It is rare to find a book highlighting the role of an academician in shaping the future of an organisation. And, “Pritam Singh: The Alchemist Guru”, by Asha Bhandarker and Subrat Kumar is an effort to fill that vacuum. Illustrating the significance of leadership and its impact on an organisation, this book carries takeaways for corporate leaders, academicians, and employees, indeed anyone who is interested in the intricacies of leadership in action.
Written by interviewing the people who worked with the late Dr Singh or his acquaintances, this book can be described as a celebration and remembrance of a pioneer in management education who has mentored numerous people in the academia and corporate sector and contributed to making them the leaders of today.
It offers readers an opportunity to sense the significance of building interpersonal relationships, taking care of people irrespective of their position, duly respecting them, developing teams, and putting in place a system by which people were all incentivised and rewarded for performance.
The beautiful depiction of Dr Singh’s groundbreaking initiatives in the book leads you to the campuses of MDI Gurgaon, IIM Lucknow, and IMI Delhi, where he created the possibilities of a better future for these institutions than they might otherwise have hoped for.
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