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In The End, What is Success Really?

 What’s Success?   Just look at few scenarios below.   1. Ph.D./FPM/Doctorate in Indian universities takes 4+ years; some schools may take 7+ years. I have seen sizable cases…

HRD Missionary – A quick review.

  (Image Source: Amazon) I just read this small book.  It’s by T V Rao Sir, the father of Indian HRD.  It is small volume with 100+ pages and…

Sprint – A quick book review.

  Sprint means to leap, “run a short distance with a full speed.”   That’s what the book is.  A quick read.  It is a step-by-step process that one…

When “Death” brings meaning!

Sometime back, I read Paul Kalanithi’s article in New York Times How Long have I got Left?  I remember reading his Stanford article “Before I go also on the same…

Marking in the book: To do or not do?

(Annotated Text: Image Source: WikiMedia) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiversity/en/f/fa/Annotating_Text.jpg)   “Eeeeeee!” screamed my sister at the top pitch.  She looked with disgust as if a giant cockroach was sitting on the…

Influence – and GRP: Guided Reading Program

    (Book Cover Images – Source: Amazon) For a book-of-the-month, generally, we select books around 250 pages.  But this time, we have a slightly longer book.  After…

How to keep yourself energize the whole day!

  (Make Time: Brief Summary) This image is the brief graphical summary of “Make Time“. It’s prepared by a friend and book lover, “Norm“.  It’s a very pragmatic…

Ten Things that I learned from “Surely, You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”

  (Image Source: Amazon) I read this book. It is a “book-of-the-month” in my book club.  First I wonder, why haven’t I read this book before! I was…

Getting Things Done (Book Review).

5 Minute: Quick Read.   (Image: Screen Shot from GoodReads My Profile Page )  1 *. (One Star).     Yes, I gave a one-star rating to Getting Things…

Tribes: We need you to lead us. (Book Review).

5 Minutes, Quick Read. (Image Source: Amazon India)  Quick Summary:  Book proposed a new type of leadership for the hyper-connected world, where anyone can be a leader. The…

39 surprising books on mastering People Skills!

Long Post (Image-Source: Wikimedia) Listicle  When is the last time you wrote a book-list for your use!  We eagerly wait for BillGates, BarackObama, or Shashi Tharoor book list….

Wherever you go, there you are (Book review).

10 min. Quick Read Quick Summary:  Poetic musing of the mindfulness teacher. Any curious mind can benefit. Any Meditator can deepen his practice with these ruminations. It is…

Solitude is the sine qua non (crucial!) for enriched life!

[6 minute Quick Read] [Solitude and the Sea – Painting – By Jacques Bodin] When is the last time, you spent some time with your thoughts? In all…

First step in getting your life back from digital addiction!

6 minute Quick read. Digital detox – abstaining from social media, a smart phone is popular these days. So are the attempts like deleting apps, removing notifications, purging follow…

War on technology addiction is one sided!

3-minute quick read.  When smart-phone was introduced by Apple –it was supposed to be a combination of iPod and phone. Facebook was also introduced to just connect girl-friends,…

How to Write a Lot !

5 minute read – Book Review of “How to Write a Lot” [Image Source : https://www.amazon.in/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive-ebook/dp/B001Y35G60 ] In general writing productivity and particular academic productivity boils down to simply how…

“7 Habits” : A Management Guru Stephen Covey – passed away.

Stephen Covey , The author of the best seller “7 Habits of highly effective people” passed away. I hooked to  this book ,when I just passed out of…

Best Place to work !

This fourth toast-master project is my most memorable one. First I had already committed the date . Before due date, even after toiling with two three ideas ,…