Bøger af Kalpana Bhatawdekar

1. The Peace Crusaders: Among many stars and their planetary system of the universe discovered till date, Berth is the only planet other than Earth where exactly humanlike species of Earth exist. In the recent years, these humanlike species called berthlings got very busy carrying out some very sinister activities in many parts of the planet Berth. The situations on Berth presented an exact replica of the situations prevalent on Earth where also its inhabitants- the earthlings- had made wars and killings their daily habit. These were the darkest days of Berth as they were for Earth. Then came the Peace Crusaders... Will they bring in peace on planet Berth? 2. Love Knows No Bounds: The story revolves around Shaan and Kelly. It also revolves around Shaan and Medhavi. Shaan is an orphan adopted by a couple- husband and wife belong to different religions. They are not aware of the religion of their adopted son and hesitate to bestow him any religion. He grows up a fine adult and decides to remain religionless. His first love affair with his classmate Medhavi fails as the girl turns down his proposal of marriage because he is religionless. He accepts it and starts concentrating on his career and meets up with another girl (Kelly) who is also in the same boat as Shaan- a religionless creature. They gradually fall in love not because they are in the same boat but because they start loving each other truly. Shaan and the two girls are destined to meet in Japan at a place devastated by the worst tsunami. Shaan rescues his first love and now she falls in love with Shaan head over heels. The second girl knows their relationship by now and wonders if Shaan will breakup with her and return to his first love.

Authors of this travelogue, Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar and Shyam Bhatawdekar traveled extensively on business in their capacity of top notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Yet they felt that traveling and seeing different places as a part of their business driven journeys was not as complete an experience of the visited places, as they would have liked it to be. That realization gave a kick-start to their additional journeys purely as dedicated tourists. Simultaneously, they started journalizing their various travel and sightseeing experiences. They decided to bring their travelogues in open in order to share these with all. The first travelogue published in the form of a book narrated their journey to Scandinavian countries and Russia. It was titled "Travelogue: Scandinavia, Russia". It was published in both the formats- eBook as well as paperback. Both the formats contained a number of photographs of the places visited by the authors. The readers liked the book quite a lot. But due to inclusion of the photographs the cost of the printed version of the book became little too high to be easily ordered. Therefore the printed version of the book was edited to exclude the photographs. This particular book in its printed form is now being presented to the readers without the photographs while retaining the complete narrative of the earlier version of the book. In order to distinguish it from the earlier book this present book is being published under a new title, "Scandinavia, Russia: A Travelogue".

The authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are the loving parents and loving grandparents. They are wonderful human beings. They are also top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, well known human behavior experts, humane psychologists, prolific authors and presenters par excellence. In this book, they share with you stories for the young ones. When their children were small, they used to invent these stories from time to time and used to narrate to them and to other children. Now they tell these stories to their grandchildren. The children are always fascinated by these stories and ask for more. You must look at their eyes and the facial expressions when these stories are told to them. They remain spell-bound. Now, the authors wish to share these stories with all the children of the world. Parents, grandparents, guardians and families will find these stories very handy. They can read them here in this book and narrate to their own children and other children. It will be a rewarding experience for them. Children who can read can as well read the stories all by themselves and enjoy them.

Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They used all of this in writing these funny (and not so funny) short stories for this book.Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large.The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.

Show us a human being who does not wish for success and happiness in his life. Yet, the desired success and happiness are very illusive; they are like mirage to a large majority of people. The reason is that most of the people fall short of the required levels of effectiveness that may lead them to achieve their life time objectives. They just don't have the clue on what can give them the higher degrees of effectiveness. This ignorance proves very expensive. They keep struggling throughout their lives and keep consuming themselves and their resources without any satisfactory results. So, what should they do to acquire the required effectiveness? This book presents the answer to this question. It presents the "most effective model of effectiveness" called "HSoftware". The book unravels the "HSoftware" model in a very lucid manner. The authors explain that though each human being is unique and that uniqueness may be worthy of appreciation, yet, it does not guarantee effectiveness in each one of them. Only the acquisition of more correct and appropriate "HSoftware" and its strict practice alone can make one more effective. The book uncovers the most fundamental constituent elements of "HSoftware" in an interesting way. Shyam Bhatawdekar is the creator of this word "HSoftware" and its associated concepts. Both the authors of this book started using this phrase "HSoftware" and its related concepts in their numerous speaking assignments, seminars and workshops since 1993 or even earlier. Subsequently they started using it in the written form through their various published articles. And now they present this all encompassing effectiveness model "HSoftware" in the form of this book to help the entire humanity.The authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings.

The authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. First and foremost, they are great human beings and a happily married couple of nearly 40 years standing. Besides they are rationally, emotionally and spiritually intelligent as is evident from their personal and professional profile- they are top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, authentic human behavior experts, humane psychologists, presenters par excellence. Therefore, they are quite competent to tell you a thing or two about life in general and the married life in particular. They believe that if you are married and wish to remain married, you must try to seek the "bliss" of the married life. And as per them it is achieved by designing and experiencing intimacy in marriage. The partners in a relationship can romance in intimacy provided they wish to do it and provided they develop the skills and competencies that are needed to develop and enhance such an intimacy. It does not happen automatically. One has to take steps to do it. In this book, the authors suggest a six point program to achieve this. Each point of the six point program is one important lesson that needs to be understood and then implemented very well.

