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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Virtual Teams
Critical Skills For Developing High-peforming Teams In A Virtual Environment This book outlines the critical skills for developing high performance teams in a virtual environment. It will help set performance goals and clarify direction for team members that may be geographically dispersed, from different disciplines, from different departments, and even from different organizations. By using modern technology, the best and brightest people can be brought together. These teams face the challenge of developing a sense of trust and collaboration without the benefit of daily face-to-face contact. The success of virtual teams requires not only that the technology is in place to sustain their progress, but that the essential elements of high-performing teams be developed in organizations throughout the world.
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workf
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future will show employers faced with a lean, post-downsizing organization in the midst of a tight labor market, how to develop and implement hiring solutions. Employers should no longer recruit for the long term, but to get the job done today, tomorrow, and next week. The key to continued success for companies now is the ability to adapt rapidly to new circumstances. Staffing may have to expand quickly in one skill area, or contract quickly in another—or do both at the same time. Strategies for staffing must therefore be geared to this reality. The best practices outlined in this pocket guide are presented as keys and processes supplemented by worksheets and checklists intended to give your organization the advantage when it comes time to quickly and effectively bring in the talent you need.
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The Sins of the Father
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for him to prove his innocence would be to reveal his true identity - something that he has sworn never to do in order to protect the woman he loves. Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels to New York, leaving their son behind in England, having decided she'll do whatever it takes to find the man she was to marry - unwilling to believe that he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece in Bristol for over a year. In Jeffrey Archer's epic novel, family loyalties are stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the boardrooms of Manhattan. Join the great storyteller on a journey where there are no stop signs, no cul-de-sacs and no dead ends.
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Chicken Soup for the Indian Couple's Soul
If you are a real romantic, this is definitely the book for you. Chicken Soup for the Indian Couple's Soul tells stories about new beginnings, old lovers, love that lasts forever, fate, destiny, and more. With chapters on find- ing each other, intimacy, commitment, understanding, and overcoming obstacles, readers will find inspiration whether they're beginning a new relationship, hoping to work through a difficult one, or trying to recognise extraordinary moments in their lives. Whether single, separated or someone's spouse, ev- eryone wants to find and keep that elusive thing called love, and this book will inspire you to renew that search for your soul mate, or open your heart a little more to the one you already have.
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Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul At Work
Work and career are important parts of one's life, whether one is building a business, employed in a call centre, or practicing medicine. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work has gathered a rich treasure chest of experiences and inspiring tales that share the daily courage, compassion and creativity that occur in workplaces everywhere. The 101 stories in this book will encourage and recharge you with tales of heartwarming camaraderie, inspirational breakthroughs, courageous leadership and synergetic teamwork. This powerful book gives you new options, new ways to succeed and, above all, a new love and appreciation for yourself, your job and those around you.
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The Reluctant Detective
"A humorous story." Kay, aka Kanan Mehra, is a thirty-something suburban housewife, and young mother with a penchant for sticking her curious nose into things she definitely, absolutely and certainly shouldn’t go near. When a couple of corpses turn up in quick succession in her neighbourhood, she teams up with her detective friend, Runa, in a half-hearted attempt to find the murderers, only to suspect that perhaps the detective business doesn’t quite become her. A hilarious account of how not to get involved in other people’s murders, The Reluctant Detective is every school-gate mom, searching for a purpose to her life beyond kitty lunches, shopping and fish pedicures.
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Learning To Live Again
After the success of the Marathi book ?Muktangan Chi Goshta?, the story of Muktangan De-addiction Centre in Pune, narrated by its founder Anil Awachat, we bring you this bestseller book in English . This book talks about the efforts taken by this institute to cure those with addiction and to enable them to lead a normal life again. Muktangan which has completed 25 years is a path-breaking experiment which factored in the Indian social milieu while arriving at rehabilitation methods. It was a formula that presupposed the co-operation of the families of the affected patients. It placed the human being at the center of the treatment, thereby relying less on medical aid.
