Book Review: 21 Success Sutras for Leaders by M.S. Rao

(excerpt) Professor M. S. Rao’s 21 Success Sutras for Leaders (“Success Sutras”) offers keen, managerial insight into the benefits of learning from the experiences of others — whether disadvantageous, banal, or extremely useful. Acclaimed as an international, authoritative resource on leadership, Success Sutras equips the reader with 21 leadership tools and techniques designed to minimize mistakes and maximize leadership effectiveness. Its 22 chapters and 176 pages provide examples and illustrations of international leaders and their respective styles of principled leadership paradigms

Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It by Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Mike Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank

Authors Dave Ulrich, David Kryscynski, Wayne Brockbank and Mike Ulrich’s book released in 2017 — Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It — offers tools business leaders and HR professionals need to better and more comprehensively respond to emerging opportunities as well as provide expert advice for building HR departments to deliver measurable business value. It helps build organization capabilities, strengthen systems, and empower human capital ― for sustainable success. This text both offers the reader a vast supply of updated ideas and insights on HR and underscores the importance of talent management and leadership development