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May 2023

12 Mantras of Effortless Leadership

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Author: CA PAWAN KR AGARWAL Reviewer: CA ZUBIN F. BILLIMORIA CA Pawan Agarwal, a first-time author besides being a Chartered Accountant, also completed his LLB and LLM at the age of 57 and 60. He is also a member of Lions International, the world’s largest NGO. The initial reaction of any reader could well be – one more book on leadership! However, once you start a deep dive into the book, a realisation dawns on you that this book is different from several other books on the topic. The author makes it clear that the book is a simple amalgamation of his understanding gained from reading more than a hundred books comprising autobiographies and biographies of Indian heroes and leaders. The book is divided into three parts – part one being the introduction in which he describes the woes of a first-time author in all humility; the second part is the heart of the book in which he encapsulates 12 mantras of successful leadership that stand out for their simplicity and common sense, without getting into complicated theoretical research which several management thinkers and gurus are prone to do, and the third part is the bonus mantras from Dr. Habil Khorakiwala; reproduced from his book Odyssey of Courage: The Story of an Indian Multinational. In the first part, the author candidly admits that the book is a reflecti
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