Brevity is the soul of this kit
B.S. Thaur

A Manager’s Toolkit
by Sukul Lomash. Sterling. Rs 350. Pages 346.

A father was beseeching his son: "Son do not make haste lest you should get late". (Beta, kahli na kar, dair ho jaigi). To put it in managerial parlance, the father’s was a time-management advice, of which, neither of the two were aware as a technique. Ordinarily, management tips of this level are a part of awakened society’s culture and those who are aware and put these to use make generally a success in life.

In ancient Indian history, we have Kautilya’s Arathashastra, a 1,500-year-old classic on state-craft replete with strategies and techniques to deal with every situation and every aspect of human behaviour. It is relevant even today. In India, management as a technique came only with the spurt in industrialisation. In the wake of the opening of economy in the early 1990s when commercial and other development activities were unleashed, entrepreneurial and managerial talent became much sought after.

Important management and business training institutes got a boost and many more similar institutes were set up. The book ‘A Manager’s Toolkit’ has, therefore, not come too soon in the realms of management. The field of management has been for quite some time expanding so speedily that more and more similar books which can keep pace with the modern charging scenario are the need of the hour.

The 346-page paperback book contains 175 topics on different aspects of managerial activity in an industrial and business enterprise. The author has ably displayed a superb command of brevity without sacrificing the substance. Each topic, so vital to the managerial stream, is covered in not more than a-page-and-a-half, which gives impetus to the content and the reader-manager tends to learn it by heart.

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