Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Lady, You're The Boss! - Apurva Purohit



Apurva Purohit is the President of the Jagran Group, one of India's largest multimedia conglomerates. Her second book - Lady, You're the Boss!: The Adventures of a Woman at Work – Part 2; is from one sister to another - for the force to be within us. To begin with it says success is not a matter of aptitude and talent but attitude and perseverance. 22 of 2020

This book is broadly divided into two parts:

First part dealing with life-changing events like a minimum life, imposter syndrome, Strengths not weaknesses, need to feel needed, Learning to let go, last woman standing, The lioness and the dormouse, subconscious bias, ass the single ladies, token woman, Finding sisterhood, real life role models, menopause, midlife crises and somebody's something.

The second part - post interval stage preparing us to soar further higher, above and beyond the limits of imagination. It covers tough love, taming the underling, great communicators, Prioritizing, curiosity, No choice - but choose, perseverance, planning the implementation, measurement and monitoring, Creating winning team, Kehna Karna Nibhana, culture vulture, Personal accountability.

Core of leadership is about positively influencing people and helping transform them into their best version. Most important skill to teach children is resilence. Courage is needed. Good quality reins that can help execute a project successfully or run a business well combine two things, high quality dashboards with regular reviews that have a cadence and momentum and are implemented with military-like rigour and second and more important is the ability to get the measurement metrics right.

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