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Do you know which business leader plays a game of sudoku every night before going to bed?Never uses a computer to write down important thoughts?Likes to stand and work?In Working Out of the Box, Aparna Piramal Raje gives us an intimate peek into the lives of forty progressive leaders by exploring the connections between their workspaces and their working styles. Capturing quirks, individual styles of working, motivations and leadership traits, and tracing the patterns exhibited by these leaders, she unravels their defining qualities and explains how they reflect in their workspaces. Divided into four sections-personal energy, organizational capital, brand values, environment and sustainability-the book provides insight into what makes these CEOs tick and how they manage their most valuable assets..

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	15 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184007367
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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APARNA PIRAMAL RAJE

WORKING OUT OF THE BOX
40 stories of leading CEOs
RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY ANAND G. MAHINDRA
INTRODUCTION
HOW THIS BOOK WORKS
I: PERSONAL ENERGY
A CCESSIBILITY
Deepak Parekh, Housing Development Finance Corp.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Tata Consultancy Services
L EARNING R ENEWAL
Anil Khandelwal, ex-Bank of Baroda
Captain C.P. Krishna Nair, Leela group
Harsh Mariwala, Marico
P ARTNERSHIPS
Cyril Vandana Shroff, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Neera Nundy Deval Sanghavi, Dasra
Vysyaprath Sunil Mohit Dhar Jayal, Weiden + Kennedy
P ORTFOLIO LIVES
Prasoon Joshi, McCann Erickson
Rajagopalan Balakrishnan, Lowe Lintas
Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Bhau Daji Lad
R ESILIENCE
Chitra Ramkrishna, National Stock Exchange
G.V. Sanjay Reddy, GVK Group
T.V. Narendran, Tata Steel
Vikram Limaye, Infrastructure Development Finance Corp.
S PIRITUALITY
Ajay Piramal, Piramal group
Kumar Mangalam Birla, Aditya Birla group
II: ORGANIZATIONAL CAPITAL
A GILITY
Lynda Gratton, London Business School
Subroto Bagchi, Mindtree
Vineet Nayyar, Tech Mahindra
C OLLABORATION
Aruna Jayanthi, CapGemini
Shantanu Khosla, ex-Procter Gamble
Shikha Sharma, Axis Bank
C RAFTSMANSHIP
Baba Kalyani, Bharat Forge
Rajiv Bajaj, Bajaj Auto
Ralf Speth, Jaguar Land Rover
I NTEGRATIVE THINKING
Martin Sorrell, WPP
Rajan Anandan, Google
P URPOSE
Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School
Uday Kotak, Kotak Mahindra
III: BRAND VALUES
I NNOVATION
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon
Park Won-Soon, Mayor of Seoul
P ERSONAL BRANDING
Kishore Biyani, Future Group
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Rare Enterprises
S TORYTELLING
Amar Goel, Komli Media Aditya Swamy, MTV
Anoop Prakash, Harley Davidson
Dippak Khurana, Vserv Mukesh Bansal, Myntra.com
Rajiv Mehta, ex-Puma
IV: ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY
S USTAINABILITY
Douglas Baillie, Unilever
Meher Pudumjee, Thermax
FOOTNOTE
Introduction
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ANSWERS TO THE WORKPLACE QUIZ PHOTO CREDITS
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Advance Praise for the Book
Working Out of the Box is an excellent, thought-provoking read for any leader who wants to transform their culture and better understand how to shape their organizational environment. Aparna Piramal Raje demonstrates that how you work can be just as important as what you work on.
Sarah Stein Greenberg, executive director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (the d.school)
A masterful tour of the inner sanctums of successful C-suites, this book not only satisfies our curiosity about how these private spaces set the conditions for their occupants success, but also highlights the small yet critical design elements-the artefacts and stories-that these leaders use daily to remind themselves who they are and present themselves to others. Each caselet makes you feel as if you have been inside both the leader s office and mind. The leaders, and their philosophies, become as authentically tangible as the spaces are real.
Ethan Bernstein, assistant professor of leadership and organizational behavior, Harvard Business School
Corporate India is an under-researched area in terms of workplace design. This accessible and informative book takes us inside the workspaces of forty Indian chief executives to explore the relationship between business motivation and working environment. A must-read for everyone interested in how the world of work is changing globally.
Professor Jeremy Myerson, Royal College of Art, London
Much attention is given to the public pronouncements of business leaders, but oddly little to their private working styles. Working Out of the Box is a timely correction, providing an insightful and fascinating peek behind the scenes of the corporate titans remaking modern India-and the way in which their offices and habits shape both the companies and industries they lead.
