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You Can Sell by Shiv Khera

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About the Book This is the book for the people who sell Product. He covers 31 different heading in 300 pages. Marketing subject like rejections in selling, handling customers, how to put yourself during negotiation, ethical selling …etc. Each chapter will come with action points to fill.  Pros Written in simple way Covering almost all the topic required for marketing people few places with small stories and Great leaders quotes Cons If the author covered some of topic with real time examples like how people turn around things example then it might have added more value to the book. My Take From this book No doubt this book with give more valuable thoughts and drive you to work more efficiently. 

Men of Steel by Vir Sanghvi

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This is a different kind of business book with out numbers and the author try to understand the other side of business leader’s life. Small book (109 pages). But very useful to know about 11 business people  …. Rathan Tata, Azim Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Sunil Bharthi Mittal, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Subhash Chandra, Uday Kotak, Bikki Oberoi, Nusli Wadia and Vijay Mallya. For a week end quick read this is the best book. 

Jago Investor by Manish Chauhan

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This book is about personal finance. An outline guide how to handle you money what you earn. If you are looking for a book to know about personal finance then you can start with this book. Manish Chauhan blog is one of the top blog in India about personal finance. Few things from this book Start saving when you start earning. Why Term Insurance is important to protect the family. Plan for short term and long terms financial goals. Invest on Equity Publish by Network 18 (CNBC TV).

Turning Points: A Journey through Challenges by A P J Abdul Kalam

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This book is about the life of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam during the president of India from 2002 - 2007. This is his second autobiography. The first one is the wings of fire . Many interesting things we can know from his book. ·          During his five years, he travelled more to villages than to cities in India. ·          Changes the president office into e-governance. ·          Talked about vision 2020 to make India as a developed nation - to as many students as possible. ·          He visited the riots hit place in Gujarat immediately after becoming president. What make Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam different from other? This what he said about Gujarat Visit? “I decided that my mission was not to look at what had happen, not to look at what was happening, but to focus on what should be done.” Beautiful book and ...

The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau

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If some one believe small is beautiful and would like to start and stay small, then this book give more detail about how individuals came out from the rat race and started by their own. This book is the combination of how they did it and How to do!! From the book “imagine a life where all your time is spent on the things you want to do “ I enjoyed reading this book. To know more about this book check this link   The $100 Startup .Here is Chris Guillebeau website 

Chetan Bhagat – Revolution 2020

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 Same Chetan Bhagat story line IIT , Love , Politics … etc . While reading you can predict couple of thing what is going to happen next .But still he moves the pages interestingly.On think we need to agree he is  good in story telling. If he wants to scale up to the next level in writing, then he has to come out first from this IIT Stuffs  becoming very boring now. Then we can see the real revolution !!

Be Rich and Happy by Robert Kiyosaki

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In this book the author challenge the traditional way of schooling and open some out of box thinking!! What solution our education system providing for the poor performance students in the school??!! Take a job where you can learn more.Earning should come next. Ask for Pay hick only when you improve on what you are doing now professionally. Do not ask for a hick for what you are doing repeatedly for years. You company can not grow if you have this attitude. Rich people create wealth and poor people consume things. Spend time to understand other professional things. You will get more idea for you present problems. Keep in mind Money should work for you . You should not run for making money.  

Second World War by Marudhan

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இரண்டாà®®் உலகப் போà®°் - மருதன் Finish reading this book .Those who wants to know the brief history of World War II should not miss to read this book. It is difficult to write the history of  WW II in 325 pages, but Marudhan did a wonderful job. The journey towards the past is full of surprise and disaster .Around 70 million people died during 1939-1945 in this war!! After the WW II many countries map got changed few added few lost its territory. If you ask why this WAR at the cost of 70 million peoples life .It is all for business!!  World History is different from what we read  in school books!! So do not miss to read the history  As some one said Without understanding the past you cannot understand the present To know more about the author visit his blog   Marudhan 

Connect the Dots by Rashmi Bansal

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The story of 20 success full Entrepreneurs WITHOUT a MBA!! This book is very much different from the previous book Stay Hungry Stay foolish. The idea of selecting a different topic business success without MBA we need to appreciate the author. The information on this book is going to inspire many of us . Its start with DOSA PLAZA Prem Ganapathy from Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu .Started his career as dish washer and grown up to  Dosa Plaza food chain with 26 outlet!! Kunwer Sachdev a BSc graduate, started a company Su-Kam and turned into a 500 Crore company. Ganesh Ram, started to take tuition for 3 failed plus two student .He grown to become India’s larger trainer of spoken English – Veta Hanmant Gaikwad, His Company BVG – Bharat Vikas Group do cleaning & they clean the Rashtrapati Bhavan too!! Rs 300 Crore company Suresh Kamath, Laser Soft Infosystem who started a software company without a computer!! Many more to add the story behind Tantra...

Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen - How 11 Indians pulled off the impossible by Porus Munshi

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Now Reading .... This is the book about Indian company / person who thought out of box and made a orbit shift change to them, to the company ,to the society From the book ... Aravind Eye Hospital - Madurai ,Tamil Nadu Its a not-for-profit institution Treat 2.4 Million outpatients and does 2,86,000 cataract surgeries every year .Which make them the largest ophthalmological institution in the world !! Got the Idea of assemble line operation from McDonald's and introduced in there hospital for surgery. An average ophthalmologist operate 250 to 400 patients in a year .An Aravind ophthalmologist operates 2000 patients a year Very Interesting and eye opening fact about Indian Organization. Its not always the Apple or Microsoft .... we can also do this !!

My Virtual Bookshelf

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www.shelfari.com This is a interesting web site for book lovers !! You can have a virtual Book self where you can arrange the books by I Plan to Read I'm Reading Now I've read It Its easy to add the book to your shelf .We can join a group , connect with friend and see what they are reading .. very good stuff .  The information people share about book what they read is awesome !! .Thanks to technology , we can see & share information with the world with one click !!!  It is the biggest advantage and power of networking The concept and design of this web site is too good !!

2 states (The story of my marriage) - Chetan Bhagat

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Finish reading chethan Bhagat latest book 2 States – The Story of my marriage . Its a small non friction novel , Boys is from North India Punjab & girl is from South India Tamil Nadu .I hope you have guessed the outline of the story now. I have read all his novels Five Point Someone , One Night @ the Call Center , The 3 Mistakes of My Life . Some time in life you will be gifted with inborn talents.The success of each writer is to take you from the first page of his book to the last page. In many place he is making us to laugh in this book .I like the front page map of Punjab and Tamil Nadu in red color .Its fun to read this book I believe this story is a inspiration from his own experience , Chetan Bhagat is a Punjabi married to a south india . Link to his official web site Chetan Bhagat .