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CSR Strategies by Sri Urip

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely recognized as a worthy commitment to ensure sustainable benefit for both corporations and communities. CSR is also becoming an important base for businesses to build trust and confidence in their stakeholders, with the potential to provide a competitive edge. As the world beats a path to the booming markets of Asia, former Unilever Indonesia Chairman, Sri Urip, explains in her new book, CSR Strategies: Corporate Social Responsibility for a Competitive Edge in Emerging Markets, how CSR can provide a satisfying competitive advantage.

Although the principles of CSR are essentially the same globally, each location still calls for different emphasis in the implementation process. Successful application of CSR principles is directly influenced by the business understanding of its business strategy in proportion to the needs of the local community.

This book provides readers with various case studies, showing how the adoption of appropriate CSR activities will ensure a superior triple bottom line result in terms of financial, environmental and social aspects of business success.

Sri Urip

Sri Urip is a former CEO of PT Unilever Indonesia. During her 30 years of service with Unilever, Sri Urip combined the CSR principles of continuous community building and development with creative marketing for market expansion, resulting in the sustainability of Unilever’s dominance in these markets up to the present day. Sri Urip is also a former Independent Commissioner of PT Multi Bintang Indonesia Tbk (a member of the Heineken Group), PT Sepatu Bata Tbk (a member of Bata International) and PT Dynaplast Tbk. She is currently Independent Commissioner of PT Bank CIMB Niaga Tbk. As a seasoned CSR practitioner with long practical experience, Sri Urip is one of the most sought-after speakers on Corporate Social Responsibility for various forums in Indonesia.

Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Ives Peigner

Non-Fiction

1. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

2. Eat Pray Love (Movie-Tie In): One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

3. Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain

4. Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice In The Dock by Alan Shadrake

5. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

6. Speeches That Changed the World by Editor-Emma Beare

7. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

8. Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman’s Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov

9. Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself by Florence Littauer

10. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

Business and Management

1. Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald Trump; Bill Zanker

2. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh

3. Nice Girls Don’T Get The Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make…. by Lois P. Frankel

4. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur

5. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

6. How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad by William J. O’Neil

7. Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki; Sharon L. Lechter

8. A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing by Jim Rogers

9. KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays by Joel Comm

10. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity by David Sibbet

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

2. Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

3. The Last Song (Movie Tie-in) by Nicholas Sparks

4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

5. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

6. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

7. Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw

8. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

9. Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger

10. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

Managerial Decision Making Leadership by Caroline Wang

The modern manager faces a bewildering range of challenges every single day. Their ability to make critical decisions, often under pressure, can directly determine the future success of the company and their career. It is therefore surprising that so few managers take the time to learn the art of decision making.

In Managerial Decision Making and Leadership: The Essential Pocket Strategy Book, readers will learn that quality decision making is a competence that can be acquired according to a simple framework. The framework is practical and easy-to-remember, consisting of two acronyms: GPA and IPO – GPA for decision content quality (Goal, Priority, Alternatives); and IPO for decision process quality (Information, People, Objective reasoning). The book places emphasis on leading a team to make decisions, even though the framework can be used for personal and individual decisions.

By using this common decision-making framework, managers and leaders will gain credibility and team support for the decision, will confidently articulate, promote, and defend the decision, and will have made the necessary preparations for successful implementation when the decision-making process is complete. This proven framework from one of Asia’s most dynamic leadership experts will improve the quality of your decisions and change the way you do business.

Caroline Wang

Caroline Wang is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She teaches the MBA and Executive MBA programs, with course topics covering Managerial Decision Making and Leadership, Managerial Communication, Leading Across Diversity, and Business Leadership. In addition, she is also visiting Professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and National University of Singapore for their executive programs.

Caroline was formerly Vice President and highest ranking Asian female executive for IBM globally with over 25 years of working experience in the United States and across Asia Pacific. During her stint in IBM her responsibilities spanned 12 functional areas and her roles included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer.

Caroline currently serves as Board Director for three multinational companies in China.

Conversations on Leadership by Lan Liu

A veritable who’s who in leadership, Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus carries a series of author Lan Liu’s dialogue with 13 of the most influential thought leaders in the world of leadership today: John Kotter, Warren Bennis, Howard Gardner, James March, Jim Kouzes, Noel Tichy, Bill George, Peter Senge, Jerry Porras, Joseph Badaracco Jr., provide a broad spectrum of views from the United States; Manfred Kets de Vries offers a European perspective and China’s Cho-yun Hsu and Debashis Chatterjee from India add a distinctly Asian flavor to the mix.

