Our Glassrooms: Perceptiveness and Its Implications for Transformational Leadership - Paperback

by Dhruva Trivedy (Author)

This book highlights the significance of perceptiveness that takes readers to formidable heights, showing relevance in most revered professions and in the corporate world.

We have had various leadership attributes discussed globally, but the attribute of perceptiveness has been overlooked, particularly, in the context of transformational leadership. This book highlights the significance of perceptiveness that takes readers to formidable heights, showing relevance in most revered professions and in the corporate world. Individual personalities and their lives have been depicted to emphasize this experience.

The style of managing the corporate has been most vulnerable to change, because of rapid growth in technology and changes in the physical and social environment. Leadership styles ought to be ready for quick adaptation; and perceptiveness is one attribute that will show the way. Relevance of the attribute has been exemplified in different functional domains. The success stories of some futuristic organizations have been cited in the concluding part.

Author Biography

Dhruva Trivedy was born to a family of artists, performing arts included. His parents were from two different cultural and language backgrounds but were conscientious about values and tried to hand them over, as best as they could. From schooling to post graduation he attempted to collect all the pebbles that lay on the shores of knowledge, streaming through friends, teachers, elders, colleagues and also helping hands. With a post-graduation in HR from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he began his quest to exploit his interpersonal abilities and build on them. He moved out of his comfort zones, first from HR domain to operations, from corporate to consulting and dabbled with his love for academics by doing part-time assignments with B-Schools. His admiration for consulting kept him preoccupied with the throes and challenges of change. His blogs and articles have been published by magazines, journals, and newspaper dailies. He has been adorned with the title of a "Thought Leader" by CIPD, London on the centenary celebrations of the CIPD in 2013.