Download or read book Mindful Leadership in Practice written by Volker Schulte and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows why mindful leadership is the key element for supportive management and leadership in the 21st century. It highlights the fundamentals of mindful leadership in philosophy and history in different cultural traditions and shows latest research on mindfulness and digitalization, technology, social networking, and leading-self concepts. The book bridges the past and the future. By combining a range of research perspectives, it connects mindfulness to serving leadership concepts and describes resilience for both individuals and organizations. In addition, it presents theoretical aspects and practical recommendations on how to implement mindful leadership and supportive environments in organizational cultures. The book encompasses history, present leadership challenges and future management perspectives and enables the implementation of models of good practice into daily working life. It includes contributions from researchers of different continents, and offers an international overview of state-of-the art leadership research. This book is of interest to professionals and researchers working on leadership, from the perspective of positive psychology, organizational studies, and wellbeing studies.

Download or read book Science Education in India written by Rekha Koul and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings researchers from across the world to share their expertise, experience, research and reflections on science education in India to make the trends and innovations visible. The thematic parts of the book discuss science education: overviews across K-16 levels; inclusivity and access for underrepresented and marginalized sections; use of innovations including technology in the teaching; and implications for research, practice, innovation and creativity. The book should be of special interest to researchers, school administrators, curriculum designers and policymakers. A timely compilation for current and future generations of academic researchers, teachers and policymakers who are interested in examining the issues facing one of the largest education systems in the world. The book offers unique insights into contemporary topics such as girls in STEM subjects, curriculum reform and developing a generation of future creative thinkers. -Professor Vaille Dawson, The University of Western Australia, Australia. It provides a panorama of challenges in a country of more than 1.3 billion people, 50% being below the age of 25 years. The book arrives at a time in which there are discouraging trends, including a decrease in funding for education. The book chapters are centred on issues that warrant debate to foster awareness of the roles of science education in India and priorities and possibilities for expanding horizons on the road ahead. -Professor Kenneth Tobin, The City University of New York, New York, USA.

Download or read book Jugaad Yatra written by Dean Nelson and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Instant History written by Anil Maheshwari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very enjoyable and educative book indeed. -Bibek Debroy Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister An unusual book. -Professor S. Irfan Habib Former Maulana Azad Chair, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi The book is simply 'unputdownable'. -Rasheed Kidwai Visiting Fellow, ORF Congress leader Arjun Singh was aware of the imminent appointment of Dr Manmohan Singh as the prime minister. What did he do to sway the decision in his favour? Did Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar help the religious leader Chandraswami escape the dragnet of the Enforcement Directorate? What prompted the editor of Hindustan Times to publish an article titled 'National Shame' on the front page of the newspaper? How did a typo in a copy received by All India Radio lead to an inquiry by the Pakistani authorities regarding a 'mole' in their midst? Instant History is a brilliant insight into our recent history. A treasure trove for all those who believe that journalists write the first draft of history, this is an honest perspective on various issues in the context of many geographical complexities, political realities and social dichotomies. Narrated through short pieces and snippets, it unveils several incidents and exposes ground realities that afflict politics, bureaucracy and even journalism. Moreover, serving a slice of history, it documents changes India has witnessed across the last quarter of the preceding century, providing insights into the history of public administration. Anecdotal, humorous and often caustic, Instant History is a fabulous work on Indian journalism and politics recounted by a senior journalist with an insider view of affairs.

Download or read book Business Model Innovation written by Chander Velu and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What strategic challenges are faced by both start-ups and incumbent firms, and what opportunities do these challenges create for business model innovation? Focusing on the underpinning theory and concepts of business models, this book identifies new business models capable of creating sustainable competitive advantage, and guides readers through their implementation. A detailed introduction outlines current research in business model innovation (including directions for future research) and global business cases are applied throughout to illustrate key issues. Topics covered include market creation, leadership, digital technology adoption, small- and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, sustainability, socio-economic development and conduct risk. Also discussed are the principles of the architecting economic systems, the role of government in influencing business models design, and how organisational structures must adapt in the context of business model innovation.

