Varun Kumar

SOCIALLY ACTIVE MOM Socially active mom gets her dose of energy by striking new friendships and forming new bonds. Leave her in a room full of strangers and she will come out of the room having made some mommy friends (with their numbers). She is the one who initiates Whatsapp groups and get together plans with fellow mommies. She loves to be socially active and her child mostly has a lot of friends to hang out with. THE PERFECTIONIST MOM Class assignment, check. Evening park time, check. Milk at 6, check. Dinner at 8, check. The perfectionist mom will ensure that no vacations, family commitments ever mess around with her kid's routine. Give her a class assignment and in all probability, her child will carry the most comprehensive and creative report to the school. Her kid will almost always be the one with the neatest assignments and best fancy dress ideas. 'MY KID IS THE BEST' MOM Every mother loves her child but this mom type is different. For the sake of modest...

Leaders have to manage three boxes simultaneously. BOX 1: Manage the present core businesses at peak efficiency and profitability. BOX 2: Breakaway from obsolete practices of the past. Some of these may have been the source of past success. BOX 3: Innovate nonlinear futures for the business by (1) redefining your set of customers, (2) reinventing the value you offer them. To start thinking about the three boxes to transform your organization , it is important to start looking for discontinuities. These could be: Customer discontinuities —Are today’s biggest, fastest-growing, or most profitable customer segments likely to be the same ones in the next ten to fifteen years? Who will be your customers in the future? Are there small or emerging customer segments today that are using or even customizing your products or services in unconventional ways? Which non-consumers today could potentially become consumers in the future? What would be their priorities?  Tec...

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1. Believe in your vision and gifts when no one else believes in your vision and gifts. 2. Start your day with 20 minutes of exercise. 3. Make excellence your way of being (versus a once in a while event). 4. Be on time (bonus points: be early). 5. Be a celebrator of other’s talents versus a critic. 6. Stop watching TV. (Bonus points: sell your tv and invest the cash in learning and self-education). 7. Finish what you start. 8. Remember that your diet affects your moods so eat like an athlete. 9. Spend an hour a day without stimulation (no phone+no FaceBook+no noise). 10. Release the energy vampires from your life. They are destroying your performance. 11. Write in a journal every morning. And record gratitude every night. 12. Do work that scares you (if you’re not uncomfortable often, you’re not growing very much). 13. Make the choice to let go of your past. It’s dusty history. And polluting your future. ...

Managers and employees burdened by indecisiveness and frustrated with their poor decision-making skills will find solace in this guidebook from the bestselling author of The One Minute Manager. Its way over simplified but gives some solid advice and good lessons. It is a story about a young man who embarks on a hiking trip with a group of others.  They use this hike to reflect on their decisions and analyze how they could have made better decisions. The Yes or No system lets you ·          focus on real needs, versus mere wants ·          create better options ·          see the likely consequences of choices ·          identify and then use your own integrity, intuition, insight to gain peace of mind, self-confidence and freedom from fear

I don’t remember when the last time I got so hooked on to any book was. ' The Immortals of Meluha' is the first book of Shiva Trilogy series written by Amish Tripathi . . It’s actually a mythological story but presented as fiction with its own share of thriller, romance and action. I mean the way author has presented this story is absolutely commendable. The story is set in the land of Meluha and begins with the arrival of the Tibetan tribal Shiva. The Meluhan belief that Shiva is their fabled saviour Neelkanth, is confirmed when he consumes the Somras, a legendary healing potion, which turns his throat blue. Shiva decides to help the Meluhans in their war against the Chandravanshis, who had joined forces with a cursed group called Nagas. However, in his journey and the resulting fight that ensues, Shiva learns how his choices actually reflected who he aspires to be and how it led to dire consequences. Using the same characters, places and names which are associated with...

I will give this book a rating of 3 out of 5. It dwells broadly on Leadership, Management and Training. Author quotes 175 verses from Arthashastra and explains the meaning and relevance to the respective field in Management. The book covers areas like business organization, strategy, decision making, finance, time management and responsibilities of a leader.   I found few chapters well written for the corporate world but others are just useful to management graduates.