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Book Review: ‘and the award for BEST SME of the year goes to…'

SME WORLD Bureau
Feb 2011

This book is an excellent piece of tool for all SMEs, Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs. It's like a plug and play concept. For all SMEs etc who are operational or just about to start, read this book and you will be able to put in place very fast all your processes which are required to run the organization. No need to think on your own. Simply implement these and thus save huge time which you could use for sales, technology, production etc from where your bread and butter come.

Implementation of these policies would ensure you have the best practices in place to attract talent, retain talent, get productivity out of them, have a vibrant organization, flow of positive energy etc. And all this is important to ensure that your people remain so motivated and skilled that they can produce best results for your mainstream.

The focus on PEOPLE is very important because it is said that 10 years from now, the world would have either aged people or teens and India would be the only place which would have middle aged population which would thus be in major demand globally. So, our advice is not to wait for ten years but to start focusing on people form today so that 10 years from now, people talks great things about your company. Read Ajay's book and implement all such practices and thoughts to make your company as the best place to work.

At the end, Ajay's book is not all about people only but also how you could put in place automation and processes so that you can achieve the same work with lesser people. And for SMEs, lesser people means cost saved which could be infused into your mainstream business!

As Ajay has had some wide exposure to setting up and running the operations of foreign companies in India, this book would add a lot of value to all such international organizations which have India operations so that they get better output form their India office.

In our opinion, the departmental heads of large organizations are equivalent to CEOs of small enterprises and they can pick up some very interesting thoughts form this book to apply in their department.

There are three creditable things about this book: one, the English is very simple making it very easy for the reader. Second, there are 100 chapters and each chapter is just of 3 pages. The reader can thus read in bits and pieces over weeks and not to be forced to read all in one shot.

Considering that each SME CEO is very busy, these compartmentalized learning may be convenient. Third, the learnings shared are not theoretical. Ajay Wahi shares the concept and then talks of how practically he implemented each concept. Fourthly, each chapter is concluded with 3 line son cautions while implementing each learning and also 3 lines to share what are the benefits of these learnings.

The book has well received. The author is now working on the second book: Get Noticed Get Promoted. While the first book focuses on SMEs, the second one would help all young managers and executives world over to portray themselves professionally in such a manner that they get noticed from thousands of other employees and thus get promoted. And if in each company so many employees start to behave much better, it's the gain for the organization eventually.

We will share some chapters in our future publications to give a you a flavour of Ajay's book.

To interact with Ajay and to buy book, contact 'ajaywahi@rediffmail.com'

The book costs Rs.900.00 but to members of SME WORLD, there is a special offer of Rs.590.00

for one copy, 900.00 for 2 copies, 1900 for 5 copies.

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