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Krishna Calls: "The first step is the most difficult one. Once taken, all other steps follow effortlessly". This I have learnt in the context of habits. How about abandoning reading in the middle? If you think I have read over 1000 books in my life, to tell you the truth, I have fully completed, taken notes of and reviewed ONLY about 400. Whereas I have quit in between, skimmed, skipped reading over 600 books because my attention was not worth spending on them. So, even if you apply brakes on healthy routines in life, restart quickly so your following steps go on autopilot. Though I have covered a lot of ground on Spirituality, here comes the ultimate words of wisdom, "Srimad Bhagavatam" from God Himself. Because in India, He did not trust 'Messengers' as the communication may get twisted. If you thought it's the good-old Bhagavat Gita, think again. It's different! Short review attached for starting up 'Knowing Yourself'. For those who don...

Paul Polak, author of  Out of Poverty , wrote: "90 percent of the world’s products and services are designed for 10 percent of the world’s population-to meet the desires, rather than actual needs, of the richest people on earth." How true! On the contrary, Jugaad is what brings in simple and creative solutions to real problems faced by the masses. Here's an interesting book, Jugaad Innovation" born out of Indian ingenuity, with international examples, on how to unleash our innovative spirits while designing products and services. As the sub-title goes, it's a Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation for the 21st Century". Creative Spirits Unleashed: The company you keep, keeps you motivated. I fondly recall my discussions on this book in my hand with our young and intelligent HR Professional friend, Pradeep Unnikrishnan, a few years back. It has taken some time to read. But it’s worth it. Again, another book by an author-trio after the Toyota Lean Produc...

Mostly Motivational: I have read somewhere the Dalai Lama saying: "Go out of circulation, once in six months!"  What he means is to travel out of your city/town/home to break the routine life and connect with Nature. Else the mind in its natural course will set a 'concrete context for life', particularly if you are living in a concrete jungle! If Corona has constrained your travel, alternatively why not pick up a book that expands your worldview to take stock of your life story? Here's a short review of the wise book, "Most and More" from Mahatria Ra, the well-known modern sage. It's a packed-power-punch. Gulp it to strengthen the soul. If a senior trainer and Guru of Gurus in Indianoil like Shri K M Krishnakumar, former Chief HRD Manager, Indianoil-SRO, blesses you with a book-gift, it is only your duty to cherish reading it. And I did. Though I have seen the witty video wisdom of Mahatria Ra, in the WhatsApp world and mostly (rather, more not less,...

Man and the Machine on the Roads The Energy Industry today is on the cusp of change. This is an understatement and we all know, even as we experience the advent of smoke-less transportation vehicles that will soon dominate to move men and materials on the roads. NOW is also the time to look back at the Century of Cars through the eyes of impeccable researchers by reading history of car manufacturers of the world from Europe to US to Japan, shifting from craft-producer to mass-manufacturer to Lean Producers and learn valuable lessons from history. Sharing with you a s hort review of "How Lean Production Revolutionized the Global Car Wars", for teasing your thought-process, as Man-Managers who manufacture products for man's use! Man is NOT a Machine: The current-day scientists think that man is nothing but a bundle of bio-chemical algorithm. I beg to differ. Man is NOT just a machine. Though we appear to be caught into a daily/monthly/lifetime routine like machines, yet...

Naked pursuit for Truth: When you are writing a lot, the reading takes a back seat. As I was writing, editing and packing my second work, “The Bookwallah MBA” giving Exciting Reviews of Wisdom from 75 Bestsellers of recent decades, so-to-say the cream of human knowledge, the current book in my hand by Osho obviously was slowing down. After all, you know what happens when riding two horses at the same time! Now that the Bookwallah has hit the Kindle and Amazon stands, my hands are free. Also, my mind and Osho got his total attention. The publisher of the book ‘Behind A Thousand Names’ and a lot others by OSHO, is Full Circle. Coincidentally, I also seem to have come a full circle in reading spirituality. I read Rajneesh two decades back and went through a lot of spiritual masters’ speeches, writings after that from Jiddu Krishnamurthi to Jaggi Vasudeo, from Ramakrishna to Ramana Maharishi and from Vivekananda to Eckhart Tolle. This particular one came with the strong recommendatio...

Human beings are programmable. We are nothing but a ‘bio-chemical-algorithm’. Just think of it. Our hardware-the body, manages itself very well. Whether we are ‘present’ are not. Even when we were absent yesterday night, it digested all the dinner we ate. It managed the breathing rhythm, temperature and even hit the mosquito that sat on our body, in a reflex action. As a matter of fact, the it ‘doesn’t need’ us. We only need to maintain and help it perform better. Coming to our software side. We are blessed with an unlimited and expandable hard disk, a super processor and quite a bit of RAM (70,000 thoughts-program code) per day, besides the pre-loaded ROM (DNA), OS and other sub-routines. With our (Mind) Control Unit, we are actually programming ourselves every day. Deciding to do ‘what we want’ and ‘making it happen’ in the world around us. Hence, we are the masters of our destin(y)ation. Paul Goleman in his book ‘Change Your Habits & Change Your Life in 21 days’ points to ...

In a way, the words ‘Life’ and ‘Integrity’ are synonymous. Ask me how? Come to think of it, can life even exist if it is not an integrated ‘self-sustaining’ piece? Life is here on this planet ONLY because, the very silent neutron and the centerpiece proton encircled by the hyperactive electrons ‘stay together’ in harmony. If their bond becomes unstable or ‘unreliable’, they disintegrate and life, as we know, ceases to BE. The usual and casual question humans ask when they meet is ‘How is life?’ It is also customary to either say ‘Fine’ as a mechanical reply or if time is there, crib about our current ‘life situations’ rather than connecting with the pulsating life inside. Looking at human life, it is crystal clear that ‘integrity’ forms the bedrock of our very existence. Nature is testimony to this fact that any imbalance in co-existence leads to chaos and calamities. Coming to social life, if there is a discord between ‘what we say and what do’, cracks in our personality are spotte...