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Ten Books to reshape your thinking!

By Deepa

From this month’s HR News and Views! Getting things done: Mastering the Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker The path of least Resistance, Robert Fritz The 5 patterns of extraordinary careers, Jim Citrin and Rick Smith The Bodacious Book of Succulence, SARK Reimagine! Tom […]

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Books

By Deepa

From Shashi Tharoor’s most recent book “Bookless in Baghdad” “To me, books are like the toddy tappers?s hatchet, striking through the rough husk that enshrouds our minds to tap into the exhilaration that ferments within.? ?More than a century ago, Walter Pater wrote of art as ?professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality […]

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Excerpts from “The path of Least Resistance for Managers”, Robert Fritz

By Deepa

One of the books on creativity that made a profound impact on me was Robert Fritz’s book, ?The path of Least Resistance?. This is what Peter Senge of The Fifth Discipline fame says of Robert Fritz ?? is without a doubt one of the most original thinkers today on the creative process in business, the […]

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‘Driven – Inside BMW, the most admired car company in the world’ by David Kiley

By Deepa

I have just started reading ?Driven ? Inside BMW, the most admired car company in the world? by David Kiley It promises to be interesting and I hope to be writing more about it. I asked Panke, (BMW?s chairman Dr. Hemut Panke) who was a consultant at Mckinsey and Co. before joining BMW in 1982, […]

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A valuable lesson

By Deepa

I just finished reading ?Agent of Change: My Life, My Practice?, Richard Beckhard, one of the founding practitioners of Organizational Development. My most valuable takeaway from the book was the following insight: ?From earlier work, I had learned about the hourglass theory of energy: under stress, individuals or organization systems experience high negative energy. Because […]

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