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Pitch It! is an innovative and delightful book consisting of enthralling anecdotes linking top cricketing giants and corporate moguls that will act as a catalyst for professionals to soar to top echelons in their respective fields. Peppered with fascinating case studies from an eclectic spectrum of industries ranging from IT, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Aerospace, Banking, Petrochemicals, and Food & Beverages, Pitch It! provides the essential blueprint for creating and sustaining winning organizations. 'Pitch It! is a great compilation of winning strategies Greatly enjoyed following winning habits through the lenses of two different arenas I love'-K Srinivas, President, Consumer Business, Bharti Airtel Limited'A great assembly of vignettes of the game and its relevance in business. Loved each chaptermakes you want to go back to it each time. Unputdownable!'-S.V. Nathan, Director, DeloittePitch It! has a foreword by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and epilogue by former Indian cricketer & coach, Venkatesh Prasad. Dev prasad's debut book KRISHNA: A Journey Through the Lands & Legends of Krishna was longlisted for 2010 Vodafone Crossword Award.

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	15 octobre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184004946
Langue	English

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
Winning is a habit every one cherishes, whether on a playing ground or in a corporate boardroom. Great organizations/sporting teams, visionary leaders/outstanding players in both the arenas have displayed the same enduring characteristics consistently to maintain a sustained high performance. In Pitch It! Dev Prasad used fascinating stories from the cricketing world to piece together strategies that could be put to good use in a corporate warfare. An easy to read book, Pitch It! is a great compilation of winning strategies. In a country where cricket is a religion and the players demigods, any analogy with cricket is bound to draw crowds and make comprehension easy and intimate. Greatly enjoyed following winning habits through the lenses of two different arenas I love.
-K. Srinivas, President, Consumer Business, Bharti Airtel Limited
Pitch It! takes a refreshingly different route to bring home to the reader, invaluable lessons in management and leadership, by delving generously into events-some well-known and some less-that have shaped the corporate and cricketing worlds over the years. Pearls of wisdom have been neatly woven into a pleasing necklace that offers answers, ideas, and inspiration! Each pearl is a significant incident involving famous cricketing personalities placed in front of the corporate mirror, to relate to an equally significant business situation. The author deftly compares the sporting and the business worlds to draw invaluable lessons for the aspiring business leader. The real life situations and their lessons-spanning the gamut of leadership challenges-have been chosen with care and presented lucidly, to make Pitch It! an engrossing and inspirational read!
-D.V. Jagadish, Former Executive, GMSI and ASL, Asia Pacific, SW Group, IBM
I have read many books on management and leadership and many on the game of cricket. This bold book of Dev captures in a succinct way the parallels in the game as it plays out in business. Rich in anecdotes and examples that have an ease of reading and absorbing as well, it is a great assembly of vignettes of the game and its relevance in business. Loved each chapter makes you want to go back to it each time! Unputdownable!
-S.V. Nathan, Director, Deloitte
After having hit a century on debut, with his earlier book Krishna , Dev is well on his way to become the Man of the series for enthralling us with his Pitch It! This book can well pass off as a cricket historian s and a corporate management historian s delight, with the amount of research which has gone into the fact finding and stories woven around the facts. Dev, with his unique style of writing has managed to co-relate incidents of similar nature with awesome accuracy and deep insight of the dynamics of these incidents. As a corporate manager myself, I could easily relate to most situations depicted in the book, and almost did a quick recap of my MBA course during the reading. I spent one month to read this book-slowly, but surely, like a Rahul Dravid innings, building my thoughts around and savouring each incident, and giving each one the merit it deserves. The ease with which he slices and punches the stories through the field and finds the boundaries, reminds me very much of the master blaster in action, and to coin one of Dev s own idea, very similar to a Microsoft or an Apple in winning in the corporate space.
-Girish Krishnamurthy, Global Manager, Enterprise Customer Assurance Imaging and Printing Group, Hewlett-Packard Co.
This is a book of many delights. As a die-hard cricket fan who happens to be in the management field, I found Pitch It! to be very interesting, relevant, and insightful. The parallels between incidents on the cricket field and the world of business are well developed. It is a book that will draw you in and keep you hooked.
-Shyam Vembar, Vice President, Mahindra Mahindra Ltd
The best leadership lessons are from sports. Pitch It! is an aggregation of interesting stories from cricket and the parallel drawn to a leadership trait that is so important to be successful in today s corporate world. The stories are truly compelling and well-narrated. Cricket being another religion in India, this book can be handy for leaders to connect, inspire, and motivate the young workforce of today. I would like to congratulate Dev for this unique approach of connecting with the readers through short stories on cricket and leadership.
-M.R. Srinivas Prasad, Head of Healthcare R D, Philips Innovation Campus, (Former Karnataka State and India cricketer)

