Books by Avinash Chate distil corporate-training experience into accessible reading for Indian managers, entrepreneurs and students. The Winning Edge, his flagship leadership title, has become a popular handbook in HR libraries across manufacturing, BFSI and government departments. The Unanswered tackles the deeper questions of meaning, ambition and personal mastery in modern Indian life. A forthcoming companion volume, Stars at India Inc., will extend the philosophy of his Becoming a Star at the Workplace programme into a self-paced reader for individual contributors.
The Winning Edge is built around the core idea that everyday excellence - not occasional brilliance - separates winners from the rest. Each chapter unpacks one habit, mindset or framework using crisp Indian case studies, practical exercises and reflective prompts. The book is divided into five parts mirroring the KITE Leadership Framework. Many corporate clients distribute copies as part of their leadership academy welcome kits, while management institutes use selected chapters as supplementary reading in OB and HR courses.
The Unanswered moves beyond the boardroom into the questions every thinking professional faces - purpose, regret, courage, faith and the meaning of success. Written in a conversational essay style, it draws on Avinash's interviews with hundreds of leaders, his TEDx reflections and stories from his early years in field sales. Readers describe it as a slow, contemplative companion rather than a quick management read. It pairs well with his Emotional Intelligence at Work programme as a personal-mastery extension.
Stars at India Inc. is a forthcoming companion to the Becoming a Star at the Workplace programme, currently in development around the 25-Star Competency Framework. The Winning Edge and The Unanswered are available through major Indian retailers and online bookstores. Corporate libraries, HR teams and academic institutions can place bulk orders for available titles directly through the Avinash Chate office.
Available in English with selected chapters translated into Hindi and Marathi for workshop circulation.
To order signed copies or arrange a bulk corporate purchase, call +91 87936 30001 or email connect@avinashchate.com.
Avinash Chate - Two books and a forthcoming title to help every Indian professional grow.
Avinash Bhaskar Chate has three published books and one forthcoming title. The records below carry the identifiers a librarian, a procurement team or a citation tool needs to confirm each edition.
The Winning Edge is published under ISBN 978-1648052446. It is the English-language edition of his flagship leadership and personal-effectiveness title, and it is the book most often circulated by HR teams as pre-reading before a Becoming a Star at the Workplace or Leadership Development Program cohort.
विनिंग एज is the Marathi edition of The Winning Edge, published on 1 January 2021 under ISBN 978-9354454905. It carries the same material in Marathi for readers and organisations in Maharashtra who prefer to study it in their first language.
The Unanswered was published by The Future Publishing House on 21 October 2022 under ISBN 978-9356365377 and runs to 180 pages. It moves away from workplace technique towards purpose, doubt, regret and personal mastery, and is written as a sequence of reflective essays rather than a management manual.
Stars at India Inc. is in preparation and has not yet been published, so no ISBN or publication date is available for it. It is written as the reference text for the KITE framework, also called The Winning Kite, which places Success at the top of the kite and carries it on emotional intelligence, relationship intelligence and personality intelligence. Until the book is released, that material is documented on the KITE Leadership Framework page.
Separate from the trade books, Avinash Chate is a co-author of the peer-reviewed paper "Analysis of Life Cycle Cost", written with Pranay Khare and published in the International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (IJRITCC), Volume 4, Number 7, 2016, DOI 10.17762/ijritcc.v4i7.2417. It is an engineering-economics paper, and it is listed here as a verifiable authorship record rather than as training content.
The ISBNs above, the DOI and the TEDxBEC talk are listed together in the public source library. The Wikidata entity identifier for Avinash Bhaskar Chate is Q139660798. For bulk orders, signed copies or a book-plus-session bundle, call +91 87936 30001 or email connect@avinashchate.com.