Executive Briefing

In each episode, our guest expert recommends at least one reading material (books, articles, websites etc…) to expand your knowledge on the topic discussed.

Find the collection here (sorted alphabetically, by title name):

Books

articles

reports

misc

Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire

Kris Manjapra (2014)

Recommended in Episode 29 – Imagining Asia After Europe

Link to Book

Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century

Sugata Bose (2024)

Recommended in Episode 29 – Imagining Asia After Europe

Link to Book

BACKSTAGE: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years

Montek Singh Ahluwalia (2020)

Recommended in Episode 9 – Corporate Strategies for Emerging Markets

Link to Book

Bloc by Bloc: How to Build a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order

Steven Weber (2019)

Recommended in Episode 26 – Geopolitical Intelligence and Corporate Planning

Link to Book

Bucking the Buck: US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash Against the Dollar

Daniel McDowell (2023)

Recommended in Episode 6 – International Sanctions

Link to Book

Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies: India as a Case Study

Dhanasree Jayaram (2022)

Recommended in Episode 7 – Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies

Link to Book

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

Ian Bremmer (2013)

Recommended in Episode 21 – The Rise of Middle Powers

Link to Book

Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

Stefan Dercon (2022)

Recommended in Episode 2 – Doing Business in China

Link to Book

Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

Alex Edmans (2020)

Recommended in Episode 10 – Measuring and Managing ESG Performance

Link to Book

Handbook on Think Tanks in Public Policy

D E Abelson and C J Rastrik (2021)

Recommended in Episode 19 – Expert Influence in Policy and Decision Making

Link to Book

India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Ashoka Mody (2023)

Recommended in Episode 20 – Social Inequality as a Business Risk

Link to Book

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez (2020)

Recommended in Episode 14 – Corporate Strategy and Political Risk

Link to Book

Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought

Kavitha Iyer (2021)

Recommended in Episode 20 – Social Inequality as a Business Risk

Link to Book

Lichtspiel

Daniel Kehlmann (2023)

Recommended in Episode 25 – US-German Transatlantic Relations

Link to Book (in German)

Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (2006)

Recommended in Episode 16 – Corporate Strategy in the Age of Global Uncertainty and Volatility

Link to Book

Networking Through Kafala: Skilled Workers and Transnational Networks in the Governance of Health Care Migration in the Gulf

C A Ennis (2022)
Chapter 7 in Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses

Recommended in Episode 13 – The Migration Governance Complex

Link to Book

Political Risk: How Business and Organisations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

Condoleezza Rice, Amy B. Zegart (2019)

Recommended in Episode 26 – Geopolitical Intelligence and Corporate Planning and Episode 4 – Identify and Manage Political Risks

Link to Book

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David J Chalmers (2023)

Recommended in Episode 25 – US-German Transatlantic Relations

Link to Book

Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History

Wang Gungwu (2012)

Recommended in Episode 29 – Imagining Asia After Europe

Link to Book

Riding the Tiger: How to Execute Business Strategy in India

Wilfried Aulbur and Amit Kapoor (2016)

Recommended in Episode 16 – Corporate Strategy in the Age of Global Uncertainty and Volatility

Link to Book

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

Rita McGrath (2021)

Recommended in Episode 16 – Corporate Strategy in the Age of Global Uncertainty and Volatility

Link to Book

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalisation

Harold James (2023)

Recommended in Episode 22 – How Crises Shape Globalisation

Link to Book

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E Tetlock and Dan Gardner (2015)

Recommended in Episode 23 – 2024 Trends to Watch

Link to Book

The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation

Moritz Altenried (2022)

Recommended in Episode 13 – The Migration Governance Complex

Link to Book

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

Roger A Pielke Jr. (2007)

Recommended in Episode 19 – Expert Influence in Policy and Decision Making

Link to Book

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh (2021)

Recommended in Episode 7 – Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies

Link to Book

The Post-American World: And The Rise of the Rest

Fareed Zakaria (2011)

Recommended in Episode 21 – The Rise of Middle Powers

Link to Book

The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

C A Ennis and N Blarel (2022)

Recommended in Episode 13 – The Migration Governance Complex

Link to Book

The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business With Dictators

Mathias Döpfner (2023)

Recommended in Episode 22 – How Crises Shape Globalisation

Link to Book

The Uses and Abuses of Weaponised Interdependence

D W Drezner, H Farrell, A L Newman (2021)

Recommended in Episode 12 – Lessons from the Munich Security Conference 2023

Link to Book

There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women

Mary Ellen Iskenderian (2023)

Recommended in Episode 28 – Achieving Financial Equality

Link to Book

Underground Empire: How American Weaponised the World Economy

Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman (2023)

Recommended in Episode 22 – How Crises Shape Globalisation

Link to Book

What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

Stephen A. Schwarzman (2019)

Recommended in Episode 9 – Corporate Strategies for Emerging Markets

Link to Book