James Crabtree, Financial Times (UK)
Fulfilment, either as an individual or as a professional, comes from genuineness, rather than imposing a style on oneself. Ms Raje s sketches bring alive the core beliefs and sincerity with which they are living their lives.
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts
Aparna Piramal Raje s new book on leadership and design is a collection of intriguing detective stories. She gathers evidence from the offices of a diverse group of chief executives to decode their secrets of business and personal success. Even things as mundane as the style of desks, bookcases and doors, or intangibles such as atmosphere, hold vital clues for the author. I was inspired by her revelations to take another look at my own work environment.
Rakesh Kapoor, CEO of Reckitt Benckiser
Aparna offers a unique view of how leadership traits are reflected in the way people organize their work environment and how it has been evolving with the years and generations. The impact that entering into the leader s office has on people is quite often underscored, but the book makes quite clear how much one can learn and create first impressions by doing that. Most definitely a refreshing point of view that should make us all reflect on what our office has to say about ourselves as leaders!
Claudia Sender, CEO, TAM Airlines (Brazil)
I have always enjoyed Aparna s unique style of journalism. She effectively blends a wide experience in design with an understanding of business, and insightful observations about people, to weave a colourful picture of each leader and their leadership style in the contexts of their different businesses. A refreshing approach to business journalism.
Lakshmi Venu, joint managing director, Sundaram Clayton
To
{ Radhika Desai Seema Chowdhry }
for fostering design thinking and writing
and
{ Mom Amit }
for everything
ANAND G. MAHINDRA
Chairman Managing Director Mahindra Group
Foreword
W orking Out of the Box is an original collection of forty profiles of chief executives in their workspaces. These fascinating pen portraits are like miniature paintings in their detail, intricacy and nuance. This book also innovatively explores the subtle connections between workspaces and work styles, which is a fresh and novel approach. There are three reasons I would urge you to read this book.
First, it offers lessons on leadership from a very diverse pool of subjects. There is a wide range of ages, sectors, geographies, industries and work styles represented, which gives readers a very wide-angle view of the way business works.
Second, this book brings out the very important connection between design and business results. Design is an intangible that is often overlooked. But I fully share the author s view that the design environment shapes people and hence shapes results. As the head of the India Design Council, I am particularly delighted to see the way business and design have been blended to deliver new insight into management thinking. The book s emphasis on connecting tangible workplace design with intangible assets is both compelling and differentiated.
Third, this book recognizes that workplaces are not just a form of capital expenditure, but that they are tangible tools, platforms and resources by which business leaders can influence work styles, leading to economic value creation. They are a form of communication about jobs, careers and livelihoods. Paying close attention to these aspects will be an important factor in harnessing India s demographic dividend.
I found this book both interesting and enlightening, and I am hopeful that it will create a change of thinking and attitudes in the everyday world of work.
APARNA PIRAMAL RAJE
Introduction
If you are reading this, you are interested in knowing more about corporate India. Could you guess which business leader(s): Plays a game of Sudoku every night before going to bed? Never uses a computer to write important thoughts? Always work alongside their spouses? Run the Indian arm of a large MNC but don t have private cabins? Has a Rudyard Kipling poem next to his desk? Had a fully fledged slide in his office? Have Gandhian memorabilia in their offices? Have extensive art collections at work? Like to stand and work? Videoconference daily? 1
Business leaders are often assessed in terms of the big picture-their business strategy and vision, and their ability to drive change and deliver results. While these outside-in descriptions may give an insight into their capabilities, they don t always capture their personality, their individual ways of working or the everyday nuances of their leadership abilities.
Inside-out portraits
The Head Office column began five years ago in the Mint , a business daily, in an attempt to distill how chief executives work-what they read, how they use technology, how they interact with their colleagues, and what motivates them-and to explore the connections between their work styles and workspaces. I was keen to profile business leaders from the inside-out and the goal was to present them at a human-scale, where readers feel as though they were standing next to them, in the corner office.
It is apparent that India s business leadership is changing in visible ways. One size no longer fits all: the stereotypical image of a chief executive in a secluded corner office, disconnected from employees, is receding. Instead, a wide range of workplaces and work styles can be seen, including progressive leadership traits such as agility, craftsmanship and portfolio lives.
Over the course of fifty columns, companies of different scales-major to minor, across sectors and geographies-run by chief executives of differing ages and temperaments have been featured. The qualifying criteria included having a distinctive space, a unique way of working, and a compelling and credible business story.
A few caveats: From the original set of fifty interviews, I was unable to include in the book all those who were interviewed (although all are availab