(2) Gita Piramal

More often than not, a journalist’s viewpoint is considered to be critical, biased and
dynamic. But a journalist with a PhD in business history is a potentially intense
combination. This profile describes, Gita Piramal an author who has written for
many years on the corporate sector for leading Indian and international
publications such as the Financial Times and the Economic Times, and is a
consulting editor of the World Executive’s Digest. She also has been involved in
the making of television programmes on Indian business for the BBC and Plus
Channel. In 1986, she co-authored India’s Industrialists, and in 1991 contributed
to Business and Politics in India—A historical perspective, published by the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She divides her time between London and
Mumbai.

Through her works, she describes the Indian corporate sector with Indian historical
and political references as the foundation. How earlier systems have an influence
on contemporary operations and radical changes or ‘Business Mantras’ required to
keep abreast in this dynamic environment.

Gita Piramal is one of India’s foremost business writers. She is now the managing
editor of The Smart Manager, India’s first world-class management magazine.

Books by Gita Piramal

 World Class in India: A Casebook of Companies in Transformation

(4/15/2002)
 Business Legends(4/1/1999)
 Managing Radical Change(co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal).
 Business Mantras
 Business Maharajas

(3) Sumantra Ghoushal

If you attempt to visualize a mentor, an author and a consultant in one being you

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are sure to find one personality, Sumantra Ghoushal. Born in India, educated in
the US and currently living in Europe, he is a teacher, author and consultant in the
field of international management. He is also founding dean of the Indian School of
Business in Hyderabad, a new venture jointly sponsored by Northwestern
University and the London Business School.

He has published eight books, over forty-five articles and several award-winning
case studies. The book “Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution”, co-
authored with Christopher A. Bartlett, has been listed as one of the fifty most
influential management books and they have become one of the world's most
respected business thinkers.

His most recent work focuses on the need to develop strategy which encompasses
people. He has been critical of the current fad for knowledge management.

Books by Sumantra Ghoushal

 A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower,

Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Timepublished on 7/1/2004
 World Class in India: A Casebook of Companies in
Transformationpublished on 4/15/2002
 Managing Across Borders : The Transnational Solution (1988)*
 Transnational Management (1990)*
 Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation (1993)*
 The Individualized Corporation (1997)*
 World Class in India: A Casebook of Companies in Transformation
 Managing Radical Change(co-authored with Gita Piramal)

* (co-authored with Christopher A. Bartlett)

(4) Ram Charan

If you want to know how to strip down a concept to its core meaning and then put
it into action, you should consider the works of Ram Charan. He is a highly
acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author. Ram has coached some of the
world's most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at
companies like GE, KLM, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Home Depot
and Verizon.

Ram is a favourite among executive educators. He won the Bell Ringer (best
teacher) award at GE's famous Crotonville Institute. He won similar awards at
Wharton and Northwestern. He was among Business Week's top ten resources for
in-house executive development programs.

Apart from authoring fine books, he also tailors his books for specific client
companies such as Gateway, Ford, and EDS. His articles have been published in
Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Information Week, Leader to Leader,
Director's Monthly, Directorship, The Corporate Board and USA Today. Ram is a
director of Austin Industries and The Six Sigma Academy.

He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He serves

as a co-host for the Fortune Forum on Corporate Governance and also serves on
the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on
Corporate Governance.

He is known for his practical, real world perspective. His expertise entails areas of

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business like: Profitable Growth, Business Acumen, Leadership, Execution:

Discipline of Getting Things Done, Tools for Changing a Social System, Global
Matrix Organization, Innovation, Corporate Governance, Succession & Leadership
Pipeline, Building Top Management Teams.

Books by Ram Charan

 Confronting Reality (October 2004)

 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Execution reached
number one on the Wall Street Journal list, and has been on the New York
Time's best seller list for more than fifty weeks.
 What the CEO Wants You to Know
 Boards at Work
 Every Business Is a Growth Business and Profitable Growth.
 Profitable growth is everyone’s business

(5) Arindham Chaudhuri

Speaking of contemporary business thinkers, another fine entrepreneur, educator,

author and enterprising personality is Arindham Chaudhuri.

