Month: May 2025

Book Review 2025.08: Don’t Believe Everything You Think (2022), Paperback 167 pages, May 15, 2025 Attracted by the intriguing title, I picked up this book at Bangaluru Airport last week and completed it in five sittings. Written in a simple language, the author presents his crisp core message that is repeated multiple times with an incremental level of detail added with each repetition. These repetitions are targeted at getting the reader to imbibe the simple message which could take considerable …

Book Review 2025.07: To Sell Is Human (2012), Paperback 233 pages, May 5, 2025 Despite three decades of corporate work experience, I had to start my own business to appreciate the challenge of Sales, and more important the challenge of recruiting successful sales personnel. Notwithstanding sales being the most critical ingredient for the business success, it is probably the least taught, the least researched and the least discussed subject, except among close group of struggling professionals or entrepreneurs, who like …

Book Review 2025.06: A Natural History of Love (1995), Paperback 337 pages, May 1, 2025 I have been fascinated by the concept of love, especially romantic love, since teenage, which is the foundation for my sustained and deep interest in film music of all my known languages, especially ghazals and Urdu poetry for which I make an extra effort to learn the meaning of new words that I come across even today. Prompted by this interest, I purchased this book …