Crisp Reviews of Books On My Nightstand

  I have had my fair share of reading management books during my MBA days and now I am sort of averted by them mostly because of all the heavy jargons and anecdotes typically used in those book that makes reading monotonous. So when I was searching for my next book read, I definitely wasn't looking for a business book. But you do get intrigued a little bit when Bill Gates mentions a book as 'A business book I would actually recommend'.  To be honest, I have always been fascinated by Disney as a company and what it stands for. Not only its a biggest media company in the world but also has an interesting history about how did it get here? I was looking for a book that encapsulates that journey with "Disney magic" and this was it! This book is an autobiography of the former Disney CEO Robert Iger, who has played a monumental role in making Disney the Mammoth it is now.  He is the person who led Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Lucasfilm (which is basically all Star War...

Inspiration is just a feeling that is ignited in your mind when you see someone like you have achieved what you had dreamt for. The dream is now achievable to you but the hardest part is to convince your own self that this is reachable to you too. The distance between ‘I can’ and ‘I will’ takes further thousand steps. Inspiration can convert in action only when you feel yourself reaching the dream. Most people spend their life inspired by the stories of successful persons but never feel that they too have to ability to do the same. Only thing missing is faith that they are special too and they can reach the dream too. ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’, yet another beautiful book by Richard Bach, brings the same essence through a story of a gull that thinks beyond simply eating and surviving, and seeks higher purpose in life to become the best at what he loves. This is a story of people who dare to follow their dreams and make their own rules; even if they run contrary to the no...

If you believe in magic, not the one with tricks and illusions by magicians, but the one that life brings in for us, then you will definitely love the novel called Brida by a Brazilian   author   Paulo Coelho . It is the story of a beautiful young   Irish   girl and her quest for self-discovery, to the world far beyond our world and the one where magic is the truth of life. She knows she is different and she has to look for the answers to her questions. On her journey, she meets a wise man who teaches her to overcome her fears and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the hidden music of the world. She also discovers her soul mate and learns that love is the most divine emotion to be recognized and valued on the path to true wisdom and knowledge. The story is neatly woven around the ancient belief of witchcraft and is related to the present world in an interesting way. This magical treat by Paulo Coelho treasures the enthralling tale of love, passion...