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Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benson – Book Summary and Review

Nov 23, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Agreeing To Disagree Productively The phrase ‘a good argument’ seems like an oxymoron. In fact, all children are taught from a very young age that arguments are not good and that it is best to avoid disagreements.  ‘Why Are We Yelling?’ (2019) by Buster Benson...

Algorithms To Live By – Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths – Book Summary & Review

Nov 20, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Enhancing the Quality of Life with Algorithms The world functions on algorithms. Right from the computer and the smartphone in our hands, to the decisions we make, and while even finding a life partner, we use the power of algorithms to make like simpler, easier and...

Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia – Book Summary & Review

Nov 15, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Happy Employees and How to Get Them The workforce of any business or organization is its core. However, businesses and organisations are often uncaring and have nothing more than a ‘suggestion box’ to offer their employees. Rather than treating employees like mere...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson – Book Review & Summary

Nov 8, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Wondrous, Mysterious, Us The human body is a wondrous miracle. From the way it functions as a whole, to the individual parts of the body, we never stop to think and consider how it works. Even scientists and doctors, who devote their lives to studying it, find it...

The Conscience Economy (2014) by Steven Overman – Book Review & Summary

Nov 4, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Business In The Conscience Culture Technology has brought the world closer, turning it into a global village. Hyperconnectivity has had implications on all walks of life, more so on the worldwide economy. Businesses need to realign their strategies and principles in...

The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy – Book Summary & Review

Nov 2, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

10 Lessons To Increase Your Sales By Sales Guru Brian Tracy 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,...

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts – 5 Lessons

Nov 1, 2021 | Book Review | 1 comment

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...

The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler – Book Review & Summary

Oct 31, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Achieving Peak Performance With Flow Achieving a ‘state of flow’ is touted as a sure formula for success in any endeavor. It is a transcendental state wherein one is at the optimal best while truly enjoying the task at hand and achieving peak performance. The Rise of...

An Audience Of One by Srinivas Rao – Book Review & Summary

Oct 23, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Cultivating One’s Own Creative Voice Every individual has a creative impulse in them, albeit in varying degrees. However, everyone has also faced that little bit of hesitation in following their creative voices, either because there is another dissuading voice in the...

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham – Book Review & Summary

Oct 17, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Small And Successful The traditional business mantra of expansion through sales and a larger customer base doesn’t hold much merit in today’s economy. Growth is overrated, and many small businesses, driven by mere hearty enthusiasm are showing the way. Bo Burlingham’s...

Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin – Book Review & Summary

Oct 12, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Ideavirus The decline of advertising in the Internet Age has made the marketing community see the need for a radically new, effective strategy of reaching customers. Seth Godin’s Unleashing the Ideavirus (2000) takes us through the concept of ‘going viral’, and what...

Why Love Matters (2004) by Sue Gerhardt – Book Review & Summary

Oct 5, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

The Social Brain And Babyhood What shapes us into the people we grow up to become? This question has had scientists and researchers drawing conclusions over nature, nurture, or both debates for more than a century. Is it one’s genes, or environment, that define who we...

This Is Marketing by Seth Godin – Book Summary & Review

Oct 1, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Effective Marketing In The Internet Age Marketing and advertising have been so closely related to each other. Additionally, for the traditional marketer, advertising is the center of the marketing universe. However, today, there is a clear shift in how both these are...

All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin – Book Review & Summary

Sep 23, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Tell A Story Every Customer Wants To Hear Marketing, since the beginning has been all about telling a customer a story about a product, brand or company, that will entice and enamor him and ultimately result in a purchase. All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin aims at...

The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmonson – Book Summary & Review

Sep 20, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Nurturing Psychological Safety We are living in a knowledge economy where the next big idea and quick solutions become benchmarks for success. The motto of ‘work hard, work smart’ just doesn’t cut it anymore. Corporates are continually demanding more out of employees,...

The Polymath (2019) by Waqas Ahmed – Book Summary & Review

Sep 16, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

The Jack-Of-All-Trades There is a certain negativity surrounding the proverb ‘Jack of all trades, and master of none.’ However, is being a ‘Jack-of-all-trades’ really so bad? Evolution has made humans capable of nurturing various skills and abilities. By nature,...

Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin – Book Review & Summary

Sep 7, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Edgecraft We all have childhood memories of begging our parents to buy that particular brand of cereal simply to get the ‘free prize’ inside. While most elders thought it was a cheap gimmick adding to the junk in the house, for the children, it was nothing short of...

Smart People Should Build Things by Andrew Yang – Book Review & Summary

Sep 3, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Entrepreneurship: The Core Of A Flourishing Economy Given choices, most of today’s young college graduates choose careers in professional services. If we take a look at some of the topmost university graduates from elite colleges in the US, we find that they prefer to...

Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire – Book Review & Summary

Aug 31, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Nurturing Creativity 101 Whenever we see creative people, we often think that they are simply born creative. We consider creativity to be an innate, natural trait that some have from birth, while others don’t have at all! We have drawn a bold line between these have’s...

Brave New Work (2019) by Aaron Dignan – Book Review & Summary

Aug 26, 2021 | Book Review | 0 comments

Legacy Vs. Evolutionary OS The world has changed. So has the working culture. The global marketplace today, is more dynamic and is constantly reinventing itself, at a pace faster than it did merely two decades ago. However, many organizations are still using the same...
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Recent Articles

  • Leadership Journeys [57] – Marc Munier – “If people aren’t willing to accept you for the way that you are, then that’s their problem”
  • Can’t Stay Silent [04] – There Is No Forcing In Nature
  • Leadership Journeys [56] – Ian Fishwick – “Everybody wants the best people, but what I say is, get the best out of people.”
  • Leadership Journeys [55] – Philip Johnston – “Blitzscaling a startup is stressful, but also pretty exhilarating and fun.”
  • Issue #70, 17 Jan 2023 – How to increase your impact & well-being by doing less?
  • Can’t Stay Silent [03] – Can We Face What We Do Not Want To Face?
  • Leadership Journeys [54] – Steve Midgley – “You have to be prepared to stand up for what you believe in”
  • Leadership Journeys [53] – Marius Ciavola – “Trust and inspire instead of command and control.”
  • Leadership Journeys [52] – Bharanidharan – “Whatever you have, make the best out of it.”
  • Leadership Journeys [51] – Thomas Van Eeckhout – “The CEO is not the most important person in the company”
  • Issue #69, 3 Jan 2023 – Start 2023 by learning the most powerful skill – to regulate your nervous system
  • Leadership Journeys [50] – Karl Feilder- “Just because I have a big title doesn’t mean that I’m any better than others”
  • Leadership Journeys [49] – Gernot Schwendtner – ”Fear is natural & makes you aware of risks but is one of the worst counsellor”
  • Issue #68, 20 Dec 2022 – How to face and deal with rising uncertainty?
  • Can’t Stay Silent [02] – Our Pain Unites Us
  • Can’t Stay Silent [01] – Fall or Flight?
  • Leadership Journeys [48] – Simon Godfrey – ”It is important to respect other people’s opinions, even if they are opposing our own”
  • Leadership Journeys [47] – Andrea Fernandez – “When there is no focus and it is hard, It’s actually not a bad idea to slow down and take a break”
  • Leadership Journeys [46] – Paulina Tenner – “I have my own agenda but I’m also surrendered to the wisdom of the process of life”
  • Leadership Journeys [45] – Faisal Hoque – “Life is somewhere in between letting it happen and making it happen.”
  • Issue #67, 6 Dec 2022 – The trap of always chasing “more” & the power of “enough”
  • Leadership Journeys [44] – Colleen Nagle – “Holding yourself accountable is half the battle in success”
  • Leadership Journeys [43] – Radmila Blazheska – “Leadership is the combination of determination and openness to listen to others.”
  • Leadership Journeys [42] – David Jayatillake – “As a Leader, If you’re not involved with your team, you will be isolated.”
  • Leadership Journeys [41] – Jami Kiran – “Having clarity as a leader helps us understand who we are while making choices.”

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