Are you ready for the corner office?

Pradipta is a business leader with over three decades of experience in managing large Indian businesses as well as British, American, and Japanese Joint Venture companies in India. He pioneered India’s foray into modern organized retailing as well as early digital media and e-commerce.  He has experience in managing businesses in IT, Telecom, Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech Businesses. He sits in the board of 20 publicly listed as well as private companies in India, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, UK and USA. Pradipta has led Industry and Businesses of Southern India by Chairing Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). The CII members represent about 50 per cent of India’s businesses and industries (www.cii.in). At the national level, Pradipta significantly contributes to assisting industries and government in policy formulation by being members of CII’s National Committees on affirmative action, ethics and governance and corporate social responsibility.  Pradipta co-founded Coaching Foundation India Limited (www.cfi.co.in) that pioneers coaching of entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as Chennai Business School Limited (www.cbs.org.in) that assists young professionals to study management post-graduation in important industry verticals. Pradipta also assists and coaches a large number of first-time CEOs and young entrepreneurs to succeed in their businesses.  He co-authored India’s Global Power Houses (2009). He did his under-graduation in Chemical Engineering and Management at Bombay University and Harvard Business School. He was invited to be a Fellow of Chartered Management Institute, UK, and was president of Madras Management Association. Pradipta travels extensively around the world and represents India in many global forums and conferences.   Ganesh Chella has, in a career spanning over three decades, come to be acknowledged for his contributions as a practitioner and thought leader in the field of Organisation Development, Human Resources and Executive Coaching. After a successful corporate career in Human Resources for 16 years, Ganesh founded totus consulting, a strategic HR consulting firm; Coaching Foundation India Limited, a pioneering institution for coaching and leadership development and totus HR School, an HR capability-building institute.He has authored the book Creating a Helping Organisation: 5 Engaging Ways to Promote Employee Performance, Growth & Wellbeing and co-authored the book Are You Ready for the Corner Office? He has a very large body of published articles and blogs to his credit.Ganesh is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur, a professional member of the India Society for Applied Behavioural Science and trained and certified as a Coach by Dr Skiffington, Australia and Coaching Foundation India.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionI: THE CORNER OFFICE SEEN THROUGH THE KEYHOLE OF EXECUTIVE COACHINGExecutive Coaching in the Indian contextThe Human Side of Leader DevelopmentII: ENHANCING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCEThe Place of Emotional Intelligence in Leader Effectiveness—B J PrashanthamThe Importance of the Emotional Side of your PersonalityWhen the Flaw Turns FatalLow Self-Esteem Can Derail a Leader’s CareerIII: SHAPING ATTITUDES AND BELIEFSWhy Attitudes and Beliefs Affect a Leader’s Effectiveness—Zahid GanjeeTransporting the Winning AttitudeWhat Makes People MiserableExecutives Succeed When They Refuse to Become Victims of Their CircumstancesCelebrating the Feminine Side of a Woman’s Leadership StyleIV: DEVELOPING NEW SKILLS, STYLES AND BEHAVIOURSWhy Skills, Style and Behaviours Make Such a Huge Difference to a Leader’s Effectiveness—Santrupt MisraCatching Up on Missed Managerial Learning MilestonesDeveloping This Mysterious Thing Called Executive PresenceGrowing a Business through Disciplined LeadershipHelping the Chosen One Claim his Succession SpaceV: ACQUIRING GLOBAL COMPETENCIESWhy Global Competencies Are So Critical Today—Anil SachdevWhen Indian Executives Must Measure up to Global BenchmarksIt Takes Innovation and Effort to Crack the Competency CodeVI: MANAGING CAREER TRANSITIONSWhy Career Transitions are Always Challenging—Aroon JoshiWaking Up and Smelling the CoffeeThe Anxiety of Not Having a Position of AuthorityRevisiting Functional LeadershipThe Need for a Coach-Mentor Partnership to Facilitate Radical Career ShiftVII: GRAPPLING WITH EMERGING EXECUTIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL AGENDASHow Do Executives and Entrepreneurs Grapple with Their Compelling Agendas—R RamarajWhen a Young Entrepreneur Has to Make a Life-Altering DecisionCoaching Principles Applied to Peer to Peer Business MentoringThe Importance of a Thinking PartnerVIII: ENHANCING COACHING EFFECTIVENESSWhat Contributes to Coaching Effectiveness—R R NairThe Power of Public Accountability in Influencing ChangeIt Takes Trust, Time and Team Work to SucceedThe Pygmalion Effect in CoachingAn Introduction to Typical Coaching Processes and Some of the Frequently Used Terms

Leadership coaching is gaining growing acceptance in India as an important input in preparing senior business leaders for the top jobs. The authors’ unique approach of presenting real-life case studies is very effective in providing insights into common issues that leaders deal with, and how they can be handled.