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Book Summary: The Start-Up of You
The book tries to reflect on individual’s professional growth in contemporary era of fickle employment guarantees. The best part about the book is that it tries to offer pragmatic (as opposed to principled advice) regarding career development and branding. Following … Continue reading
Book Summary: Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma
The book provides a nice summary of economic events of recent past (~50 years) and builds upon the case for coming 10 years. The book is divided in 14 different chapters covering emerging and frontier (less liquid and smaller than emerging).
Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
The book is 50% story of Jobs and 50% history of the Valley. From the beginning of Apple to it becoming the world’s most valuable company, book covers everything in depth (and is a bit too long) Some of the … Continue reading
Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy
An amazing book which describes Google’s journey right from its beginning in the Stanford dorm. The author interviewed several top echelons of Google and presented several interesting insider anecdotes and stories of Google. The book provides details of major projects … Continue reading
Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
The book presents a generalists view of post-independent India. Unlike India Unbound, this book focuses primarily on post-independent India and takes a more pragmatic approach towards understanding problems of contemporary India. The best parts of the book is the interesting … Continue reading
Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The book talks about a set of habits which differentiates successful people from the normal. It criticizes [recently popular] personality ethic which it terms as deceptive and manipulative and calls for character ethic which is a fundamental change in human … Continue reading
Summary: Build to Last (Successful habit of visionary companies)
The book compares a set of 17 companies which are considered visionary with similar 17 companies of lesser stature [I am avoiding gory details of their methodology here]. With the aim of deriving theory from practice, the book aims at … Continue reading
Summary: India Unbound
The book is divided primarily into three parts, pre-independence era [focused on British Raj including some stories of Mughal period], post-independence pre-liberalized era and post-liberalized India. Since, the author was born in 1943 West Punjab (now under occupation of Pakistan), … Continue reading
Summary: “Difficulty of being good: Subtle art of Dharma”
The book interprets events in Mahabharata while trying to draw parallels from contemporary world. Following are the key take-aways based on my understanding of the book. [I am assuming familiarity with story of Mahabharata]