Professor Chaudhuri is the Dean, Centre for Economic Research & Advanced
Studies at IIPM (The Indian Institute of Planning & Management, New Delhi). In
the year 1996 he founded Planman Consulting which is now one of the fastest
growing Indian Management Consulting Firms. After being associated with the
production and marketing of two Bengali movies, in the year 2001 he formally
launched Planman Life: A fully dedicated production and communications venture.

His latest book ‘Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch’ for which he got an
unprecedented seven figure record advance has created a new benchmark in India
by selling more than 80,000 copies in just 8 months! It has been in all national
best seller lists from the first week of inception, till date.

As a management consultant he specializes in the areas of Strategic Vision,

Leadership, Social Sector Consulting, Comparative Management Techniques and
Global Opportunities & Threat Analysis.

His contribution to the field of management studies in India can be found in the
iconoclastic “Theory ‘ i ’ Management” which he has developed for India Inc.
“Theory ‘i’ Management” is about India centric management ideas. For the last
few years he has been conducting workshops on Leadership and Strategic Vision
exclusively for CEOs, MDs, Directors and Presidents from the corporate sector.
From the Managing Director of Hero Motors to the President of Tata Chemicals,
from the Executive President of A.V. Birla Group to the CEO of Ernst & Young…
have all taken leadership training workshops from him. As a celebrated speaker
he is regularly invited to speak at various annual conferences and national
conventions. He also happens to be highest paid speaker in the country.

An economist by passion and education, during Bill Clinton’s historic visit to India
he launched his Great Indian Dream -: India can beat America, a series of
seminars for every Indian. Held in all the metros of India, these seminars had
thousands of people pouring in from all walks of life. In these seminar’s he not
only highlights the inherent strengths of the Indian culture but also talks about an
alternative resource mobilization and allocation package for an Indian turnaround.
To facilitate social activities based on this he has started the Great Indian Dream
Foundation in memory of his brother Aurobindo Chaudhuri.

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He was recently rated as one of the 50 leading thinkers in South Asia by Wilton
Park (an organisation supported by the European Commission and British foreign
office).

Further, he was awarded the Academic Gold Medal while completing the Post
Graduate Diploma in Planning and Management from IIPM. Prof. Chaudhuri was
awarded “Management Guru 2000 Award” by Chennai based Om Venkatesa
Society which annually honours management experts.

Books by Arindham Chaudhuri

 Count your chickens before they hatch

 The Great Indian Dream

(6) Promod Batra

Have you ever been in a situation when your need a trigger to propel those
business thoughts? The answer lies in a think tank that provides distilled wisdom
of finest minds, ‘Management Thoughts’. This book was written by Promod Batra,
which was a new concept in 1991 and the first of its kind in the world. It is a
collection of simple management thoughts, supplemented with full page
illustrations by Mickey Patel, a cartoonist of repute. It has sold over 2,00,000
copies in India and abroad a record by itself.

Promod Batra got his professional training with General Mills Inc., Minneapolis ,
Minnesota, and the Soyabean Council of America. On return to India he joined
Escorts Limited in 1963, and retired as Chief General Manager in 1996. His tenure
with the Escorts Group included his assignment as Chief Administrator at Escorts
Heart Institute & Research Centre for six years. He is now devoting full time to
writing, publishing and selling books on Management of Self, Family Employees
and Customers, and conducting Attitudinal Seminars based on his books

A co-author with Promod Batra is Vijay Batra, the first non-Japanese to join
Kankaku Securities as a lifetime employee. In 1994, he was promoted to Vice
President of the New York branch. During his tenure with Kankaku Securities, he
was directly involved with various Japanese and American companies. From 1997
to 1998, he returned to India for a one year period to study the Indian situation
with the objective to create seminar and training programmes suitable for Indian
professionals. Vijay Batra has succeeded in creating a relationship with PHP, a
think tank affiliated with Matsushita Electric Industry. The relationship with PHP
will allow Think Inc. to introduce fundamentals of Japanese management to Indian
professionals.

