About Author
Author
Pradeep Chhabra
Pradeep Chhabra is an astute and result oriented professional with more than 4 decades (1976-2017) of experience both in the Public and Private sector in managing business and business development activities in downstream of Oil, Gas and Petrochemical. He has in his long career established many new businesses in these segments which are now multi billion dollars by revenue. He was born and brought up in Delhi. He is a Mechanical engineer by education and marketer at heart and lives in Delhi with his wife, Meenakshi and son, Siddhant. He enjoys listening to music, loves travelling and reading non-fiction. He is a firm believer in raising the professional and personal standards of others. Has extensive footprints in social media on LinkedIn , Facebook & Twitter. He can be reached at pradeepchhabra@hotmail.com
Pradeep has so far published seven nonfiction books, one in each year of 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021, 2022 and 2023 post his regular job. He intends continuing with this passion of writing nonfiction for years to come. Books connect the dots between Academics and Professional life and are intended for Aspiring, Ambitious and Adventurous professionals.
PRADEEP CHHABRA'S BOOKS ON AMAZON
Latest book released in Feb 2023 is
BOARDROOM BASICS
The book gives you a low down on what all board members of an organisation deal with or are expected to deal with. The board room is a place where bold ideas become a reality, where strategy is crafted and decisions are made that shape the future of the company, great leaders are forged through the fire of tough decisions and heated debates, and where visionaries go to turn their dreams into action, where the rubber meets the road, where the talk ends and the work begins.
The board room is a place where the difference between success and failure is determined by the quality of the decisions made, and where the company's direction is set. Its future is determined, where the fate of the company is decided, where the best ideas win and the weakest are discarded, where leaders come to lead, and where the future is shaped.
You will be able to assess how strong and competent your company board is on various attributes of knowledge, integrity, transparency, commitment, governance and for the benefit of employees and stakeholders.
Who should be a board member, what makes a board weak what can ruin the future of employees & business are covered in the book...............................Read More
LEADERS LISTEN To LEAPFROG
Focus of the book is to bring it to your attention the most underrated skill of Listening. If you develop the skill of listening, your path to progress in personal and professional life will get impetus for an accelerated growth. Developing listening skill can change the course of your life, can take you to greater heights and increase your likability index to an exceedingly prominent level. Listening does not require any talent; it is a habit if developed from early days can impact your career.
Listening is effortless, unlike reading which requires effort. Listening adds value to your skill sets. Listening helps you build relations. Listening enhances your personal brand image. Listening helps in solving many problems existent or imaginary. You will undergo many stages in your life, many events in your life where you need to listen attentively, casually, comprehensively, critically, actively, empathetically, and in many other modes. In case you are in a leadership role, and you do not listen to the persons in your team, or encourage them to speak, your leadership may not last for long. In case you are a salesperson and prefer to speak more than you listen to prospective customers, you may be found wanting in your skill sets. Have seen quite a few salespersons who speak endlessly to make a pitch about their product or proposal without any break. Their intent is to offload the entire office information, data, and prices etc. to the customer at the first opportunity. This does not help in taking any deal forward or closing the deal. Always seek to understand before making another person understand as to what you are wanting to say.........................Read More
MANAGE YOUR BOSS
MANAGE YOUR BOSS-Learn the Art, this book, is all about managing your Boss(es) all the time and most of the time in your career. You need this skill, ability, and trait in all stages of your career, be it in the beginning, middle, or end of your career. If you succeed in managing, say, 60-70% of Bosses in your career, let me assure you that you will make a mark on your career irrespective of the industry, domain, or department you will work in. This book will take you through the variety of Bosses we come across in our professional lives, their positive and negative traits, and how you manage all of them. With this perspective, let me unfold the relevant aspects to you in detail.
As you step into the last stage of academics, Campus placement and a hunt for a job is the uppermost concern in your mind. All of us look forward to working in a sector, which is of our interest, depending on our upbringing or background, qualification, and skill sets.
Within a sector, a company, the domain you work in is equally relevant to start your career. Within the domain, the choice of the department also makes sense.
We all know that few people achieve this aim to get the first job that they want. The percentage of people achieving this will be limited to a single digit. This number is just a guess and estimate and not based on a study of any kind. In case you disagree with the number, it is perfectly fine with me. Not everyone is blessed to get to work in an area of his choice or interest. But then, if you get the domain or department you love to work in, if you get to do what you enjoy, work becomes your passion, and you are on a joy ride in your professional life. Your dream fulfilled, now starts the journey of your career. All is set for you to achieve whatever you dream..........Read More
READ - YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS SUCCEED
You do not have to read what Mukesh Ambani or Satya Nadella or Jeff Bezos or Anand Mahindra or Bill Gates or Nandan Nilekani or Virat Kohli is reading . Just be aware that they read a lot .
Read what you like ; Read the way you like ; Read when you like : Read where you like : Read if you have just finished Academics. Read in presence of your children . Read with your family .Read if you are an expectant mother. Read irrespective of trade or profession you are in . Let your TV remote be quarantined at least for 7 days in a week, if not more.
You will rediscover, reorient , reengineer , rebuild yourself along with your family. A newer you will emerge. You will evolve continuously with the changing times.
Be aware that you are hurting yourself by not reading. Your personal development has stopped . Your mental growth has halted . You are already behind the persons who read regularly . Very soon , You will be wondering as to what happened , how it happened and when it happened . It happens slowly but surely. Just reading newspaper is not enough . Just reading what pops up on google search is not enough.
Discover the joy of reading ! Install the bug of reading in your brain ; you will be on superhighway to get to next levels continuously . Suddenly you will discover what all you missed in life ....Congrats if you read this : take the next step to begin right away !
Books provide the right fodder , books provide right kind of nourishment all the time for your mind . What you eat is important and at the same time what goes in our mind is equally significant . An upset stomach is as dangerous as an upset mind. Minds also need a regular wash . You may have to apply Ctrl-alt-del at times on few things lying unused or spreading virus or venom in your thought process in your mind . Books do that very quietly and books are the most economical way out gir such remedies . Ignore books at your own peril !
Success comes through iteration : Invent , launch, reinvent , relaunch , start over , rinse , repeat again and again .
READ - YOUR FAMILY ALWAYS SUCCEED
THE ACCIDENTAL ENGINEERS -TOPPERS EXCUSE (Lessons from personal and professional lives of accomplished engineers):2020
Connects the dots between academic life and professional world. Professional world and Academics are two different places. Real life lessons have been drawn from the college activities like copying assignments, travel, annual festivals, attendance, lectures and from professional world like missing a promotion , being in comfort zone , listening with eyes, choosing a mentor, loving your problems in personal and professional life. Book has a foreword by Mr. Arvind Saxena Chairman UPSC ; who finds the book interesting
CONQUERING CORPORATE CIRCUS ( Be a lion and not a mouse !Be a butterfly and not an ant) 2019
On cannot live in isolation and therefore always be conscious of the fact that way you speak, your choice of words, way you speak, way you walk , way you dress, way you address and treat people below you who are not so powerful , way you behave when no one is watching you, way you smile ( Fake or Genuine) defines you. There is lot of power in your etiquettes which can compensate for your professional skill sets. Book is endorsed by Mr. Gurmeet Singh, Director (Marketing), Indian Oil and has a foreword by Himanshu Kapania, as Vice Chairman Grasim Industries Ltd ( Aditya Birla group) Book is a part of joining kit of a large number of all new Engineers , MBAs , CAs of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
UNCORK YOURSELF NOT BOTTLES (Step up to next level of Professional & Personal life) 2018
It is about you, your career, your boss, and your surrounding in professional life. Quoting real life incidents , book captures some interesting insights on managing your boss, creating your own mental gym , improving your trust, likability, approachability index are few of many other areas of focus for stepping up to next level of personal and professional life. Book is endorsed extensively by many on goodreads.com like Mr. GK Satish, Director Planning and Business development, Indian Oil , Professor Sandeep Puri, Professor , Asian Institute of Management Manila , Philippines.