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Avik Chanda

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Avik Chanda holds degrees in economics from Kolkata's Presidency College and the Delhi School of Economics. With two decades of global Big 4 Consulting experience, he is a business adviser, entrepreneur, trainer and a speaker at the Outstanding Speaker's Bureau. He has published two poetry collections, Jokhon Bideshe, in Bengali (Protibhash, 2006) and Footnotes (Shearsman, 2008), besides a novel, Anchor (HarperCollins, 2015). His acclaimed business book, From Command To Empathy: Using EQ in the Age of Disruption (HarperCollins, 2017), co-authored with Suman Ghose, was featured in 2018 in Amazon India's Best Reads, under 'Business, Strategy and Management'.

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“We advocate the creation of an organizational culture that fosters trust as compared to command-and-control obedience, one which focuses on empowerment and not merely on authority.”
Avik Chanda, From Command to Empathy: Using EQ in the Age of Disruption

“We advocate the creation of an organizational culture that fosters trust as compared to command-and-control obedience, one which focuses on empowerment and not merely on authority.”
Avik Chanda, From Command to Empathy: Using EQ in the Age of Disruption

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