November 10, 2012
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Some CEOs also display a singular lack of conscience when they fudge account books, siphon off funds and generally misuse power and office for their personal gain. Create a distinct cluster of the personality traits like focus, charm, fearlessness etc and then add a dash of low intelligence, violence and impulsiveness to this list and suddenly we are not describing a CEO. We are describing psychopaths who make up almost fifteen to twenty five percent of the prison population. The ingredients are the same. Just changing the amount of the ingredients is good enough to change a winning CEO to a Hannibal Lecter

October 2, 2012
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Book Review: Jugaad Innovation

Before you draw the conclusion that Jugaad is for those who cannot afford the real stuff, the book also has drawn on examples from the Fortune 500 companies to see how they are leveraging the same principles to drive innovation in a resource strapped world. Don't miss their take on six skills to look for if you are trying to hire innovators.

September 20, 2012
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Barfi

I had first heard of someone named Barfi in Satyajit Ray’s immortal classic called Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. Barfi was the evil magician who was concocting some evil potion or the other to help the villainous king. Played by Sarojini Naidu’s brother Harindranath Chattopadhyay. This review is about another Barfi.The […]
August 22, 2012
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Love, Life & Cliches

The Deccan Chronicle carried a review of Mediocre But Arrogant. The review was done by Anjana Basu who works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. Her poems have featured in anthologies published by Penguin India and Authorpress. Anjana Basu has worked on scripts with director, Rituparno Ghosh, for Antarmahal and […]
August 17, 2012
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The Truth About Dishonesty

Dan Ariely is a professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. His two other books that read were Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality attempted to explain behavioral economics to the lay person. Economics has always worked with the assumption that people make rational decisions to maximize their gains […]
July 21, 2012
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Broken Images

It is hard to write an objective review of Shabana Azmi’s performance in a film. I feel constrained having to choose between wonderful and brilliant in every sentence. She has the same effect on me on stage. In 1996 I saw her in the play Tumhari Amrita तुम्हारी अमृता adapted […]
July 7, 2012
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Groundswell

Groundswell means a broad deep undulation of the ocean, often caused by a distant storm or an earthquake. It could also mean a sudden gathering of force, as of public opinion. In this book, the emergence of social media is probably the equivalent of an earthquake that is shaking up […]
June 30, 2012
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Reverse Innovation

Vijay Govindarajan is a Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business. He also writes a column for Fast Company along with colleague Christ Timble who teaches strategic innovation. Govindarajan had famously launched a challenge to designers around the world to design a $300 house to empower the […]
June 22, 2012
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Interview: George Anders

Look at candidates' peripheral experience, instead, to see who has great tenacity, ingenuity, creativity, etc. that has been expressed outside the workplace so far -- but could be harnessed on the job. When I was at Google last year, they were intrigued by a resume from someone who had run the 1,000-mile Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska four times. That's a very hard race. Very few people do it once. Someone who did it four times has a stubbornness and a focus that is quite remarkable. You wouldn't hire such a person if they didn't have the right technical degrees, credentials, etc. But someone who was 94th percentile in work, with that extra background, might be a more promising candidate than someone with a 96th percentile ranking on mainstream measures and no other signs of standout dedication.