Download or read book Electoral Jugaad written by SK Nigam and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of citizens of any democratic country are influenced by politics all the time, still many people do not understand how it works and how politicians lose or win. Involvement of politics in day-to-day life has prompted responses going from enthusiastic discussion to pessimistic excusal or latent acknowledgment. Anyway, neither enthusiastic discussion nor pessimistic excusal significantly helps anybody. A paucity of information about the Jugaad used by politicians and political parties is turning out to be considerably more fundamental now when narratives are being developed by using fake news, propaganda, analytics, and artificial intelligence presented by data availability and social media platforms. This lack of information convinced the author to write this book for the empowerment of voters as well as young leaders who keep their confidence and trust in democracy. This book will additionally improve their capacity for the democratic electoral process at a massive scale in a country like India. It takes more than analysis to help readers overcome the dangers of uninformed election campaign management. Here is the book that decisively strikes with readers and empowers them to redefine their vision for democracy.

Download or read book Indian Innovation Not Jugaad 100 Ideas that Transformed India written by Dinesh C. Sharma and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinesh C. Sharma is a New Delhi-based award-winning journalist and author with over thirty-five years’ of professional experience. He has written extensively on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation for national and international media, including The Lancet and Wired. He has been Science Editor at Mail Today, and Managing Editor at India Science Wire and is currently the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (2020-2021). His book The Outsourcer: The Story of India’s IT Revolution was awarded the Computer History Museum Book Prize in 2016. He has also been a visiting faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ateneo de Manila University, Manila. Dinesh Sharma tweets at @dineshcsharma

Download or read book Amarnath Yatra written by Joydeep Roy and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amarnath Yatra: A Photo Story to the Abode of God and the Secret of Immortality" invites readers on an evocative journey to one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines. Through stunning photographs and heartfelt narrative, this book chronicles a memorable pilgrimage starting from Srinagar to the sacred Amarnath Cave. The journey unfolds with a vivid description of the life of the people, the flora and fauna of Kashmir valley, description of the serene landscapes of Jannat – e – Kashmir and spiritual revelations. From the challenging ascent to Pissu Top to the serene beauty of Seshnag Lake and Mahagunas top, every step is a blend of physical endurance and spiritual awakening. The author's personal adventure, enriched by the companionship of his uncle, highlights the profound connection between nature and spirituality. Their tale of persistence and devotion culminates in the awe-inspiring darshan of the Amarnath Shiva Lingam. This book is not just a travelogue but a testament to the transformative power of pilgrimage. "Amarnath Yatra" captures the essence of a journey where every moment becomes a part of a sacred experience.

Download or read book Bonding with the Lord written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few other Hindu gods guide a regional consciousness, pervade walks of everyday life and define a collective psyche the way Lord Jagannath does in Odisha and its contiguous areas. Jagannath is metonymic of Odisha and the Odia way of life, arguably much more than any other god for a particular geography or its peoples. While not derecognising the historical and the spiritual aspects of Jagannath, Bonding with the Lord attempts to look at the deployment of Jagannath in contemporary cultural practices involving the sensorium in the widest sense. The project of a cultural Jagannath not only materialises him in people's everyday practices but also democratises scholarship on him. The expansion of the scope of research on Jagannath to cultural expressions in a more encompassing way rather than confining to 'elitist' religious/literary sources makes him an everyday presence and significantly enhances his sphere of influence. Jagannath's 'tribal' origin, his association with Buddhism and Jainism and his avatari status make him an all-encompassing, multilayered symbol and a treasure trove for multiple interpretations.

Download or read book Voice of the Rain Season written by Subrata Dasgupta and published by Fingerprint. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jugaad 3 0 written by Simone Ahuja and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will prove that every organization's best chance, to survive and become better than ever, lies within itself. Against the decidedly progressive, action-oriented, and above all restless backdrop of disruption, the DNA of established business is starting to realign. It's the beginning of a groundswell that has started to make lean entrepreneurship a core competency within big business. Based on hundreds of interviews, as well as the author's consulting work within companies, Jugaad 3.0 Hacking the Corporation identifies the competencies these corporate hackers possess. It also offers a spectrum of carefully crafted archetypes to help people see themselves in this trend and allow organizations identify the innovators in their midst.

