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Book Review: Easternization

What I learnt about Asia’s rise and America’s Decline West: The Traditional “west”as a political concept has always had two pillars: North America and Europe East: Asia and Middle East I picked this book by Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, Gideon Rachman because it was on MIT’s list of best books for 2017 and I realized […]

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Book Review: Good to Great

When Emmanuel Osho recommended Good to Great, I was a bit skeptical about reading it because it was published in 2001 and one of the many things about books is that they tend to be outdated but since he was quite persistent I said why not. The book has about 7 chapters of principles which […]

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It’s an Alliance

In The Alliance by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh , a book which addresses talent management in companies, here are a few things out of many I learned. The relationship between employees and employers shouldn’t be described as a family (as most people like to do because it looks cool) but as a team. You can’t […]

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Lords of strategy

“There are three strands to the narrative, woven into a single braid. First is the history of the critical ideas, how they were devised, out of what forerunner materials, and in response to which particular problems. The second and third strands are the stories of people—Bruce Henderson, Michael Porter, Tom Peters, and others—and of organizations, […]