The famous saying "Health is Wealth" is not a cliché. Having good health is more valuable than having material wealth since you can't enjoy the wealth without health. The fact is health itself is an important kind of wealth. Even if you do not possess much money or assets you can still be far happier being in great shape physically, emotionally and mentally if you possess the most important asset called "health". That's the reason for bringing forth this book to benefit everyone and to remind about the things you can do to keep healthy throughout your life, not feel miserable and stay capable of creating and enjoying this wealth as well as other types of wealth. The suggestions the authors have made in this book for keeping healthy are very simple, quite practical, most economical and easily understandable. The entire book has been written in a layman's language keeping out all the difficult to understand jargons. This book is based on collective native wisdom derived from close observations of the persons who lived happily and healthily till age 90 to 100 plus years. It should not be treated as a medical or professional prescription from a doctor or a nutrition expert or a physical trainer or any other professional health practitioner. Authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors.

Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, humane psychologists, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They studied the human nature and its difficulties for over 40 years. They studied over this period the enormous and perennial change patterns that affect people from all walks of life. They also studied the resultant stresses that hit the people the wrong way and make them vulnerable. And then the thought occurred to help people understand these stresses and how to manage and get rid of them. This book is the outcome of that thought. The book explains simple and practical ways of identifying the stresses and managing them well. That's why this book will serve as a handbook of stress management to the humanity.

Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They are accomplished speakers with more than 40,000 hours of faculty experience. Around 150,000 persons must have benefited from their seminars and workshops. In their seminars and workshops they use variety of management and business games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers for greater and richer participation of their audience. They have included many of those in this book. This book, therefore, will be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students.

Encouraged by the response to the first volume of "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained a large number of games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers. The second volume contained many more.The two volumes of "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers" proved to be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, coaches, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students. The large number of management games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers contained in the two volumes could be gainfully used in the seminars and workshops on divergent topics.Soon a need was felt to extract out from the two above-mentioned volumes the games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers that would be apt for seminars and workshops on "team building" and "teamwork", and consolidate them in a book form. The new book should contain only those management games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers that would bring out the concepts, techniques, processes, systems and benefits of teamwork and team building. So the book titled "Classic Team Building Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers" was conceived and published.Lately yet another need has been strongly felt to consolidate all the above-mentioned three books into a single book. Accordingly all the management games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers have now been assembled in the present book. Some more have been added making them a total of 101 in numbers. Therefore the book is aptly titled as "101 Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers". With the publication of this book many of the readers can do with just one single book.The authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They are accomplished speakers with more than 40,000 hours of faculty experience. Around 150,000 persons must have benefited from their seminars and workshops.In their seminars and workshops they use variety of management and business games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers for greater and richer participation of their audience. They have included 101 of those in this book.These 101 management games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers will be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, coaches, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students.

Performance management and performance appraisal are often confused with each other. Additionally these are often thought as management gimmicks best relegated to HR guys of an organization.The truth is that in today's highly competitive environment performance management and therefore, performance appraisal have become strategic interventions. Managers and employees at every level and from every department of every organization will become more effective individually and organizationally if they start using these two interventions seriously as their important management tools.This book therefore should become an important reference document for every manager and every employee. To assimilate the required knowledge on the subject quickly only the essential and value-adding aspects of performance management and performance appraisal have been included in the book leaving out the nonessential, unnecessary and non-value adding stuff.The authors of the book are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Encouraged by the unprecedented response to the first volume of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained large number of management case studies. The second volume contained many more.Our readers have been requesting the authors to club the two volumes of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World" and bring out a combined version of volumes 1 & 2 of the title. Therefore, presented here is the combined version of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World". Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are topnotch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large.The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.

Anger is largely a negative emotion. Unbridled anger can do serious harm to the person who gets angry. It may also harm the person or the event you are angry with. Extreme as well as frequent anger can deteriorate your overall health pretty hopelessly and make you do quite nasty things that are not in line with your usual characteristics. This makes a strong case for "Anger Management". Everyone must learn how to control and manage one's anger. Managing anger not only keeps you away from its dangers but also results in many benefits. Therefore a thorough knowledge of "Anger Management" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Anger Management" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Most people often misunderstand time management. They see it in a very limited sense as synonymous to constructing the timetable of daily or weekly activities and strictly following that schedule. Some sophistication is added to the process by introducing prioritization of activities in deciding the calendar. But time management is much more than this. In this book it is described as taking control of our life and managing ourselves. It emphasizes on the correct choice of projects, tasks and activities related to your short-term, long-term and lifetime aspirations, objectives and goals. Therefore, a thorough knowledge of time management in its new avatar becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this important subject in the shortest possible time, the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the appropriate "essentials" of time management in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. So the book becomes an authentic document.