Download or read book The Story of Guru Nanak written by Mala Singh and published by Hemkunt Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissent on Aadhaar written by Reetika Khera and published by Orient Blackswan Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aadhaar, India's unique identity system, was introduced in 2009 with the stated purpose of creating a more inclusive and efficient welfare system. Hundreds of millions of Indians were enrolled into the biometric database, with successive governments creating pressure by making it compulsory for social benefits. Even after the Supreme Court verdict in 2018, it remains a must-have for welfare.Dissent on Aadhaar argues that Aadhaar was never really about welfare. The essays in this book explain how the project opens the doors to immense opportunities for government surveillance and commercial data-mining.Focussing on Aadhaar, but drawing lessons from ID projects from other parts of the world also, this book alerts readers to the dangers lurking in such expansive digital ID projects. For example, how profiling, made possible by Aadhaar, impinges on the fundamental Right to Privacy; or how surveillance leads to self-censorship and can choke free thought and expression; or how Aadhaar, contrary to government claims, excludes people entitled by right from welfare when made compulsory.

Download or read book Baluta written by Dayā Pavāra and published by Speaking Tiger Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta caused a sensation when it first appeared, in Marathi, in 1978. It quickly acquired the status of a classic of modern Indian literature and was also a bestseller in Hindi and other major languages. This is the first time that it has been translated into English. Set in Mumbai and rural Maharashtra of the 1940s and '50s, it describes in shocking detail the practice of untouchability and caste violence. But it also speaks of the pride and courage of the Dalit community that often fought back for dignity. Most unusually, Baluta is also a frank account of the author's own failings and contradictions-his passions, prejudices and betrayals-as also those of some leading lights of the Dalit movement. In addition, it is a rare record of life in Maharashtra's villages and in the slums, chawls and gambling dens of Mumbai.

Download or read book Dwelling in American written by John Muthyala and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original critique of the idea of American empire in the twenty-first century

Download or read book Ayodhya City of Faith Demy Hb written by Valay Singh and published by Rupa. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one sense, the history of Ayodhya is a microcosm of the history of the north Indian heartland. In another sense, it is a history of the evolution of Vaishnavism in the Hindu consciousness. In a third sense, it stands for the formation and propagation of an aggressive Hindu cultural and religious consciousness that can be traced all the way back to the advent of the East India Company as a military power in north India in the eighteenth century. Over the last two decades or so, a singular fixation on corruption and misgovernance has cloaked the rise of communalism and majoritarianism. In India today, secularism and socialism have become contemptible ideas that many liberals have stopped defending. In this sense Ayodhya has come to stand for ground zero in the battle between secularism and religious fundamentalism in India. One city, many histories.

Download or read book ISIS Peril written by Kabir Taneja and published by Viking. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 2014, after the fall of Mosul, maps of ISIS showing a desire to take over South Asia started to appear on social media. But how far has that borne fruit? Or has it always been more of an ill-conceived chimera? One of the shortcomings of our understanding of ISIS in India-and indeed in South Asia-is that neither the media nor the public discourse seems to know what ISIS itself is. The militant group has eclipsed Al Qaeda to become the most feared terror group in the West, and it continues to expand its influence, despite losing the territory it had captured. And yet, its shadow on South Asia has not been grasped quite as clearly. In The ISIS Peril, Kabir Taneja explores the psychology of South Asian jihadists through the discussion on various narratives from Kashmir to Kerala, the Islamic State's online propaganda strategies by way of Twitter, Facebook and Telegram, leading to the radicalization and subsequent recruitment of the youth, to the Holey Bakery attack in Bangladesh in 2016 and the Easter weekend bombings in Sri Lanka in 2019. Based on detailed and rare primary sources, Taneja uncovers the ideological underpinnings of the jihadist movement in South Asia, and in the process, not only exposes its fault lines but also highlights the challenges in defeating not just the world's most feared terror group but something more powerful, an ideology that it represents.