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Chetan Dhruve

Chetan Dhruve

About

I've worked for several organizations including IBM, Cisco Systems and Britain's Department for International Development (DfID). DfID was called the Overseas Development Administration (ODA), and was in those days the aid wing of the British Foreign Office.  I've also co-founded internet startups.

Education-wise, I have an MBA from Cass Business School (London), an MA in International Journalism from City University (London), and a BSc in Physics, Maths and Electronics from St Joseph’s College, Bangalore. I also have an honours certificate in Psychology from St Joseph's.  

Demon Seekers: The Journey Begins

Demon Seekers: The Journey Begins

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<p>Sayetta is an archangel who has been sent into the physical world to seek out eight archangels who have been reborn into the world. She knows that she cannot do it in the form of an angel so she takes on a human form to move through among us in the physical world. Gabe a mortal has the soul of a warrior angel. He is reborn in physical form to prepare for her coming. He is born with abilities that he is unaware he has.</p><p>All of his life Gabe had been having dreams of a ruined church. He never knew the name of the church, but the dream was always the same. In the dream, he was standing facing the ruins of the church. But he didn’t look like a human. Instead, he was an angel with pure white wings and a golden countenance. Another much larger angel appeared to him. The angel pointed towards what was left of the door and said “Enter, your journey has just begun and your guide awaits you.</p><p>Sayetta finds out from Archangel Michael that Lucifer has sent an old demon to find and stop Auriel from removing the demons he has imprisoned in the earth.</p><p>They receive a little help from the Archangels Azuriel and Gabriel as they journey to locate Auriel. It’s a race to find Auriel before the demon does. In the end, it’s a battle between two powerful beings, one good and one evil.</p>

Story Behind The Book

Hello there. My name is Chetan Dhruve and I'm the author of the book Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator. Thanks for reading this book sample. Here's the backstory. I had studied Systems Thinking as part of my MBA, and we had done a case study on a low-cost airline called People Express. The airline was extremely successful when it first launched, but folded later.<br /> As part of the study, we were given a software tool that simulated the case. The aim was to prevent the airline from going bust. We tried several things - when demand spiked, we would buy new airplanes. If service levels dropped, we would hire more staff. But whatever we did, something else would go wrong, leading to the collapse of the airline.<br /> The thing was, we were looking at each problem in isolation - analytically. Instead, we should have looked at the problem wholistically, that is, using Systems Thinking. It sounds easy and obvious, but it is actually a profound, fundamental shift in thinking.<br /> The lesson was this: systems matter. Good people in bad systems produce bad results.

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<p>&quot;Read this&quot; - The Guardian (London)<br /><br /> &quot;This book is a breakthrough&quot; - Sally Bibb, former director, the  Economist (London)<br />  </p> <p><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><em>&quot;Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator</em> takes an extra step back from similar books that look at the problems of bad bosses, looking at the bigger picture and giving thoughtful, articulate insight into the root causes of why such negative working environments and behaviours exist.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">The explanations as to why we have such a wealth of bad bosses become almost shockingly obvious once approached from the angle of systems thinking.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><em>Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator</em> reveals innovative solutions that have had little mention in the current business books on offer.&quot;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">- <a href="http://www.management-issues.com/2007/6/22/display_book/why-your-boss-is-programmed-to-be-a-dictator.asp">Management Issues </a></span></p>