Leveraging Human Capital by K Ramkumar

Leveraging Human Capital is a practitioner’s account of the ‘business of managing people’. It offers a 
thoughtful and reflective overview of the modern employment landscape and what mental models and mindsets might be used to make work more productive and humane. This book examines the challenges involved in leveraging human capital to make financial capital productive and value accreting. It combines author’s years of experience with works of scholars and everyday business situations to stimulate thinking on how leaders can motivate and channelize their human capital to create disproportionate returns.  Discussion on topics like Human Ability and Converting Potential into Performance makes it a timeless read- without being limited to a single era or a single culture.

Contents

• A Peep Through the Looking Glass: The Evolution of Business and HR
• A Relook at Motivation and Satisfaction
• Understanding Human Capability
• Human Learning
• Making Sense of Culture
• The Many Nuances of Nurturing
• A Few Truths and the Many Myths of Performance
• Leadership Retold
• Leveraging Human Capital Needs Good Governance