Exploring HR Books by Indian Authors: Which Ones Have Inspired You?

I browsed through some HR books in the search and came across Mastermind by Siddharth Basu and some books by Chetan Bhagat. I think a special post must be created for books by Indian authors. A new book has come in the market:

The greatest secret of success - Your passion quotient by Virender Kapoor - This book addresses the "square pegs in round holes" issue in a variety of ways. It would be of interest for the rest of you to know that Mr. Kapoor is on the HR committee of CII. He is a postgraduate from IIT Bombay and a Director of a premier business school in India.

The other books that I know by Indian authors are:

Passion by Pramod and Vijay Batra

Passion to win - Abad Ahmed and DP Chopra on the basis of research by the All India Management Association.

Former Billiards champion Geet Sethi has written a sweet and simple book called 'Success v/s Joy'. It may not be a quintessential HR book but it has some very good HR lessons. In fact, the basic theme of the book is to avoid a square peg in a round hole. It has a foreword by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.

A double life - which is an autobiography by former Lintas chairman Alyque Padamsee is a very good HR book in the sense that it shows how a man straddles two careers throughout his life - one career (Advertisement) funding the other (passion - theatre).

I don't know whether Mr. Chetan Bhagat is an HR professional, but I am just keen to know whether any Indian HR professional has written similar books.

There is a new book called "The Five Great Myths of Career Building" by Sanjiv Bhamre. It is published by Macmillan India Ltd.

Bhamre is an educator and consultant with 25 years of experience. The book offers valuable insights, and the author's experience is clearly palpable.

There is a new book called "Be Inspired: Make an Informed Career Decision" by Amber Ahuja, who, apart from being an independent researcher and analyst, works as an Advisor for South Asia at the University of New South Wales.

It is a comprehensive guide on career planning, covering both internal factors (values, goals, motivation, aptitude, personality, attitude, skills, among other factors) and external markets (international, national, industry, company, job roles, salary, etc.). In my view, this is a must-read for those who emphasize the importance of attitude and how it alone matters and wins, which is largely a one-sided view.

The book does a good job of cautioning students about making career choices (avoiding square pegs in round holes is the primary role of HR) and includes examples such as N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys), Vishwanathan Anand, Sunil Gavaskar, Ritu Beri, Shankar Mahadevan, among others.

Debashis Chatterjee is currently a Professor of Organizational Behavior at IIM Lucknow. He has written a book called "Break free; Discover your Leadership Signature" in which he has covered Leadership, Talent Management, Change Management, etc., very well from both management and spiritual perspectives. It is always a pleasure to read books that talk about innate human potential rather than harping on attitude all the time.

I had read another book by him, "Light the fire in your heart," which was also a management and leadership book, and I liked it immensely.

For those interested, this is the link to all his books:
http://debchat.com <link updated to site home>

I think that the publications by the Ahmedabad Management Association on Ancient Indian wisdom are relevant both from an HR and spiritual perspective:

http://amaindia.org#books

The case of the Bonsai manager by R. Gopalakrishnan, who is the executive director of Tata Sons, is a unique book on intuitive leadership to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It has a foreword by Ratan Tata.

Hi, would anybody know of any good books by Indian authors on:

1) Teamwork and

2) Managing people in the information age

These are to be used by MBA students... need them real urgently please.

Regards