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...

There is a quote in Srimad Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit which says “Jatasya Maranam Dhruvam”. It literally means that the star called Dhruv which rise in night has to set but the implied meaning of the saying is “That which is born shall die”. We know that our life is not eternal and there is an end for our life too, but we don’t want to think about our end or even the journey called life. We keep ourselves too busy in our goals and fight so hard to reach those goals that we forget to give time to the most important things in life.  Here is a story by Mitch Albom where he shares the lessons of life he learnt from his long-lost professor. In his last days, Professor Morrie, or what he would like to be called ‘Coach’, would act as a mentor for the writer and answer the questions which were bothering writer from long time. The questions which our generation doesn’t want to think about, may be because we are too scared to know the answer. The writer and his professor takes us ...