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The KAN Collective

Distinct ideas on work, method, and life.

Short, serious books by people who make the decisions they write about. Printed in limited editions for leaders, builders, and anyone who wants to think more clearly.

Collection

Work

See the shift before it reaches your org chart.

The forces rewriting industries, organizations, and the leader’s job. Read them while there is still time to act.

Explore Work8 titles · 1 available now

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Method

Talent gets you in the room. Method keeps you there.

Repeatable ways to think, decide, negotiate, and perform. Built in client rooms and tested under pressure.

Explore Method6 titles · 2 available now

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Life

The hardest calls never come with a brief.

For the decisions no dashboard can make. Judgment, regret, luck, and the courage to change course.

Explore Life6 titles · 1 available now

Most business books are written from the outside looking in. Ours come from inside the room, where the restructure is decided, the market is entered, and the hard call is made. You can feel the difference on every page.

Each title is printed in a limited run. When an edition is gone, it is gone.

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The Job at the Top

Leadership in the Modern Organization

Senior leadership is rarely what people expect. The work shifts from solving problems to choosing which ones matter, and from managing people to shaping the conditions they work in. This book lays out what changes at the top, what stays the same, and what most new leaders learn too late.

Limited first edition. Readers on the list hear about it first.

The Job at the Top by Kaushik Srinivasan, paperback

Work. See the shift before it reaches your org chart.

The New CHRO paperback
Limited edition

The New CHRO

Kaushik Srinivasan

The people function is being rebuilt. Here is what the CHRO role becomes.

$30.00
Shelf Life paperback
Coming soon

Shelf Life

Kaushik Srinivasan

Skills now expire faster than careers. Learning has to change with them.

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Polyculture Reality paperback
Coming soon

Polyculture Reality

Harina Nethri and Neelima Kaushik and Kaushik Srinivasan

Most organizations hold many cultures. Pretending otherwise costs them.

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The GCC Bubble paperback
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The GCC Bubble

Kaushik Srinivasan

The strains inside the GCC model, and the opportunities forming beneath them.

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Method. Talent gets you in the room. Method keeps you there.

The Worth of Work paperback
Limited edition

The Worth of Work

Neelima Kaushik and Kaushik Srinivasan

A new way to value jobs as AI changes what work is.

$24.99

Life. The hardest calls never come with a brief.

Written by practitioners. Edited for busy readers.

The KAN Collective is the publishing imprint of KAN Associates, a strategy and execution advisory firm. Our authors advise CEOs, CHROs, and boards, and they write from that work.

Every title is short by design and printed in limited editions. One clear idea, the evidence behind it, and what to do next.

Collections
Work, Method, Life
Editions
Limited print runs
Format
Paperback, English
Shipping
Across India and internationally
Offices
Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Coimbatore, New York, San Jose
Kaushik SrinivasanCEO and Co-Founder, KAN Associates
Neelima KaushikCo-Founder and Senior Partner, KAN Associates
Harina NethriDirector, KAN Associates

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Bring these ideas into your organization.

For organizations

Our books are written for the people you are developing. Use them in leadership development programs, employee onboarding, and executive offsites. We handle bulk orders for teams of any size.

  • Leadership development
  • Employee onboarding
  • Executive offsites
  • Bulk orders

Keynote speaking

Our authors speak at leadership forums, industry conferences, and company events, on the ideas in their books and the work behind them.

  • Leadership forums
  • Conferences
  • Company events

For aspiring authors

You have earned a point of view. Let’s make it a book.

We publish practitioners: people who lead, build, advise, and decide. Send a working title, a short synopsis, and a few lines on why you are the one to write it.