Published by Random House India in 2013
Copyright Dev Prasad 2013
Illustrations copyright Anupama Ajinkya Apte
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To JRD Tata who taught me integrity, values, principles, and humility
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prologue
1. L EADERSHIP
Humility and Modesty
(Sachin Tendulkar-JRD Tata, Tata Group)
Turnaround Specialist
(Kapil Dev-Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, Renault)
Power of Communication
(Mike Brearley-Louis Gerstner, IBM)
Visionary Leadership
(Anil Kumble-Steve Jobs, Apple)
Leverage Capabilities
(Martin Crowe, Clive Lloyd, Chris Harris, Larry Gomes-Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon)
Challenges as Opportunities
(MS Dhoni-Chanda Kochhar, ICICI)
Leadership by Chance
(Mike Brearley-Kumar Mangalam Birla, Aditya Birla Group)
Leadership Diplomacy
(Anil Kumble-Ratan Tata, Tata Group)
2. T EAM B UILDING AND P EOPLE D EVELOPMENT
Build on Your Strengths
(West Indies Cricket Team-Dr Wiedeking, Porsche)
Good Infrastructure: A Foundation to Success
(Australian Cricket Team-Toyota)
Succession Planning is Planning for Success
(Australian Cricket-General Electric)
Trust Your Intuition
(Imran Khan, Javed Miandad-Boeing)
Say No to Favouritism
(Cricket Team Selection-Yash Birla, Yash Birla Group)
Leading the Stars
(Clive Lloyd, Saurav Ganguly-Narayan Murthy, Infosys)
Coach to Win
(John Wright, Gary Kirsten-Larry Bossidy, Allied Signal)
Collaboration at the Top
(Greg Chappell, Saurav Ganguly-Harry Stonecipher, Phil Condit, Boeing)
3. E THICS AND V ALUES
Integrity vs. Winning
(G.R. Vishwanath, Australian Cricket Board- The HP Way , Mark Hurd)
Fairness is the Name of the Game
(Douglas Jardine-Enron Corporation)
Honesty is the Best Policy
(Stephen Fleming, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting- Tata Code of Conduct , Tata Group)
Good Corporate Citizen
(Steve Waugh-Jamnalal Bajaj, Bajaj Group)
Graceful in Defeat
(Shahid Afridi, Kumar Sangakkara-Carly Fiorina, HP)
4. E XECUTION
Tracking and Governance
(South African Cricket Team-Iridium)
Goals to Actions
(VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid-Boeing 747)
Keep it Simple, Stupid! [Kiss]
(Virender Sehwag-Google)
Benchmark the Best
(Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman-Toyota, Dell Inc., McDonald s)
Consistency in Performance
(Donald Bradman-Microsoft)
Performance is Reality
(Kapil Dev-Agilent Technologies)
Fun@Work
(W.G. Grace, Derek Randall-Southwest Airlines)
5. I NNOVATION AND C HANGE
Off the Beaten Track
(Martin Crowe-Hotmail)
Nothing is Permanent Except Change
(Twenty20-Facebook)
Challenge the Status Quo
(Arjuna Ranatunga-Louis Gerstner, Sam Palmisano, IBM)
Re-Invent your Game
(Rahul Dravid-Apple)
Winning Globally
(Ashok Mankad, Graeme Hick-Kellogg s, McDonald s)
6. K NOW Y OUR M ARKET
Protectionism Doesn t Work
(Indian Cricket-Hindustan Motors)
Value for Money
(West Indies, India-Southwest Airlines, Maruti Suzuki)
Looking at the Bigger Picture
(Sunil Gavaskar, Salim Durrani-Amazon)
First Mover Advantage
(England Team-Kodak)
The Hidden Competitor
(Cricket-Sony, Apple)
7. T RAITS FOR S UCCESS
Proactiveness Pays
(Lasith Malinga, Sachin Tendulkar- Ericsson, Nokia)
Let Your Performance do the Talking
(Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan-Vikram Pandit, Citibank)
Focus on Core Competency
(Irfan Pathan-Texas Instruments)
Adaptable Like a Chameleon
(Mohinder Amarnath-Motorola, Toyota)
Stay Focused
(Amir Sohail, Venkatesh Prasad-Oldsmobile)
Risk Taking Ability
(MS Dhoni-Azim Premji, Wipro)
Overcoming Handicaps
(B.S. Chandrashekhar, M.A.K. Pataudi- Thomas Alva Edison)
8. T EAMWORK
Teamwork and Synergy
(Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers-HP, Compaq)
Cross Cultural Teamwork
(Clive Lloyd-Bob Hoekstra, Philips)
Relationship between Management and Employees
(Chris Gayle-Premier Automobiles)
Team vs. Self
(Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid- Michael Dell, Dell Inc.; Anu Aga, Thermax Ltd)
Development of Ecosystem
(Wasim Akram-YouTube, Texas Instruments)
No One is Bigger than the Game
(Shoaib Akhtar-Carly Fiorina, HP)
9. A TTITUDE
Tenacity and Perseverance
(Steve Waugh-Karsanbhai Patel, Nirma)
Self-belief and Conviction
(MS Dhoni-Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Industries)
Positive Body Language
(Vivian Richards, Sunil Gavaskar-Steve Ballmer, Microsoft)
Ownership and Passion
(Sachin Tendulkar-Bob Galvin, Motorol