After IIM-A, Lalu subject of mgmt book

After being invited by a top business school to lecture on the turnaround of the loss-making railways, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his management techniques will be the subject of a new book.

Pramod Batra, known for lessons on attitudinal management, is penning a book on Lalu Prasad's style of working, and how he put the railways on the path to profits.

"What attracted me was Lalu's rustic brilliance, and the way he could associate the basic management instincts of village life with the daily working of his ministry," Batra said.

"If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick," Lalu Prasad had told officials on taking charge as railway minister making it clear that he intended to apply the same philosophy to make the railways profitable.

Lalu also has offers to deliver lectures at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and the IAS Academy in Mussorie.