A month or so ago, I had either received a tweet or mail from Abhay Nagarajan, wondering if I had read the above mentioned book.

Frankly, it was of no interest to me and had forgotten, till last week, looking for a book on flipkart saw the book and price (Rs. 100/-) ordered it along with Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai The Premier Murder League by Geeta Sunder.

Aha, well back to the afore mentioned book. A sort of poor @sidin about investment counselor from two tier B school and his boss, with too much jargon and extremely thin story line, trying to encash on the so called ‘market melt down’

Personally, I think it should have had a better story line, with less jargon and more humane touch.

Also for me the fact, that everyone wants to write, manage to write publish is ‘courage to follow your dreams and realise them’ is cheers time.

And hey, it may probably work for that age group, B school people, with a great price point.

An article in Corporate Dossier in 2003 by Kumar Mangalam Birla that made sense, particularly when coming from a ‘B’ school person himself.

Lesson 1 : Learning to Work as part of a team
(Take 1 therefore is: Being team spirited is critical to success in professional life)

Lesson 2 : Learning to take care of the Details
(Take 2 : Remember ……..God is in the details)

Lesson 3 : Learning to work across cultures
(Take 3 : Respect different cultures and learn from them)

Lesson 4: Learning to make use of the gift of judgement and intuition
(Take 4 - then - is: Listen to your sixth sense. Also understand the touch and feel factor of the experienced)

Lesson 5 : Using failure as a stepping stone to success
(Take 5 is: There’s no success without failure)

Lesson 6: Learning a New, more holistic definition of success
(Take 6: Let’s define success more holistically)

A more detailed version of the article can be read here