Employing a small but striking fable of a fictitious Company named Decision Tech, Patrick Lencioni proceeds to illustrate the perils of a team working at cross purposes and displaying classic symptoms of discord, disharmony and dysfunctional behaviour. Kathryn Petersen is elected as the new CEO of a once high flying, but now struggling Decision Tech. … Continue reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

The man who gifted the literary world "Holden Caulfield" also ensured that he remained obdurately inaccessible to the public throughout his life. While Holden Caulfield and "The Catcher In The Rye" do not seem to have any obstacles in gaining and regaining popularity, their creator seemingly seems to have gone out of his way to … Continue reading Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander

Over an enduring legacy spanning a phenomenal 150-odd years, the TATA Group has come to symbolize the tenets of integrity, intensity and indispensability. With an uncompromising bent of mind in so far as the sphere of business ethics is concerned, this conglomerate has transformed itself from a fledgling textile manufacturer into a virtual pride of … Continue reading Tata Log by Harish Bhat

In this compelling work, the noted behavioural and health policy expert Paul Dolan provides some simple and alluring prescriptions to strike an optimum balance between a fulfilling life and a happy existence. Using the Pleasure-Purpose-Principle ("PPP"), Dr.Dolan exhorts us to embarace the experiential self over the evaluating one. Demonstrating the virtues of adhering to simple … Continue reading Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think by Paul Dolan (Foreword), Daniel Kahneman (Foreword)

The United States of America and China - two undisputed behemoths heading for a collision course to assert their respective supremacy over the Planet. One a democratic colossus towering over the rest of the world and the other an emerging Titan with incredible potential and incredulously opaque policies. Geoff Dyer, in his assiduously researched book, … Continue reading The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dye

Employing the simple tool of a calendar as an able ally, Steve McClatchy exhorts the reader to make the transition from a capable manager to a transformer (not the Optimus Prime breed though). The effectiveness of a leader is simply the cumulative outcome of his decision making skills. Decisions are essentially of two generic kinds … Continue reading Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress and Lead by Example by Steve McClatchy

The Race; The Rivalry; The Result and The Recrimination. on the 24th of September, 1998 at 1.20 P.M in Seoul, 7 athletes limbered their bodies, trying to slacken and relax their muscles and limbs. However, Robson da Silva, Raymond Stewart, Lindford Christie, Desai Williams, Calvin Smith and Dennis Mitchell merely made up the numbers. The … Continue reading The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final (Wisden Sports Writing) by Richard Moore

First, let us get some inconvenient truths out of the way. I am not even a fan of 'Dilbert', let alone an incorrigible fanatic. In fact, most of the times I find the cartoon to be a condescending strip masquerading and showboating as a medium of art. However, heaping scorn of Scott Adam's work would … Continue reading How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life -Scott Adams

In this "where Gabriel Garcia Marquez-meets-Lewis Carroll" story, Haruki Murakami once again demonstrates with powerful precision that he is the undisputed master of a unique genre, an intricate blend of fictional realism, horror and metaphysics. An intrepid little boy, having been spontaneously incited in the mind to learn more about the methods employed by the … Continue reading The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (Illustrator)

In this deeply unsettling and original screenplay by one of the most renowned authors of our time, raw and contradictory human emotions tug and pull to create a confounding situation of pain, greed, deceit and death. Robert McEvoy, a restless, energetic and impulsive youth leaves home after an unfortunate accident that leaves him crippled. William … Continue reading The Gardener’s Son: a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy