Catagory: Non Fiction

POWER REDEFINED: Women at the Top on What Really Matters

Power is a subject women rarely speak about comfortably. Yet across 18 raw and unfiltered conversations with women leaders, a messy mosaic emerges—complex, contradictory, and compelling.

Power is not about titles or hierarchy. The real seat of power is internal: clarity about what you stand for, confidence to act on it, and the calm to hold your line when challenged. Women define power through connection and influence, not dominance. Power is not a weapon; it is a relationship.

What holds women back is not lack of talent or hunger, but years of conditioning about how they “should” behave. Power is a muscle that strengthens with practice—every hard decision, every moment of speaking up, and every instance of holding your ground in intimidating rooms.

Different stories across multiple spectrums. A scientist-turned-CEO who sold her company four times over, navigating corporate giants twice her age. Executives who travelled days after childbirth while redefining what leadership looks like. Women who walked into rooms of 200 people and instinctively knew who mattered. The turning point is always internal: the courage to disrupt, the decision to ask for what she truly wants, the willingness to risk before feeling ready, the moment a woman chooses herself.

Power is not something women wait for or chase after. You already have it. You just need to step wholly into it.

This book is for women ready to redefine power on their own terms and men who understand that the world is a better place when both hold the reins.

This book is about how to transform a company, organization, country or individual to achieve goals thought to be impossible by innovation and deep change in the way things are done. To add to his concept and method, author Idris Jala recounts his own vast experiences in many successful transformations at Shell, a national airline, companies, organizations, departments and governments to provide solid practical support for his methodology and discussion points for real problems on the shop floor.

The focal point of this transformation is to set near impossible targets which will require a sea change in how things are done. While the major strategic targets are set by top management in consultation with others and are non-negotiable, the subgoals which feed into this are decided by those who will implement the transformation, bringing about ownership, motivation and a renewed zeal for achievement.

It’s all about what Idris calls Big Fast Results or BFR, achieving impossibly high targets by a radical upheaval in processes, procedures and actions, all of which are measurable and have definite time lines. It is devoid of jargon, readable, clear and concise enabling any interested person to understand and practice it. There is no book like it anywhere – it takes the reader through every step necessary to achieve BFR, steps which have been tested and proven in the crucible of experience.

Idris has direct experience in all that he talks about and advocates and offers many case examples to back up his book.

AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF AI AS THE ULTIMATE CO-FOUNDER—RESHAPING STARTUPS INTO ADAPTIVE, DATA-DRIVEN ENTITIES THAT THINK, LEARN, AND EVOLVE IN REAL TIME.

Inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 prediction of artificial intelligence (AI) enabling a one-person unicorn, Arnaud Frade examines how AI’s rapid advancements can empower entrepreneurs to build an effective AI-first modern startup—the ‘sentient startup’.

Beyond operationalizing efficiency, by integrating machine intelligence into the very DNA of a company, founders can create ‘sentient’ businesses that leverage AI for strategic decision-making, product evolution, marketing, and operations at a scale and speed beyond human capabilities.

However, the author does not ignore the challenges: the book warns against blind reliance on AI, highlighting risks such as bias, privacy concerns, and over-dependence on data-driven metrics. It underscores that ethical considerations and human oversight remain crucial to ensuring AI-driven businesses are not just intelligent but also responsible.

The Sentient Startup provides a framework and offers practical insights for entrepreneurs, tech leaders, and investors to harness AI’s power effectively to redefine the future of entrepreneurship.

Can we grow a tree (a sustainable future) in dry soil (our current economy)?

For centuries, our economic engine has driven growth by consuming the very foundations of the future—leading to mounting debt, extreme inequality, and environmental crisis. We are fast approaching a point where capitalism—once seen as the engine of progress—is now generating more problems than it solves. At this critical juncture, we need a New Economic Engine. Just as healthy soil is essential for a tree to grow, the right economic foundation is critical for a sustainable future.

Sustainomy is a global framework that transforms growth that consumes the future into growth that creates it. Because the 20th century economic model has created success for the private sector, it is fitting that Sustainomy builds upon the strengths of that model to succeed in the 21st century and positions the private sector as the spearhead of change. As societal and environmental dimensions, combined with intelligence, become the new rule of competition, the private sector together with people and the public sector that adapt will seize emerging opportunities, while those that don’t risk becoming irrelevant.

This book challenges the conventional language of growth—urging bold leaders across all sectors to envision a future where sustainable growth needs to entail wealth distribution, social well-being, and regenerative environment.