Authors of this travelogue, Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar and Shyam Bhatawdekar traveled extensively on business in their capacity of top notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. Yet they felt that traveling and seeing different places as a part of their business driven journeys was not as complete an experience of the visited places, as they would have liked it to be. That realization gave a kick-start to their additional journeys purely as dedicated tourists. Simultaneously, they started journalizing their various travel and sightseeing experiences. Now they have decided to bring their travelogues in open in order to share these with all. This book narrates their journey to Scandinavian countries and Russia.

For assured growth and progress of desirable dimensions in personal, professional, family and social life every person should resort to "Goal Setting" on a perennial basis. It should become a natural habit with every ambitious person who is out to find meaning in life. "Goal Setting" if done properly helps you to define your dreams and aspirations in more clear and concrete terms in the form of achievable goals. Then it becomes easy to take the required actions to achieve the desired end results. Considering its huge benefits in all walks of human life a thorough knowledge of "Goal Setting" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Goal Setting" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

"Quality Circles" is one of the most beneficial Japanese management systems. Large number of organizations all over the world adopted this system due to its significant contribution towards overall organizational improvements. The salient feature of "Quality Circles" is its facility to involve a large number of people of an organization in the problem solving process and to keep them highly motivated. Thus both- the organization as well its people- benefit in various ways. Its other aspect is its applicability to every kind of organization. Considering its huge benefits and scope a thorough knowledge of "Quality Circles" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Quality Circles" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

"5S Housekeeping" is simple, methodical and effective system of housekeeping. This system was first implemented in Japan. Later it has been adopted all over the world because of its multifarious advantages. You can implement it not only in factories, offices and stores but also at homes, hospitals and schools. And every individual can do it. The investments to implement "5S" are absolutely minimal and the benefits are enormous. It is also a basic system for launching various other quality systems like TPM, TQM, JIT etc. Considering its tremendous benefits a thorough knowledge of "5S Housekeeping" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this important subject in the shortest possible time, the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "5S" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book "Essentials of 5S Housekeeping" becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar tell you a refreshingly different love story in this novel. The story revolves around Shaan and Kelly. It also revolves around Shaan and Medhavi. Shaan is an orphan adopted by a couple- husband and wife belong to different religions. They are not aware of the religion of their adopted son and hesitate to bestow him any religion. He grows up a fine adult and decides to remain religionless. His first love affair with his classmate Medhavi fails as the girl turns down his proposal of marriage because he is religionless. He accepts it and starts concentrating on his career and meets up with another girl (Kelly) who is also in the same boat as Shaan- a religionless creature. They gradually fall in love not because they are in the same boat but because they start loving each other truly. Shaan and the two girls are destined to meet in Japan at a place devastated by the worst tsunami. Shaan rescues his first love and now she falls in love with Shaan head over heels. The second girl knows their relationship by now and wonders if Shaan will breakup with her and return to his first love.

Most people often misunderstand time management. They see it in a very limited sense as synonymous to constructing the timetable of daily or weekly activities and strictly following that schedule. Some sophistication is added to the process by introducing prioritization of activities in deciding the calendar. But time management is much more than this. In this book it is described as taking control of our life and managing ourselves. It emphasizes on the correct choice of projects, tasks and activities related to your short-term, long-term and lifetime aspirations, objectives and goals. Therefore, a thorough knowledge of time management in its new avatar becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this important subject in the shortest possible time, the authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the appropriate "essentials" of time management in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. So the book becomes an authentic document.

Performance management and performance appraisal are often confused with each other. Additionally these are often thought as management gimmicks best relegated to HR guys of an organization. The truth is that in today's highly competitive environment performance management and therefore, performance appraisal have become strategic interventions. Managers and employees at every level and from every department of every organization will become more effective individually and organizationally if they start using these two interventions seriously as their important management tools. This book therefore should become an important reference document for every manager and every employee. To assimilate the required knowledge on the subject quickly only the essential and value-adding aspects of performance management and performance appraisal have been included in the book leaving out the nonessential, unnecessary and non-value adding stuff. The authors of the book are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

Do you feel less confident when you deal with others? Do you succumb to others' demands and do things that you do not wish to do? Do you want to be on equal footing with others but keep feeling otherwise? Do you end up shouting and getting angry with others to be on par with them? Have you become habitual of always proving your superiority to others by being aggressive? Is something wrong the way you approach people? If answers to above-mentioned questions are "yes" then it makes a strong case for being "assertive" rather than continuing the existing submissive or aggressive behavior. Therefore a thorough knowledge of "Assertive Behavior" becomes imperative. To facilitate gaining the knowledge in this vital subject in the shortest time, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar included only the "essentials" of "Assertive Behavior" in the book. The authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors. And so the book becomes an authentic document on the subject.

The famous saying "Health is Wealth" is not a cliche. Having good health is more valuable than having material wealth since you can't enjoy the wealth without health. The fact is health itself is an important kind of wealth. Even if you do not possess much money or assets you can still be far happier being in great shape physically, emotionally and mentally if you possess the most important asset called "health." That's the reason for bringing forth this book to benefit everyone and to remind about the things you can do to keep healthy throughout your life, not feel miserable and stay capable of creating and enjoying this wealth as well as other types of wealth. The suggestions the authors have made in this book for keeping healthy are very simple, quite practical, most economical and easily understandable. The entire book has been written in a layman's language keeping out all the difficult to understand jargons. This book is based on collective native wisdom derived from close observations of the persons who lived happily and healthily till age 90 to 100 plus years. It should not be treated as a medical or professional prescription from a doctor or a nutrition expert or a physical trainer or any other professional health practitioner. Authors are top-notch business executives, successful entrepreneurs, highly sought after business and management consultants, eminent management gurus and scholars, authentic human behavior experts and prolific authors.