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Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

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Originally published: 1994. The edition reviewed was published in 2005 Author: Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras Page count: 304 Genre: Business   This is one of the classics in business books. I remember, in most of the MBA orientations I have attended, at least one speaker recommends the students to read this book. It is an extensive research on visionary companies that have been successful for decades. It also pays attention to the competitors of visionary companies. It dwells deeply on what makes an organization successful and keeps it on top for a long time and on factors that made organizations less successful/ a failure. This book is for leaders, founders and managers who want to build great organizations and teams. Most of the organizations are running after latest management practices and there is no dearth of such seasonal fads. Instead of changing the organization according to latest ‘in-fashion’ practices companies should go back to basic fundamentals of bui...
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Sapiens: A brief history of humankind

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Originally published: 2011 Author: Yuval Noah Harari Page count: 443 Genre: Non-fiction   Why I picked up this book…because it had an intriguing title and was in Sunday Times Bestsellers list! (Btw I bought it second hand). But I must say that it was a great choice. This book takes you on a journey of evolution of mankind from ‘an animal of no significance’ to ‘the animal that became God’. In the year 1500 there were around 500 million sapiens and the total value of goods and services produced by humankind was around $250 billion, now there are more than 7 billion sapiens producing goods and services worth $60 trillion. How we as a species become so successful?   With a length of 443 pages divided into 20 chapters, different parts of this book will appeal to various categories of people who like history, genetics, biology, anthropology, economics and science history. It will be immensely appealing to people who are generally curious. So, let us start…   Three ...
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How to be a Bawse by Lilly Singh

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Originally published: 2017 Author: Lilly Singh Genre: Non-fiction In case you don’t have time to read the full review read these Quick Fives to know the book: To be a Bawse: Understand yourself, take control of yourself, your thoughts and emotions Identify your values, use them to set your goals and overcome fear & distraction to achieve your goals Be uncomfortable, make mistakes, learn from them and invest in yourself Inspire yourself, be consistent in your efforts, take a pause to appreciate your job/work Be nice to people, empathize with them, learn from them and make them feel important *********************** Complete Summary  Let me confess before I start – I have not read this book! I have not read but listened to this book on Amazon Audible…narrator is no one else but Lilly Singh! And I must say it was an amazing experience…as a narrator she is as funny and expressive as her YouTube videos…so listening to the book was an enjoyable experience! The b...
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