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Pathways To Light
After the tremendous success of the authentic autobiography of the Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr. Prakash Amte in Marathi language ?Prakashwata?, we bring you this bestseller book in English. Dr. Manda and Dr. Prakash Amte, the son and daughter-in-law of Baba Amte, have upheld his legacy of community welfare and have faced immense challenges for the upliftment of tribals. They have worked hard to give the tribals medical facilities and educational opportunities. This is the story of sturdy determination to overcome harsh obstacles of nature and lifestyles of the Adivasis and the work done by this couple for their development.
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Painting The Future: A Tales of Everyday Magic Nov
Jonathan Langley's life took a devastating turn when he lost his eyesight to a rare illness. Once a successful painter and printmaker, Jonathan now lives in complete darkness, rarely leaving his apartment and angry at the world. When he encounters his precocious 11-year- old neighbor, Lupe, the two form an unlikely friendship. Her cheerful presence shatters his hardened exterior, revealing a gentle man struck by tragedy. Lupe leads him to a fresh perspective by showing him the power of kindness, compassion, and love. Based on the celebrated teachings of Louise Hay, Painting the Future explores the power of positive thinking in healing past struggles and learning to live a joyful, heart-centred life.
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LOSER: Life Of a Software Engineer
What's common between outsourcing and Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America?How are arranged marriages related to the Software Development Life Cycle? For you to command better appraisals, what should’ve your parents named you? Why does your Project Manager always give you a new task just when you’re about to sign off for the day? Why are dumb, attractive software engineers always sent onsite? In Life Of A Software EngineeR (LOSER), author Dipen Ambalia offers some hilarious answers to these questions and more, having struggled through years of terrible appraisals, dumb instructions, Bell Curves and belles’ curves.
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Anna: 13 Days That Awakened India
Anna Hazare's fast unto death in August 2011, demanding the enactment of strong Lokpal Bill, was a watershed moment in post-independence India. Coming soon after a slew of corruption exposes, the movement galvanized an increasingly disenchanted middle class nothing had in decades. Well-known Hindi journalist Ashutosh weaves together the story of the thirteen days that changed India. He had a ringside view of the developments, stationed as he was at the Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi, the venue of the fast, and had intimate access to the two warring parties: the Congress government at the Centre and Team Anna. Evoking the Jayaprakash Narayan movement and Gandhi's satyagraha, Ashutosh mines the history of India's post-independence politics to understand the phenomenon that is Anna Hazare. About The Author Ashutosh is one of Hindi journalism’s best-known faces. He started his career with Aaj Tak and is currently managing editor at IBN 7.
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Urban Shots: The Love Collection
31 love stories by 27 authors Comprising thirty-one love stories by twenty-seven authors, Urban Shots: Love Collection carries on the Urban Shots series which focuses on the lives of every- day Indians all across the small towns and big cities of the nation. Featuring authors such as R. Chandrasekar, Paritosh Uttam, Ira Trivedi, Arunava Sinha, Rohini Ke- jriwal and many more, it explores the tender side of life, leaving the reader dreaming and smiling, feeling ten- der, moved, giddy and loved along with the characters themselves. A must-have book in your collection! Weaving through the expanse of emotions that make up love, debutant writers and well known authors bring you a collection of stories that will pull at your heartstrings. These heartfelt tales take you on a journey across India. In Sultangarh, a young school teacher contemplates the better rishta for herself. At Esplanade, a man awaits a rendezvous with his much younger ‘girlfriend’. In Chennai, an IT Projects Manager meets a mysterious stranger. Love blossoms in unexpected places at a jhalmuri stall outside a BPO; two insomniacs from Mumbai meet by night; and in the quiet of Flurys café, a man revisits a time gone by with his lover. Many of these stories delve into secret places. An intimate moment reveals darker secrets. A bride sits at the altar conflicted. The truth about a marriage comes unfurling ‘out of the closet’. A passionate couple try to address a ‘loud’ problem. While a once happy couple grapple with the stings of betrayal. Laughter, as fortune favours the believer of positions of the stars; a street smart young lad walks into a marriage proposal setup; a boisterous middle aged woman chatters away about her secret love life and many other stories. About The Author Edited by Sneh Thakur, and with popular writers like Arunava Sinha, Ira Trivedi, Paritosh Uttam, R Chandrasekar, Ahmed Faiyaz and Malathi Jaikumar among many new voices, this is an anthology of urban Indian fiction, translated regional literature and stories never told before – straight from the heart.
