Includes index. Peshawaria, R. (2015). Be the change: Essays on leadership and governance. Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia).

Introduction: leadership and governance - a different perspective -- Section 1: Self leadership -- Confessions of a successful entrepreneur: lessons corporate executives can learn from entrepreneurs -- Five denials of the human brain -- Good leadership: says who? -- Mind the mind to lead -- The arrogance of growth -- To continue growing, quit the big job -- Are you a boss or a leader -- Is feedback overrated? -- There is no such thing as bad leadership -- The blind spot -- Advice to the woman leader aiming to enter the c-suite -- Section 2: Team leadership -- Subordinates of co-leaders -- Trust: the currency of leadership -- Feedback or feel bad -- Are you using your talent -- Are your star talents making a difference -- The new manager: zero to hero -- Shifting gears -- The key to motivating subordinates: stop trying -- Invisible women -- Section 3: Organisational leadership -- The three most important questions for profitable growth -- Be a sponsor, be a leader -- In Asia, power gets in the way -- Talent is like a knife in a sack -- Succession planing: let the cream naturally rise to the top -- The story of Jo -- Fighting and winning the war of talent -- Is ethnicity a barrier to growth is Asia? -- Rushed leadership -- Soft leadership creates strong companies -- Creating a winning culture -- Leadership lessons from the Indian summer -- Leading across borders? don't change a thing -- The great training robbery: why the 60 dollar billion investment in leadership development in sot working -- To maximize growth...you need a brave new HR -- Section 4: Corporate governance -- The other duty of corporate governance -- The benefits of more gender-diversified boardrooms -- Congratulations! you've been elected to the board. now what? -- Truth, justice, and the corporate way -- Stop giving NEDs share incentives -- Looking good versus doing well -- Why so serious? corporate governance lessons from the dark knight -- Compensation trends in financial services

Leadership often deals with very hard questions and these are not issues that should cause fear. The book thus deals with the various aspects and issues of corporate governance, an integral part of the leadership journey.