R. Gopalakrishnan is corporate adviser, The Mindworks. He is the author of bestselling books such as
The Case of the Bonsai Manager,
When the Penny Drops: Learning What's Not Taught and
A 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.
The Case of the Bonsai Manager is the perfect antidote for managers 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.
The revised and updated edition of this bestselling book, with its easy to read anecdotal style, adds additional material to re-enforce the key messages, including a new self-help workbook.
