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HarperCollins presents ‘Busted’: Debunking Management Myths with Logic, Experience and Curiosity

 is proud to announce the publication of 

Busted

Debunking Management Myths with Logic, Experience and Curiosity

by Ashok Soota, Peter de Jager and Sandhya Mendonca

 

A book that focuses on seventeen commonly accepted management principles and analyses why these should not be accepted as universal truths.

Published by Harper Business

Hardback | 208 pp | INR 599

Available wherever books are sold | Releasing on 17 August 2023

‘Preserving the status quo—whether in approach or execution—is not a great business strategy. Busted offers a thought-provoking analysis of several “professional truths” and underscores the importance of constant reinvention in business success.’ – Shantanu Narayen, Chairman, President and CEO, Adobe 

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Consider the following statements:

It’s lonely at the top.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Fail fast, fail cheap.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

People leave people, not organizations.

How often have you heard people use these to make a point? Management at all levels is inundated with advice from professional consultants, luminaries and gurus. But do these management truisms hold everywhere? Or are they myths that need to be examined for relevance in today’s rapidly changing world?

In Busted, Ashok Soota and Peter de Jager focus on seventeen commonly accepted management principles and analyse why these should not be accepted as universal truths. Backed by their experience in building and scaling businesses; consulting with organizations across sectors, cultures and continents; real-life examples; and first-person interviews with industry leaders and practitioners, Busted takes into account the changed realities of the workplace and gives you a balanced view of what makes the world of management tick.

Here’s a book that challenges, tickles and pokes at accepted, seemingly unassailable management myths and inspires you to question, test and validate all advice, regardless of the source.

Author, Ashok Soota says, “Management at all levels is inundated with advice from management consultants, luminaries, and gurus. Encapsulated in catchy phrases, they soon acquire the status of truisms and myths. We contend that these management myths are products of their time, and when viewed through a contemporary lens, many of them are not tenable. This book encourages and helps readers to challenge these management myths instead of accepting them at face value.”

Sachin Sharma, Executive Editor at HarperCollins India, adds, “Busted is an eye opener for readers who, over the years, have become accustomed to using popular management quotes in common parlance. It challenges readers to think deeper about all ‘management truisms’ regardless of the source they originated from. The authors present compelling evidence, backed by logic, experience and curiosity to challenge and bust popular management myths.”

 

PRAISE FOR BUSTED

‘As the leader of a venture capital firm, I am always looking for people with breakthrough ideas and thoughts. I find Busted compelling as it spurs questioning of the status quo. This book encourages the reader to push the boundaries of accepted wisdom and enables better management decisions.’ – Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman, Walden International

‘This is a delightful book that takes a deep dive into popular myths, and challenges them based on experiential insight and the ability to explore, question, and tell stories. And all of this with the ease that comes with mastery and intellectual integrity.’ – Vinita Bali, Independent Director on Global Boards and Former MD/CEO, Britannia Industries

‘Feel the need to rethink your management philosophy in today’s dynamic, turbulent world? This book challenges management myths that foster mental inertia, based on colourful observations and wit. The takeaways? Question everything. WHY is the most important word in the managers’ dictionary, and the answer to everything is IT DEPENDS—on logic, of course.’ – Rajendra Srivastava, Executive Director, Centre for Business Innovation, Indian School of Business

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ashok Soota is the founding chairman of Happiest Minds Technologies and was the founding chairman of MindTree.

Peter de Jager is an internationally known keynote speaker/writer/consultant on change management.

ABOUT THE CO-AUTHOR

Sandhya Mendonca is the founder & managing director of Raintree Media and an author.

 

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA

HarperCollins is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, having begun publishing in India in 1992. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian Subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2,000 titles across 10 imprints. Its authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, JCB Prize, DSC Prize, New India Foundation Award, Atta Galatta Prize, Shakti Bhatt Prize, Gourmand Cookbook Award, Publishing Next Award, Tata Literature Live! Award, Gaja Capital Business Book Prize, BICW Award, Sushila Devi Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Harvard University Press, Gallup Press, Oneworld, Bonnier Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins India has won the Publisher of the Year Award four times at Tata Literature Live! in 2022, 2021, 2018 and 2016, and at Publishing Next in 2021 & 2015. HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers.

30 YEARS OF PUBLISHING IN INDIA

At HarperCollins, we believe in telling the best stories and in finding the widest possible readership for our books in every format possible. We started publishing 30 years ago in India and a great deal has changed since then, but what has remained constant is the passion with which our authors write their books, the love with which readers receive them, and the sheer joy and excitement that we as publishers feel in being a part of the publishing process.

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure of publishing some of the finest writing from the subcontinent and from around the world, and some of the biggest bestsellers in Indian publishing history. Our books and authors have won a phenomenal range of awards, and we ourselves have been named Publisher of the Year several times. But nothing has meant more to us than the fact that millions of people read the books we publish, and somewhere, a book of ours might be making a difference to someone.

As we step into our fourth decade, we go back to that one word – a word which has been a driving force for us all these years:

Read.

 

Press Contact:

Prerna Singh

Senior Manager – Marketing & Publicity

Email:  Prerna.Singh@HarperCollins.co.in

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