Choices by Shivshankar Menon
As an Indian citizen, often I wonder whether successive Indian Governments from Nehru to Modi have a strategic foreign policy to engage with the world at large, secure our interests…
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Fourteen Years with Boss by Ashokamitran
Writing fluently in both Tamil & English, Ashokamitran was a legend. It was on this day last month he passed away. As a remembrance, I got the book “Fourteen Years with…
That’s not how we do it here – John Kotter
Management books are useful they offer us mortals an opportunity to learn and implement from success and failures of others. Most of the researchers who write these books tend to make them prescriptive,…
Naan Oru Rasigan by Madhan
கார்ட்டூனிஸ்ட் மதன் என்றாலே விகடன் பத்திரிகையில் பல வருடங்கள் வந்த அவரின் அரசியல் நையாண்டி படங்கள் தான் நினைவில் வரும். அவருக்கு வேறுப் பல பரிமானங்களும் உண்டு. 90களில் அவரின் “வந்தார்கள், வென்றார்கள்” தொடரை வாரம் தவறாமல் படிப்பேன். அதிலிருந்து தான்…
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
I have been a customer of Amazon for decades. My loyalty to them started in the late 1990s. I used to buy books on software from Amazon USA and having it shipped…
Management Lessons from Movies
Cinema is a “powerful media”. Any oppressive ruler knows it well, that’s why they censor it, ban the films they don’t like. You can use it to rekindle patriotism as…
The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
I have heard about this book many times during my two decades of being a “manager” but got to read it only today. The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard…
Work like any other by Virginia Reeves
This novel had an intriguing storyline printed on it’s jacket cover. I had picked up a good book. It’s 1920s, in the state of Alabama (USA) Electricity has just come to…