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Sunday, June 20, 2010

One of the tamil books that I have enjoyed in recent times. The actor's another dimension is celarly visible here. His erudition of ramayana and that of kamban is clearly available to all.

He has selected about 100 poems from Kamaba ramayana and has given fantastic commentary on the same. He has simplified the tamil a bif of the poems so that even people like me can read them.

Gems!!

I am going to read kamba ramayana fully now!!
A psychological thriller. I have read about the author and have seen some rave reviews. The writing is indeed taut and as good as there is. The girl who cannot remember what really happened. The police enquiry lines. The murders which have piled up. The circumstantial evidence for anyone of the dozen people who can be the suspects.






But the ending was not very good. Introducing new facts and figures to finish off the story? Never liked that kind of an ending.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Wow!

What a book.

It is not everyday that I read a book and sit up and want to go back to office and tell all my colleagues what all we can do together. But, that is exactly what this book made me do.




A few key learnings :

1) The top guy should be passionate about innovation and getting it right
2) The entire company should move forward and the consumer should become the boss
3) It is possible to work with the competition and other outside groups profitably
4) It is possible to make growth exciting and learning rewarding
5) It is possible to make innovation and consumer the central tenet of every single thing that you do

Very good book. It demonstrates what is possible. Written also very well by Ram charan and Leafly.