Do you feel less confident when you deal with others? Do you succumb to others' demands and do things that you do not wish to do? Do you want to be on equal footing with others but keep feeling otherwise? Do you end up shouting and getting angry with others to be on par with them? Have you become habitual of always proving your superiority to others by being aggressive? Is something wrong the way you approach people? If answers to above-mentioned questions are "yes" then it makes a strong case for being "assertive" rather than continuing the existing submissive or aggressive behavior. Therefore a thorough knowledge of "Assertive Behavior" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Assertive Behavior" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

"Communication" is one of the most important competencies every human being must continually improve in his various roles- individual, family person, social entity and professional. Every human being communicates a few hundred times or more everyday. Imagine its cumulative negative repercussions if he is not effective doing it. So if one wishes to benefit each time he communicates he has to be really good at it. Therefore a thorough knowledge of "Effective Communication" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Effective Communication" in the book. The authors are topnotch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Work Study comprising of its two main branches Method Study and Work Measurement remains, even to date, the most fundamental system of introducing continual improvements in effectiveness, efficiency and overall productivity. It is the forerunner of the latter-day systems and techniques like Kaizen, TQM and Business Process Reengineering etc. Therefore, a thorough knowledge of Work Study becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this important subject in the shortest possible time, the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the ?essentials? of Work Study in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book ?Essentials of Work Study? becomes an authentic document on the subject.

The authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar used their multifaceted personalities in writing the case studies for this book. They are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, good human beings, prolific authors and presenters par excellence.Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large.The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.

In this book, you will read all about building competencies to achieve effectiveness and therefore, to achieve success in professional, personal, family and social life. For this purpose explanation of a large number of important competencies and the methodology of "competency matrix" have been included in the book. Authors, Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar, in their capacity of top notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors have had extensive and intensive hands-on experience of competency matrix and competency building. Therefore, the treatment that is given to this vital topic in the book has turned out to be quite authentic.

"5S Housekeeping" is simple, methodical and effective system of housekeeping. This system was first implemented in Japan. Later it has been adopted all over the world because of its multifarious advantages. You can implement it not only in factories, offices and stores but also at homes, hospitals and schools. And every individual can do it. The investments to implement "5S" are absolutely minimal and the benefits are enormous. It is also a basic system for launching various other quality systems like TPM, TQM, JIT etc. Considering its tremendous benefits a thorough knowledge of "5S Housekeeping" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this important subject in the shortest possible time, the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "5S" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book "Essentials of 5S Housekeeping" becomes an authentic document on the subject.

For assured growth and progress of desirable dimensions in personal, professional, family and social life every person should resort to "Goal Setting" on a perennial basis. It should become a natural habit with every ambitious person who is out to find meaning in life. "Goal Setting" if done properly helps you to define your dreams and aspirations in more clear and concrete terms in the form of achievable goals. Then it becomes easy to take the required actions to achieve the desired end results. Considering its huge benefits in all walks of human life a thorough knowledge of "Goal Setting" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Goal Setting" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Encouraged by the response to the first volume of "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume.The first volume contained a large number of games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers. The second volume contains many more.Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business/management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts, humane psychologists, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They are accomplished speakers with more than 40,000 hours of faculty experience. Around 150,000 persons must have benefited from their seminars and workshops. In their seminars and workshops they use variety of management and business games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers for greater and richer participation of their audience. They have included many of those in this book.This book, therefore, will be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students.

Encouraged by the unprecedented response to the first volume of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained large number of management case studies. The second volume contains many more. Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are topnotch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large. The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.

"Quality Circles" is one of the most beneficial Japanese management systems. Large number of organizations all over the world adopted this system due to its significant contribution towards overall organizational improvements. The salient feature of "Quality Circles" is its facility to involve a large number of people of an organization in the problem solving process and to keep them highly motivated. Thus both- the organization as well its people- benefit in various ways. Its other aspect is its applicability to every kind of organization. Considering its huge benefits and scope a thorough knowledge of "Quality Circles" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Quality Circles" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business consultants, eminent management gurus, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings. They are accomplished speakers with more than 40,000 hours of faculty experience. Around 150,000 persons must have benefited from their seminars and workshops.In their seminars and workshops they use variety of management and business games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers for greater and richer participation of their audience. They have included many of those in this book.This book, therefore, will be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students.

Encouraged by the unprecedented response to the first volume of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained large number of management case studies. The second volume contained many more. Our readers have been requesting the authors to club the two volumes of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World" and bring out a combined version of volumes 1 & 2 of the title. Therefore, presented here is the combined version of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World". Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are topnotch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large.The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.

Encouraged by the unprecedented response to the first volume of "Sensitive Stories of Corporate World", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained large number of management case studies. The second volume contains many more. Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Their interactions with and keen study of the people in the business world, the corporate companies and life in general paved way to write on those subtle aspects of human life that easily get ignored but come to think of it, they are the real makeup of the life at large. The book therefore includes such shades of corporate and business life and life in general that touch the soft and sensitive spots of human nature.