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  • Transganization – Book Review

    “The process of changing the organizational genetics at the time of changing market scenario or changing business model or during the phase-shift from one state to another is called TransGanization”. This is how the author defines the word transganization.

    The book, recently published by times books, makes it for an easy read. It is a relatively small book and finish-in-one-go kind of book. The additional disc given along with the book is a welcome add-on to listen to the authors views on the same. it probably could have been better if it could be more engaging than the monologue approach that it takes.

    The book succintly captures the operational issues cropping in during the trajectory of the growth of an organization. It very well explains the strategic approach to ensure the vitals are kept in place while the transition from a free spirited entrepreneurial start-up kind of a setup to a professionally run company. The interesting part of the book is where the author begins by explaining scenes from the movie Avatar, and links it to the main topic.

    The only disconnect with the book is – who is the target audience? Obviously not the big companies looking for a change!

    The entrepreneur who is ready to take off, and wants to build a perspective on organizatoinal change? Then why have all the copy-paste material from government sites as the the entire procedure and detail rules and processes involved?

    The book starts off well, but somewhere in the middle of the book it loses steam, and the large monotonous excerpts from the websites detailing the processes just tests your patience. You are here looking for live examples and stories of such changes in other companies. One would obviously go to the websites before taking the plunge. ( probably hire the author himself, to execute such a change in the company!)

    Overall, a good book to get a perspective on the concept, but it falls somewhere in between being an academic book and an engaging read.

    About the author, he is an engineer from IIT, and has done his management studies at ISB, Hyderabad. With more than 11 years of experience in the field of organizational change leadership he is probably the most apt person to write a book on this niche topic.

    Funny: Why was an ad of Jawed Habib’s pasted in the backside inside cover of the book? How is he involved with the book? Or have we reached the stage where even the covers are book are up for sale by the advertisers?

    (Disclosure: I received a free copy of the book, to review it)

  • Change

    This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton Season 2 edition 18; the eighteenth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

    A very good friend of mine from MBA days, MoBulAri, is getting a sex CHANGE. He is fed up being the guy and being responsible for everything in life. He is fed up of all the changes that he would have to bring upon himself after a month (he is getting married), and just wants to be a woman.

    I swear. He told this to me on his own last night.

    He seemed to be pretty serious about it, and actually searched for the contacts of the quacks who do it, on google. (trivia: “sex change quacks in Bangalore” query gives out 82,600 results from google!). phew! That sure is a big market out there.

    This got me thinking to the basic premise of the phenomena called CHANGE.

    The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change – Heraclitus

    There cannot be a statement truer than it. Change is an obvious thing to happen across our life, and for good that is. How boring would our monotonous life get? But well, one doubt here, will this statement also CHANGE with time?? Just asking.

    CHANGE. A six letter word, with so many meanings and definitions. First thing that comes to the mind on hearing the word “change” is to reach out to the left pocket and pluck out the lucky coin.

    In fact, Change is such a deep word, it helped a black guy become the president of the most powerful nation in the world.

    Such is change – a meaningless nothing in this giant play called world. The waves change, they may knock you down. The seasons change, they may make you sick. Everything around changes, and we inn all our stupidness look for stability in life. (pun intended!)

    Change is growth, and well as reliance has put it – growth is life. A person who does not change with time, would not be able to see, hear, feel, know or go towards anything more than what he has today. And what he has today would surely dwindle. Heard of a beast called inflation. Last heard it is hovering around 15%.

    People like change so much, that inspite of all the 2G, 3G talks on and crores of their money being robbed in broad daylight on their face, they are more concerned about changing their service providers.

    The thing with change is trying to manage it, and the trends that are inherent. How does one manage change? Do an MBA? No. Just choose. Change is nothing but making those choices.  For the better, or for the worse, time would tell. But change for sure.

    CHANGE, I say again, IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN LIFE.

    p.s.: MoBulAri was completely drunk last night.

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