Case of the Bonsai Manager

The Case of the Bonsai Manager is the perfect antidote for every manager who feels they are not achieving their full potential. Effective leadership is not just about hard facts but also about listening to and using your intuition. Using anecdotes from Nature and the world of management R.Gopalakrishnan explores how you can be more intuitive inclusive and humane. With its easy to read anecdotal style this edition adds additional material to re-enforce the key messages including a NEW Self-Help Workbook. ‘Gopal draws on ingenious insights and lessons from Nature to emphasize the importance of imbibing developing listening to and trusting your intuition-increasingly becoming a differentiator in senior circles-to develop the confidence to take that leap of faith which every risk-bearing decision entails.’-Ratan Tata. About the Author R. Gopalakrishnan is corporate adviser The Mindworks. He is the author of bestselling books such asThe Case of the Bonsai ManagerWhen the Penny Drops Learning What's Not Taught andA Biography of Innovations From Birth to Maturity. He studied physics at Kolkata University engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has served as the chairman of Unilever Arabia MD of Brooke Bond Lipton vice chairman of Hindustan Lever and as the executive director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of listed companies like Akzo Nobel India Castrol India and Hemas Holdings PLC Sri Lanka. Gopal mentors a start-up called Mapmygenome Private Limited the board of which he chairs. He is actively engaged in both instructional and inspirational speaking.