Quick look at a few books

BOOK PEEK

Contents of Book Peek - October 25, 2012

Reviews

1) ‘The End of Business As Usual’ by Brian Solis

2) ‘Imagine: How creativity works’ by Jonah Lehrer

3) ‘Quiet’ by Susan Cain

4) ‘Just Start’ by Leonard A. Schlesinger and Charles F. Kiefer

Video links

Interaction with Suresh Padmanabhan, author of 'I Love... Money'

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1) ‘Romance on Facebook’ by Amrita Priya - Landmark

2) ‘Plunnge’ by Rakesh Godhwani

3) ‘How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded a Million Dollar Company’ by Varun

Agarwal

4) ‘Designing Human Resource Management Systems: A leader’s guide’ by

Jayant Mukherjee – Sage

5) ‘Urban and Regional Planning in India: A handbook for professional

practice’ by S. K. Kulshrestha – Sage

6) ‘Great Game East: India, China and the struggle for Asia’s most volatile

frontier’ by Bertil Lintner – Harper

7) ‘The New Emerging Market Multinationals: Four strategies for disrupting

markets and building brands’ by Amitava Chattopadhyay, Rajeev Batra TMH

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Suresh Padmanabhan

Author of 'I Love... Money'

What villages need

Energy Temple

EQ

‘Stop’

Advice to parents

“Never say that money is not important in life. Money is like

blood flowing in our body, like the air that we breathe, and is

an intrinsic part of life. The day we realise money is a

wonderful tool and it is important and in the right hands it is

more important – money needs to come to the right hands, to

the right people – and allow its consciousness to grow and to

flower, that day we will have the true flowering – the flowering

of life, the flowering of happiness within us, and the flowering

of spirituality.” (http://bit.ly/F4TSureshPadmanabhan)

Author interaction: Suresh Padmanabhan

Academic experience

“I have learnt from my own experience that signing up for a school

and arming oneself with knowledge is a wonderful mechanism to

reinvent. The ambience of these academic institutions is perfect for

learning new things but also time to reflect and think… Not only do

our clogged minds get cleansed, they are also filled with new things

that are valuable for our reinvented avatar.” (p. 93, ‘Plunnge’ by

Rakesh Godhwani)

Serious money

“That’s the unbelievable thing about starting your company. Every

day is not only a new and a different day, it’s an exciting opportunity.

You get goose bumps when you get off the phone with a complete

stranger who wants to invest serious money in your company. So we

met the investor the next day at a posh Bangalore hotel. For once I

wasn’t dressed in my track pants. We spoke about various things and

we told him our story – how we started, our future plans, etc. He was

mighty impressed and was really keen on investing in us but the problem was that

we were not ready yet. I mean we had just started and our company didn’t even

have a decent valuation.” (p. 188, ‘How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded a Million

Dollar Company’ by Varun Agarwal)

Spatial planner

“A spatial planner is specifically trained to handle large amounts of

varied data from several different sources… During education, a

spatial planner is exposed to knowledge pertaining to the field of

planning as well as other related disciplines such as architecture,

engineering, economics, sociology, finance, management and law.” (p.

14, ‘Urban and Regional Planning in India: A handbook for professional

practice’ by S. K. Kulshrestha – Sage)

Revolutionary tax

“Ordinary citizens and government employees are pressured to pay a

‘revolutionary tax’ on a monthly basis in Nagaland. The money goes

straight into the pockets of someone claiming to represent one faction

or another…’

“In Manipur, shopkeepers are required to pay off not one but several

insurgent groups, as are truck and bus drivers whose vehicles ply the

state’s remote roads and main highways.” (p. 172, ‘Great Game East: India, China

and the struggle for Asia’s most volatile frontier’ by Bertil Lintner – Harper)

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Published by: Shrinikethan, Chennai http://bit.ly/ShriMap

Edited by: D. Murali http://bit.ly/dMurali http://bit.ly/TopTalk

October 25, 2012