Abhinav Agarwal

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Friday, November 17, 2017

The No Asshole Rule, by Robert Sutton

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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, by Robert Sutton I n preparation for a review of...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Mahabharata and Wealth

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W hat does wealth mean to you? Let me start with myself. It has meant different things at different points in time and life. I suppose thi...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande

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T here is a famous story in the Mahabharata concerning Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas and Kauravas. Because of a curse, he l...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Black Money and Tax Havens Paperback, by R Vaidyanathan - Review

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Black Money and Tax Havens Paperback, by R Vaidyanathan T he subject of black money and tax havens that facilitate and act as conduits ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Aadhaar, by Shankkar Aiyar - Review

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Aadhaar A Biometric History of India's 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar T his book is perhaps the most detailed and compreh...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Text and Interpretation - Types of commentaries

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Text and Interpretation - The Indian Tradition, by Kapil Kapoor T his is an excerpt from Prof. Kapil Kapoor's book, "Text an...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Rise of the Robots, by Martin Ford - Review

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,  by Martin Ford " I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; ...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Infosys, NRN, Sikka - No one is smelling of roses here

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C orporate sagas seem to come in twos. The  mega-fracas  that erupted in 2016 between  Cyrus Mistry , then Chairman of Tata Sons, and t...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Between Strategy and Success Lies Execution

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Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? T his one comes from the  Sep-Oct, 2017  issue of  Harvard Business Review . Between strat...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Inside Chanakya’s Mind: Aanvikshiki and the Art of Thinking - Review

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Inside Chanakya’s Mind: Aanvikshiki and the Art of Thinking, by Radhakrishnan Pillai T he relevance of Chanakya to today's world h...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Jobs Trilogy - 1 - How to Add Skills to your LinkedIn Resume

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Photo by  Tim Gouw  on  Unsplash S eeing the gay abandon and effortless ease with which people in today's hyper-connected world see...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

The Jobs Trilogy - 2 - Six and One Types of Interviewers

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R emember Chuck Noland? The character in the movie Castaway, who has to use the blade of an ice-skate to extract his abscessed tooth, with...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Management Mantras for Startups - Waste Not, Vacate Not

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Image credit: pexels.com Waste Not, Vacate Not. W hen Jeff Bezos , founder and CEO of Amazon, started out Amazon, he, along wit...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Natural Enmity - Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra

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Natural Enmity - Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra [Book 1], by Ashay Naik A shay Naik's book, " Natural ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Flipkart and the Art of Advertising Mishaps - 1

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I n the age of startups, especially in the e-commerce space, where money is plentiful - or till a a year or so back, used to be - the o...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Mahabharata, Book Two - Ambition, by Somdip Datta

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I s there a new way to present the Mahabharata? A story as epic and grand as the Mahabharata has inspired the great and the devoted alike...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Usability, Product Management, and LinkedIn - a rant

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L inkedIn began as a professional networking site, has evolved into a social media behemoth, and has yet managed to maintain and sharpen...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Quotes - Raja Dharma Parva

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The Mahabharata, Vol. 8 Translated by Bibek Debroy [Unabridged English translation of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute'...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Quotes - Apad Dharma Parva

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These are selected quotes from the Apad Dharma Parva of the Mahabharata. The quotes are taken from Vol.8 of Bibek Debroy's unabridge...
Monday, May 22, 2017

The Dark Cloud of the H1-B Fallout for Indian Companies: Layoffs or Reduced Valuations

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I ndia's second-largest IT company, Infosys, put out a press release on the 2nd of May, 2017 ( link ), that it would be hiring ...
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