Words To Live By
May 9, 2013 Leave a comment
Chetan Bhagat – One Night @ The Call Centre
May 7, 2013 3 Comments
Last week I joined a new library and this was the first book I checked out. Chetan Bhagat is the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history and he was featured in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.Fast Company USA numbers him among the 100 most creative people in business. Chetan is today a very successful motivational speaker.After a mechanical Engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an IIM (A) MBA,Chetan worked in Hong Kong as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.He quit investment banking to start writing to make change happen India.His is believed to be the voice of India’s rising entrepreneurial class.After reading the book I can see why Chetan is India’s paperback king.Do read the book if you get a chance.Till then,here are my takeaways from the book:
“So, to impress you I have to break the same laws of physics I made?”-God
The most important call in the world – The inner call,the little voice inside that wants to talk to you.But you can only hear it when you are at peace. The voice tells you what you really want.It is easy to ignore-because you are distracted or busy or just too comfortable in life.You can ignore it until life brings you to a dead end and there is nothing ahead but a dark hole.Sometimes the voice isn’t subtle,it shouts and bites you. Read more of this post
Dutch Disease
May 6, 2013 Leave a comment
The term “Dutch disease” originates from a crisis in the Netherlands in the 1960s that resulted from discoveries of vast natural gas deposits in the North Sea. The new found wealth caused the Dutch guilder to rise, making exports of all non-oil products less competitive on the world market.Today the term is used in the context of exchange rates,to refer to the negative consequences arising from large increases in a country’s foreign currency inflows including – foreign direct investment, foreign indirect investment,foreign aid etc in addition to the ill effects on non-resource industries a by the increase in wealth generated by the resource-based industries. Read more of this post
Naresh Goyal
May 6, 2013 Leave a comment
Naresh Goyal
Rarely do we come across pieces on entrepreneurs, written by their peers.The following is one of them,written by Captain Gopinath .Do read it and enjoy!
My personal opinion is that the good Capt.is somewhat stinting in his praise.But then perhaps I am biased, being a shareholder of both airlines and having had to live with the consequences of their decisions.Anyways, little known travel agent is not how his contemporaries in the Mumbai airport during his early days recall him.A knowledgeable,helpful and dependable person is the feeling I get from hearing their stories.There’s more about his early life after the piece by Capt. Gopinath. Read more of this post
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