You Can: From Smarter to Wiser

by Meera Shenoy, Prasad Kaipa

Overview

Management gurus tell us there are lessons to learn from inspirational lives.And that we do not have to wait a life time to integrate these lessons into our lives.

The real life stories profiled in this book cover entrepreneurs ranging from some in wheel chairs to blind persons who build their businesses with zest and energy. It looks at CEOs who hire youth with disability and make products for this market, because it makes business sense. And it celebrates those who have converted disability in their personal lives to an opportunity to touch and transform other vulnerable lives.

Reading these stories calms and focuses our mind and show us how lucky I am compared to the so many others. They alsoinspire us to stop whining about the vicissitudes of life and to expand our abilities to the utmost.

Becoming Smarter and Wiser is a journey - Walk with Us .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789386141200
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Meera Shenoy has worked in senior positions in the government, in private sector and worked as a consultant with multilateral agencies like the World Bank and UNDP. The focus has been skilling underprivileged youth. Her work has demonstrated twice, both for non-disabled rural youth and for youth with disability, that skilling youth to the needs of the market and linking them to jobs can be done in scale. And placing one young boy or girl in a organised sector job takes the entire family out of poverty in a sustained manner. Meera Shenoy is the Founder-Chairperson of Youth4Jobs (www.youth4jobs.org), which focuses on helping companies build an inclusive workforce.
Prasad Kaipa is a senior research fellow and a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and was the founding Executive Director of the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) and also the CEO of the Kaipa Group in California and works with companies and senior executives in the areas of innovation and leadership development. He is a Smith Richardson Visiting Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership since June 2010. He has been an advisor and coach focusing on innovation and leadership since 1990 to over 110 CEOs, executive team members and board members in Global Fortune 500 companies. Prasad co-founded the Entrepreneur Institute for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in 2002 to help entrepreneurs connect their innovative ideas, products and services with effective ways to engage and co-create with others in the ecosystem