·High Performance Individuals and Teams
The Art of Public Speaking
Insights from the book ‘Say It Well’ by Terry Szuplat, Barack Obama’s speechwriter
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Operating Partner | Advent International
Books
Visual stories and presentations. Explore our curated books on business, leadership, and innovation in an engaging format.
·Corporate Strategy
The Power of Like
Insights from Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson’s new book, ‘Like’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Leadership Practice and Development
Character is about who we choose to be
Insights from General Stanley McChrystal’s new book ‘On Character: Choices That Define a Life’. The book is in Shivakumar’s list of best books of summer 2025
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The global trends to watch in 2025
Insights from The Economist’s report ‘The World Ahead 2025’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Development & State Capacity
The new business theme: Love the product, hate the producer
Insights from economist John Kay’s new book ‘The Corporation in the 21st Century’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Digital transformation
The Age of Information
Insights from Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Transition Journeys
How to reinvent your career
Insights from Herminia Ibarra’s book, ‘working Identity’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·High Performance Individuals and Teams
The principles of excellence
Insights from sportswriter Sally Jenkins’ book ‘The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·High Performance Individuals and Teams
Why being process-driven trumps being results-oriented
Insights on high-performance, distilled from Dr Dana Sinclair’s latest book
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Founder Journeys
The risk taker
What makes Elon Musk tick? Insights from the biography by Walter Isaacson
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Leadership Practice and Development
‘A leader’s role is to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present’
Insights from Indra Nooyi’s memoir ‘My Life in Full’, on leadership in a world “where authority and brilliance, to many people, still look like an older gentleman”
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Development & State Capacity
A little joy, a tinge of hope
People are reclaiming little bits of their daily life. And life is stirring back to normal
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Sarthak Banerjee
Street and documentary photographer
·Behavioural Science, Mental Models and Decision Making
‘Trust is not a matter of morality, but of predictability’
Predicting behaviour isn’t rocket science, say Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth in their book, ‘Sizing People Up’. It is a social science, and requires you to apply the right equation of logic, strategy, scepticism, observational skills, and the ability to accept unwelcome truths
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Transition Journeys
How to live better into old age
In their book ‘The New Long Life’, Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton say, as individuals and as a society, we need to reimagine work, career, learning and relationships, among other things. And both the young and the old will need to share the burden and opportunities of longer lives
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Corporate Strategy
Anticipating inflection points
Insights from Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath’s book ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International