These masters, with varied backgrounds in management, history, and psychology, enlighten us by addressing in their unique ways the vital leadership issues: What are the essential qualities of leadership? How do we develop leaders? Does culture matter in leadership? How does leadership differ from management? How do we lead effectively? – With each leader’s distinctive approach, this book provides the multi-faceted truths of leadership. Their answers, combined in one volume, provide a panoramic view and thorough understanding of leadership.

The conversational format lends a vivid immediacy to the thinking of these modern masters and the author has been able to neatly summarize and integrate the eight disciplines of leadership for quick and actionable guidance for any leadership practitioner.

Lan Liu

Lan Liu is a researcher at Peking University’s Center for China Strategic Studies and adjunct professor at the Beijing Peter F. Drucker Academy, where he teaches leadership courses on their executive programs. The author of five books in Chinese, including People First, Master Classes of Leadership and Ten Truths of Management, for seven years he was editor-in-chief of Chief Executive China, a leading business-management magazine with around 200,000 subscribers. In a varied career, he has been a columnist of China Business Times, associate director of case center of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and deputy general manager of an advertising agency. Liu holds a B.A. in International Politics and an M.A. in International & Intercultural Communication from Peking University, and an M.P.A. in International Development from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

The Sages by Charles R. Morris

A bestselling author examines the perspectives and principles of three pillars of the financial world—as well as their judgments on the current crisis and the path to recovery in The Sages.

Charles R. Morris

Charles R. Morris

In addition to the recent New York Times bestseller The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, Charles R. Morris has written eleven books, including The Tycoons, a Barrons’ Best Book of 2005. A lawyer and former banker, Mr. Morris’s articles and reviews have appeared in many publications including The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense by Lawrence G. McDonald

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now.  What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers–right from the belly of the beast.

In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors.

We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor…

Lawrence G. McDonald

Lawrence G. McDonald

Lawrence G. McDonald is a managing director of Pangea Capital Management LP. He was, until 2008, vice president of distressed debt and convertible securities trading at Lehman Brothers. He ran an extremely successful joint venture between the firm’s fixed income and equity divisions and was one of Lehman’s most consistently profitable traders. McDonald is also cofounder of Convertbond.com, named by Forbes magazine as “Best of the Web” from 2000 to 2003, specifically citing it as the Web’s premier source for convertible securities information, valuation, and news.

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Non-Fiction

1. Eat, Pray, Love (Movie Tie-In) by Elizabeth Gilbert

2. Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain

3. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

4. Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

5. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

6. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

7. Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl – A Woman’s Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship by Sherry Argov

8. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

9. Speeches That Changed the World by Editor-Emma Beare

10. Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew) by Tom Plate

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

2. Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

3. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

4. The Last Song (Movie Tie-In) by Nicholas Sparks

5. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

6. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

7. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

9. Room by Emma Donoghue

10. Exit Wound by Andy Mcnab

Local Author

1. Rojak: Bite-Sized Stories by Amir Muhammad

2. Found in Malaysia by The Nut Graph

3. Indahnya Amalan Doa by Dato’ Ismail Kamus

4. Nasib Melayu di Bumi Melayu by Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah

5. Jadi ‘Cool’ + Positif – Psikologi Suka-Suka edited by Wan Erni Liza Mat Izatzi

6. Pemilik Cintaku Setelah Allah dan Rasul by Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin

7. Mencari Pasangan Hidup by Ustaz Emran Ahmad

8. Mama Saya Lapar by Wardina Safiyyah

9. Senjata Mukmin by Haji Muhidir Haji Tamjis

10. Iskandar Malaysia – A Story of Singapore & Kuala Lumpur by Ho Chin Soon

Weekly list compiled by MPH Bookstores, Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, “animal spirits” are driving financial events worldwide. In Animal Spirits, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and put forward a bold new vision that will transform economics and restore prosperity.

Akerlof and Shiller reassert the necessity of an active government role in economic policy-making by recovering the idea of animal spirits, a term John Maynard Keynes used to describe the gloom and despondence that led to the Great Depression and the changing psychology that accompanied recovery. Like Keynes, Akerlof and Shiller know that managing these animal spirits requires the steady hand of government—simply allowing markets to work won’t do it. In rebuilding the case for a more robust, behaviorally informed Keynesian¬ism, they detail the most pervasive effects of animal spirits in contemporary economic life—such as confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes—and show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for them.

Animal Spirits offers a road map for reversing the financial misfortunes besetting us today. Read it and learn how leaders can channel animal spirits—the powerful forces of human psychology that are afoot in the world economy today.