Evolution of people management

Book review of CEO Chess Master or Gardener: How Game-Changing HR Reforms Created a New Future for Bank of Baroda

CEO Chess Master or Gardener: How Game-Changing HR Reforms Created a New Future for Bank of Baroda

Anil K Khandelwal

Oxford University Press

360 pages; Rs 750

It not often that we have an academic who is also a hands-on manager. There are always occasions when senior professionals take a break to write their memoirs, teach and do an academic type of job. The obverse that an academic makes a switch to a job of a hands-on professional is even more difficult. It is in this binary world that we need to see Anil Khandelwal’s book. Although the title may