Lady, You’re the Boss - Apurva Purohit

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Apurva Purohit’s work shares leadership guidance through a gender-diversity lens, drawing on her experience scaling businesses and advocating women’s full potential. The book challenges workplace bias, explores impostor syndrome and strengths, and discusses how to let go, build sisterhood, and learn from real-life role models. It also covers midlife topics like menopause and crisis as part of durable leadership practice, then moves into communication, prioritization, curiosity, perseverance, implementation, measurement, team building, and accountability.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages189

Reading Time4 h 51 min

AccessFree to download

Prologue

PART ONE

AMinimum Life?

Imposter Syndrome

Strengths Not Weaknesses

Need to Feel Needed

Learning to Let Go

Last Woman Standing

The Lioness and the Dormouse

Subconscious Bias

All the Single Ladies

Token Woman

Finding Sisterhood

Real-Life Role Models

Menopause

Midlife Crisis

Somebody’s Something

PART TWO

Tough Love

Taming the Underling

Good Leaders Are Great Communicators

Prioritising: What Is Your First and Foremost Goal?

Curiosity Makes the Leader

Scylla and Charybdis: You Have No Choice But to Choose!

Perseverance

Planning the Implementation

Measurement and Monitoring

Creating Winning Teams

Kehna Karna Nibhana : Consistent Commitment Culture Vulture

Personal Accountability: I Am Because of Me

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Lady, You’re the Boss! Apurva Purohit is the President of the Jagran Group, one of India’s largest multimedia conglomerates. Amongst the very few women CEOsin India, she has over three decades of experience in building and scaling up high-quality businesses in the private equity and listed space. Apurva has been ranked as one of the Top 30 Most Powerful Women in Business as per Business Today 2016 and 2018, as well as Fortune India’s Most Powerful Women in Business 2018. She is also the author of the national bestseller Lady, You’re Not a Man! Apurva is an ardent advocate of gender diversity in the workplace and seeks to embolden and encourage women to reach their full potential through her books, mentorship and lecture series. She is a post-graduate from IIM-Bangalore. You can connect with Apurva at: [www.apurvapurohit.com](www.apurvapurohit.com) [www.twitter.com/apurva_purohit](www.twitter.com/apurva_purohit) [www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-purohit](www.linkedin.com/in/apurva-purohit) [www.facebook.com/womenatworkin](www.facebook.com/womenatworkin) [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) First published by Westland Publications Private Limited in 2019 1st Floor, A Block, East Wing, Plot No. 40, SP Infocity, Dr MGR Salai, Perungudi, Kandanchavadi, Chennai 600096 Westland, the Westland logo are the trademarks of Westland Publications Private Limited, or its affiliates. Copyright © Apurva Purohit, 2019 ISBN: 9789388754415 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organisations, places, events and incidents are either products of the author ’s imagination or used fictitiously. Alrights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher. [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) To My mother –Asha Kanwar, Sanjay and Siddharth [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Contents Prologue P ART O NE AMinimum Life? Imposter Syndrome Strengths Not Weaknesses Need to Feel Needed Learning to Let Go Last Woman Standing The Lioness and the Dormouse Subconscious Bias All the Single Ladies Token Woman Finding Sisterhood Real-Life Role Models Menopause Midlife Crisis Somebody’s Something P ART T WO Tough Love Taming the Underling Good Leaders Are Great Communicators Prioritising: What Is Your First and Foremost Goal? Curiosity Makes the Leader Scylla and Charybdis: You Have No Choice But to Choose! Perseverance Planning the Implementation Measurement and Monitoring Creating Winning Teams Kehna Karna Nibhana : Consistent Commitment Culture Vulture Personal Accountability: I Am Because of Me Epilogue Acknowledgements [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)

FAQs

How does the book recommend implementing and tracking leadership progress?

The book includes guidance on planning implementation and using measurement and monitoring to support execution. It ties these practices to creating winning teams and maintaining commitment culture.

Who is the author and what is her background?

Apurva Purohit is the President of the Jagran Group and a graduate from IIM-Bangalore. She has decades of experience building and scaling high-quality businesses and is an advocate for gender diversity in the workplace.

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