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Urban Shots: Bright Lights
Edited by bestselling author, Paritosh Uttam, this anthology offers snapshots of interesting characters in Urban India. The ten-year-old mathematics loving girl, haunted by memories of her dead mother. The man who buys expensive gifts for married women; an Indian kid who can name every American state in alphabetical order; a boy who knows more than he should about the extra–marital affairs of his parents; a baby with secrets of his own; the pesky Maami in the neighbourhood, with a cure for every ailment; the beefy sportsman with a peacock hairstyle; the seven-year-old who wants to get married; a retiree on his last day in a dead end job; the salesman who fails to meet his targets; the grouchy physics teacher with a love for literature; the chatty cab driver who was once a film maker; the philosophical mehndiwala on the sidewalk; a struggling artist in love with his fabled city; the retired pilot with life advice in the window seat and a lot more.... Racy, compelling and heart rendering stories of urban lives and characters by popular writers such as Paritosh Uttam, R. Chandrasekar, Malathi Jaikumar, Ahmed Faiyaz and a number of popular bloggers and debutant writers.
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Urban Shots: Crossroads
Edited by bestselling author, Ahmed Faiyaz, this anthology explores the conflict, chaos and confusion in the lives of interesting and colourful characters in Urban India. The reclusive kid with a beautiful bicycle; a migrant to Mumbai with Old Monk on his breath, trying to get off a Virar Fast at Borivali; the misunderstood watchman at the library who befriends a little girl;a playstation loving spoilt brat, who is smitten by his mathematics tutor; an old widower who longs for some intimacy with the opposite sex; a confused writer who has to choose between his wife and a seductress; the gargoyle who is the boss’s pet at a call centre; a mild-mannered doctor whose love for yoga puts him on breaking news; a project manager who hates handing out the pink slip; an emotionally scarred woman in the bazaars of Kamathipura; the baraat on a silent night in a one-horse town in Rajasthan; the neighbourhood didi with dark secrets of her own and a lot more.. Racy, compelling and heart rending stories by popular writers such as Pantosh Uttam, Reeti Gadekar, Sharath Komarraju, Malcolm Carvahlo, and a number of popular bloggers and debutant writers.
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Urban Shots
Urban Shots Edited by bestselling author, Paritosh Uttam, this is an anthology of 29 urban tales by 13 young writers. Each of these fresh, vivid and deceptively simple stories focuses on an epiphany. The stories are set with the backdrop of our urban metros with their bright lights, sky rises, glitzy malls, tenements, crowds and the chaos that comes with it. A woman tries to come to terms with loss of a lost baby; two strangers, a young man and a young woman, both with a love for Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment board the same aircraft; a woman ponders over giving a second chance to her cheating husband; a young man is in love with his apple pie loving best friend, who is set to marry through an arranged match; a chance meeting between two old lovers after 11 years; the memories of an old woman in love; an illiterate migrant from the village looking for her own kind of liberation; the longing of a married woman for another man; a child and his silent suffering mother and their financially strapped family; a couple once in love, frustrated with each other after getting married; love and relationships in the age of Twitter and fat free gelatos; the morning after for a couple in an adulterous relationship; a man running away from his own life in the city hoping to find salvation; a couple who decide to marry for reasons other than love and many more stories... About The Author Edited by Paritosh Uttam, bestselling author of Dreams in Prussian Blue, also the contributing author of 10 stories in this collection, the collection includes diverse voices and writing styles. It includes stories by Bishwanath Ghosh, bestselling author of Chai Chai, Ahmed Faiyaz, bestselling author of Love, Life & All That Jazz..., along with accomplished writers – Abha Iyengar, Hasmita Chander, Malathi Jaikumar and Vrinda Baliga. It includes stories by Rikin Khamar, Debutant Author of The Lotus Queen, Kainaz Motivala, Bollywood Actor of Wake Up Sid fame, popular bloggers – Naman Saraiya, Sahil Khan, Kunal Dhabalia and Prateek Gupta.