Books by Promod Batra

 Management Thoughts
 Born to be Happy
 Born to Win
 Cows Don’t Give Milk
 The Family
 Management Articles
 Management Ides in Action
 Management Think Tank
 Management Wisdom
 Pearls of Wisdom for Managers
 Pearls of Wisdom for Happy Living

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 Selling is a Noble Profession

 Simple ways to manage stress
 When the customer has a problem
 Simple ways to make your boss succeed
 Management Thought Starters (co-authored with Vijay Batra)
 Profitable Passion discovers the spy (co-authored with Vijay Batra)

(7) Shiv Khera

In this dog-eat-dog business world, if you are not self motivated, self confident
and unique, you WILL be trampled over. At such times look into the works of the
distinguished management guru and motivator, Shiv Khera.

His gospel:- "Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently”

Shiv Khera is the founder of Qualified Learning Systems Inc. An educator,

business consultant, a much sought after speaker and a successful entrepreneur.
He has taken his dynamic personal message around the world. Shiv has been
recognized as a "Louis Marchesi Fellow" by the Round Table Foundation. His client
list includes the who’s who of the corporate world.

He has authored three bestsellers, amongst other books. His first book “You Can
Win”, which came out in 1998, has sold over a million copies worldwide. His
second book “Living With Honour” hit the stands in August 2003, becoming an
instant bestseller. Then within a span of six months in February 2004, his third
book “Freedom Is Not Free” was released, also to become a bestseller.

His first two books are on an individualistic level, where he defines the winning
edge as achieving excellence rather than perfection, as excellence paves the way
for progress. He also conveys that it is better to be honourable than to be
honoured. His work offers direction for living with pride in a cluttered
environment. His latest book concentrates on society. Here he firmly believes that
a progressive society is the basis for individual progress of its people.

Transforming his years of experience as a motivator into a practical tool, he has

developed a core program/workshop known as the Blueprint for Success (BPS).
This program motivates people to recognize their true potential and gain success -
personally and professionally.

Books by Shiv Khera

 You Can Win (1998)

 Living With Honour (August 2003)
 Freedom Is Not Free (February 2004)
 Attitude Determines Altitude
 Attitude – the key to success
 Discipline your way to freedom
 Ethics of Values
 Winner’s Edge
 Winning Strategies

Apart from the prominent business thinkers mentioned above, India also presents
other management thinkers who have a substantial influence on business minds
and operations. To name a few:-

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(8) Venkatram Ramaswamy

Co-opting Customer Competence (co-authored with C.K. Prahalad)

(9) Vijay Vishwanath

The Art of Developing Leaders at Kraft

(10) Partha Bose

Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy

(11) Rita Bhimani

Corporate Peacock

Face Up!

(12) Jeetendra Jain

Sack the CEO!

(13) Ashwath Damodaran

Corporate Finance

Damodaran on Valuation

Investment Valuation

The phrase “Management Guru’ describes a person who is intellectual,

experienced, ingenious and a person who develops business perspectives that
provide beneficial outlooks and practices. With reference to the adage ‘An idea is
only a thought until it is materialised’, the most successful Business Thinkers are
those who have ensured the successful implementation of their thoughts.

In the past, the benefit of such resourceful business practices was limited to only
those people who were privileged to have communication links with
knowledgeable business tycoons. But currently in India, the exposure has
broadened. Perspectives and practices of Indian business personalities are now
made available to almost anyone in the form of workshops and seminars. So with
an open mind, think ‘WOW’, act now and pay attention and participate with our
Management Personalities who are willing to impart their knowledge.

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 The Fortune at The Bottom of The Pyramid - CK Prahalad

 What's This India Business?- Offshoring and Outsourcing - Paul Davies
 Offshore Ready- Strategies to Plan & Profit - Stuart Morstead and Greg
Blount

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 The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

 Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch - Arindam Choudhary
 The Future of Work - Thomas Malone
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