Oct 20, 2020 | Book Review |
Leadership: In Turbulent Times (2018), by Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses the leadership secrets of four presidents who played a pivotal role in shaping the transformation of the United States of America. The author takes a look into the leadership qualities of four...
Sep 30, 2020 | Book Review |
A professor of Psychology at Stanford, Carol Dweck writes books that often make you see things from a larger perspective. In her much loved and appreciated book ‘Mindset’, focusing on Decision Theory and General Systems Theory of Psychology, she talks about the...
Sep 20, 2020 | Book Review |
We spend a good part of our life thinking about time. Right from when to wake up in the morning, to meeting work deadlines, to when is the right time to make a decision, we all know that timing plays a crucial role in our lives. In the words of Miles Davies, ‘Time...
Sep 15, 2020 | Book Review |
We all would love to be rational all the time, make sensible decisions, and act reasonably. However, Dan Ariely shows in his latest book that humans are rarely rational, and the truth is that our irrationality affects our decision-making our actions all the time. In...
Sep 5, 2020 | Book Review |
We often come across wizards in the sales and marketing world. These are people who have a high success rate when it comes to their sales numbers. They excel in communication, have tons of self-confidence, and have an amazing ability to persuade and convince...
Aug 30, 2020 | Book Review |
Willpower Doesn’t Work (2018) draws on the premise that willpower isn’t the answer to success. Benjamin Hardy, the author, describes that focussing on changing the environment to achieve a goal rather than relying only on willpower is a better way of winning in life....
May 15, 2020 | Book Review |
Trillion Dollar Coach (2019) is the story of Bill Campbell. It is an endeavor by Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, to chart the course of Bill Campbell’s incredible journey as a coach, an excellent businessman, and mentor whose leadership...
May 5, 2020 | Book Review |
Today, creativity has become an essential component in every facet of work. All organizations expect their employees to employ creative and innovative means to solve tasks at hand, at the time ensuring productivity and profitability. Creativity, Inc. explores the...
Mar 1, 2020 | Book Review |
Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. His leadership and management strategies before and during the American Civil War speak volumes of his success as the leader of a country. Donald Philips, in Lincoln on Leadership, describes some...
Feb 25, 2020 | Book Review |
The Wisdom of Insecurity penned by Alan Watts in 1951 brings forth the irony of modern life – that the pursuit of material happiness only leads to anxiety. Human beings are forgetting the purpose and the true pleasure of living in the present by dwelling in the...
