People, matter for businesses. Leaders who best leverage people achieve outstanding results in business.

This is a short book meant for the busy leader who is looking for simple tips to have tremendous positive impact at work, and in life. Gleaned from real leadership coaching experience and reflections, the book builds on existing knowledge and practices. The author provides links to videos as well as other resources in the book for the hungry reader.

The book has been endorsed by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, "Coaching doesn’t need to be a character overhaul! Naga Siddharth provides the ultimate guide to the small changes leaders can make that create dramatic results. Start implementing these changes to your behaviour today!"

Remember, this is a short book and packs a punch as evidenced by a large number of testimonials from industry leaders.

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The right design of compensation has always been a major factor in building or destroying business value. This requires a partnership by the HR Manager and the Business Manager in ensuring equitable offers are made to employees, such that it motivates employees to contribute a little more. Doing so requires an indepth understanding of the business environment, core competence of the organization, role of HR, precedence that exists in the organization and theories of human behaviour. A Compensation professional needs to be more than a payroll professional and know more than just tax laws.

The book has been written for the HR professional who would like to refresh his conceptual understanding of compensation design, and make a real action plan for professional practice. This book is intended to be an ideas/insights book.

Contents of the book form part of a popular and sought after workshop by Shirish Joshi and has been delivered in India and abroad to owner CEOs, HR Heads, Business Heads, Compensation Heads and Government advisory committees.

The authors hope that the book will be able to drive better business outcomes through superior compensation design.

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The Checklist as a tool has been used extensively in the airline industry. When adapted in concept, it’s a great way to ensure consistently repeatable performance.

In the experience economy, people managers are often under a lot of pressure to deliver results, while ensuring that the human element is not compromised. This book is an attempt to simplify and support People Managers in India.

The reason the book has been specifically made for India is the cultural context, where it is not only just ok, but required that a personal touch is maintained between the manager and the reportee.

The vision of the authors is that the book is readily available on the mobiles / laptops / tablets and so on of people managers in companies and is used to ensure that steps are followed.

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Following are extracts from the Foreword by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith

"Authors from Shakespeare to Drucker talk about 'measures' but only now, with How Many, do we have a book that focuses on the importance of measures and metrics in an HR context....."

"His 'HR Metrix' is, dare I say it, revolutionary.............. "

"In my work as an executive coach and professor, I'm asked a myriad of questions that require long and convoluted answers. Yet, the next time someone asks me 'how many?' my answer is be just one, as long as that is Siddharth N."

This book was published free for three years between 2012 and 2015. However, to achieve a global reach, it is imperative to host it on Amazon. Since Amazon doesn't have a free ebook hosting option, the book has been hosted for sale.

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A short book that will help anyone who would like to master using HR Analytics to help drive business. The author has already published in the area of HR Analytics and is a practitioner in the industry.