Broomfield, Colorado, January 23, 2024 ‘India’s Road To Transformation: Why Leadership Matters’ is a fact-filled book on India’s transformation process under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Co-authored by Professor Jagdish Sheth, well known for his books on global competition, geopolitics, and consumer behavior, and Gyanendra Singh, a pioneer in category management, the book shows how a transformational leader can save a drowning country and sail its ship. The authors compare revolutionary leaders like Deng Xiaoping, Park Chung Hee, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Helmut Kohl, Lee Kuan Yew, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt and how they achieved long-lasting transformation in their countries. The reigns of these great leaders serve to set an example for how a leader must be — pragmatic, tireless, and inspirational.
The book goes on to describe different types of leadership styles — Situational, Transactional, and Transformational — and how each style ultimately affects the growth trajectory of a country.
Currently, India is the fifth-largest economy in the world and is growing at a rate of 7.3% (as of 2023) and it is projected that it will become the third-largest economy by 2030. The authors concur that a country like India, with its diverse ethnic cultures and differing ideologies, needs a leader that unites them together to achieve this goal and ultimately raise India to superpower status.
In the book, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s revolutionary efforts of streamlining taxation through GST, demonetization, space exploration, schemes for health insurance, and foreign relationships and policies are tracked and juxtaposed against the previous governments. A key part of the policy is to invest in digital technologies to govern the nation. The book posits that even though the efforts of the previous governments were not ineffective, the ideologies of their leaders were a setback for India and missed a golden opportunity to open up its economy during Nehru’s reign.
Through data from the IMF and PwC reports, the authors have laid down a fact-based argument for reelecting the incumbent government to ensure political continuity. “To achieve transformation within a reasonable period, say 15 to 20 years, India will require deep and widespread reforms—likely only possible under a transformational leader along the lines of Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew, or Park Chung Hee,” says Gyanendra Singh, the co-author of this book. “Specific to India, it is appropriate to ask how far India has come on its journey, what should India’s transformation look like, how does Prime Minister Modi’s term compare to previous regimes, and whether Modi is the “transformational” leader that India needs at this point. If not Modi, then who else can rise to the challenge?”
The book is now available on NetGalley where interested readers can request a review copy and leave their review. (https://www.vibrantpublishers.com/pages/india-s-road-to-transformation-why-leadership-matters-netgalley-release?_pos=2&_sid=d4e631be8&_ss=r)