By: Kateri Drexler
Pages: 256
Biography, Business
My recommendation: 7 / 10
Date read: 13th Apr'17
Brief review: The book covers brief story on the lives of 12 business icons like Donald Trump, Jack Welch, Oprah Winfrey, George Soros, Muhammad Yunus, Ted Turner, Sam Walton and others. I enjoyed reading it as it as it captures the essence of their lives in a crispy manner.
By: Myra White & Sanjay Jha
Pages: 320
Business, Motivation
My recommendation: 8 / 10
Date read: 9th Apr'17
Brief review: A brilliant book. Lots of real life examples of successful people in their own words; how they handled various events and challenging circumstances in their lives. It focuses on the fact that each one of us can become a superstar. I would definitely recommend this book.
By: Seth Goddin
Pages: 256
Business, Self Help
My recommendation: 6 / 10
Date read: 21st Feb'17
Brief review: This book mostly talks about people who think differently about customer satisfaction and finding solution. These people find solutions and implement things which are generally not in the rule books but it delights the most imporant person in the whole chain, the customer. Seth Goddin is a great writer and this book is quite famous. Still, it probably misses the punch required to make it a great read. Some excellent ideas and examples though.
By: Jeffry Liker
Pages: 330
Business
My recommendation: 9 / 10
Date read: 22nd Jan'17
Brief review: This book was gifted to me by a friend of mine who is a Toyota dealer since long. It remained on my shelf for long before I read it. Written in 2004, the book discusses the management principles used by Toyota and how it forged ahead of competition. You will know how Toyota built a culture to stop fixing problems but to get the quality right the first time. It gives an insight to 14 management principles Toyota followed. The book is divided into 3 parts. (1) The world class power of the Toyota way (2) The business principles of the Toyota way and (3) Applying the Toyota way in your organisation. What impressed me was the fact that this book talks about the systems and processes Toyota used and was written way before Toyota became the world's largest automobile manufacturer. This clearly demonstrates the power of work ethics and disciplined progress. Toyota is credited to have introduced a revolutionary approach known as 'lean production'. The lessons you will learn in this book can be applied in your own organisation.
By: Michael Lewis
Pages: 274
Business, Non Fiction
My recommendation: 8 / 10
Date read: 5th Dec'16
Brief review: The world is not clean. The white collar job is actually not white. It's a game which few play at the cost of many. The book is about high frequency trading on US stock exchanges. It exposes high frequency traders and the methods they applied to siphon away millions and billions of dollars just by rigging the system and benefiting with nanoseconds advantage. A good read, specially for those having interest in stock markets and technology. To write a book like this you need to completely immerse yourself into the subject matter for months and years. Nobody could do it better than Michael Lewis. It's an explosive story (the real one) which will reveal and expose the secret of rich and powerful.
