Readers are Leaders, and every time you read, you learn something new. Thankful to all the authors who made 2022 memorable in terms of reading. Here is a summary of the books I read in 2022. Non-Violent Communication – Marshall B...
Subtract is a good book written by Leidy Klotz. We always keep adding in life and do not subtract. To lead a healthy and good life subtracting should be a key part of the plan. However, the author also writes that it is not just about Subtraction...
I was preparing to speak at the DCKAP Summit in Los Angeles, CA, and Selvan D, our Director of Marketing, recommended that I read Only the Paranoid Survive, written by the former legendary CEO of Intel. Andy Grove, in his book, speaks about...
I recently read Deep Work by Cal Newport. I am thankful and glad that I read it and it helped reinforce my learnings. With the MAANG (meta, apple, amazon, Netflix and Google) companies around us, it is very difficult to do Deep Work. However...
Thanks to Ryan Van Hoozer. When I was chatting with Ryan, he talked about the Innovators by Walter Isaacson. I decided to give it a read and am thankful that I read it. Walter writes, ‘Great ideas are a result of ideas that flow from a large...
Running effective meetings is always a challenge. We all have different needs when it comes to running our meetings? Meetings can make or break a company. With all of us working together in a distributed manner, running effective meetings is...
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a book written by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. NVC means you communicate with compassion. The author explains the four components of Nonviolent Communication. 1. Observations, 2. Feelings, 3. Needs, and 4. Request. It is...
A colleague of mine Bharat Kulkarni recommended this book ‘The Psychology of Money‘- by Morgan Housel. As I was recently traveling and needed something to read on the plane, I picked this one up. It was a relatively simple & short...
In the summer of 2018, I was living in a place called Aliso Viejo, CA and happened to see the words ‘Readers are Leaders’ at Oak Grove Elementary School. This caught my attention. Travel teaches you a lot of things. We started putting ‘Readers are...