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Bookshelf
Welcome to the latest section of Alma Matters “Bookshelf” - a platform where people can share their comments, feelings and thoughts about various books they read. From business and economics to SCI-FI, thriller and comedy…please feel free to contribute to this section by writing to us at alumni_relations@isb.edu
Recommended Readings by Sukhmeet Singh
Sukhmeet is from class of 2007 and is working as Associate Director in the Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing at ISB, Mohali. His interests include playing badminton and running.
“Every Street Is Paved With Gold”, by Kim Woo- Choong
I remember when I was in my final year of engineering; this book was gifted to me by a Wharton graduate who was an entrepreneur. The book is written by the founder Chairman of Daewoo and focuses on thinking differently and seeking an opportunity for success in every field. It consists of short-stories and quotes about his learnings from the business world and many of these stories contain thought provoking business and professional tips. He gives numerous examples of hard work, seeing new opportunities, effective team management and how risk taking and hard work can take a business to new heights. I would recommend this book to both-working professionals and entrepreneurs.
“The Winning Way: Learnings From Sport For Managers”, by Harsha Bhogle and Anita Bhogle
When I joined ISB, the learnings we got specifically on team working, leadership and competition were familiar to me. I have been interested in sports since my school days and remember being taught the same things on the playing field as well on how you take your team along, how important is leadership and no matter how high the stakes are, competition should be beaten in fair play and not foul play. In that context, this book is quite useful and provides insights of leadership traits by deriving analogies from the world of sports. It motivates you to give your best to any situation and is an excellent read for all aspiring leaders. Especially in an Indian context where the craze for cricket is un-ending, the reader can easily connect to most of the examples and the learnings can be implemented in work life as well. Do read it if you connect with sports!!
Recommended Reading by Megha Dada Chawdhry
Megha is from the PGP class of 2014 and is a design junkie and shutter bug. Passionate about new media, she has delved in different brand advocacy & community driven initiatives. Her avocation and vocation are an absolute mix of all three aspects and she's making the best of her time at ISB to see how they can all converge.
“Many Lives, Many Master”, by Dr. Brian Weiss
Many Lives, Many Masters is an account of true life experiences of the author - a psychotherapist - when he discovers the potential of past life therapy. On meeting his 27-year old patient, Catherine, who had come to him seeking help for her anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias, he was taken aback at what unfolded in the therapy sessions that followed. It jolted him out of his conventional ways of thought and psychiatry. For the first time, he came face-to-face with the concept of reincarnation and the many tenets of Hinduism, which, as he says in the last chapter of the book, “I thought only Hindus… practiced.”
In a series of trance-like states, Catherine recalled “past life” memories that proved to be the causative factors of her recurring nightmares and anxiety attack symptoms. She remembers “living 86 times in physical state” in different places on this earth both as male and female. And in each lifetime she experiences myriad events “making progress… to fulfill all of the agreements and all of the Karmic (from Hindu concept of Karma) debts that are owed.”
Dr. Weiss’s skepticism eroded when she began to channel messages from “the space between lives”, messages from the many Masters (highly evolved souls not presently in body).Then, while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives state, she learns from the Masters great wisdom and becomes a conduit for transcendental knowledge.
Reading this book was worth the time-spent and I would recommend this to all.