HBR'S 10 MUST READS ON TEAMS

Whether you are looking to get a business degree or you are an executive or entrepreneur-beginner, mid level, senior or whatever level or you are a school administrator may be a Principal of College or student or whosoever

HBR'S 10 MUST READS ON TEAMS

is a must read book. It's a collection of ideas and best practices anyone looking to thrive in career should love to read. 

The book contains topics from following

1. Change Management
2. Collaboration
3. Communication
4. Innovation
5. Leadership
6. Making Smart Decisions
7. Managing People
8. Managing Yourself
9. Strategic Management
10. Strategy
11. Teams 
12. The Essentials

It took me nearly a month to read about approximately 180 pages as some day I read non, other days may be 20/30 minutes. Highly engaging, highly practical in professional and personal management. 

My favorite topic in the Book is Virtuoso Teams by Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton. Find your Favorite..... 

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The book is published by Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

Anyone can read this book. In the age group when boys was learning how to eat in a decent quality restaurant and how to tie the shoelaces correctly, today's young kids are building companies. Its wonderful. That is why, I thought to share this book here.

Which one book are reading currently? Please do not shy of in sharing through comment box, perhaps someone like me or you need to read that book. 

The Richest Man in Babylon could be the First Finance Management Lesson for many

The Richest Man in Babylon was first published nearly a Century ago. Often, I found that title resting across street book stalls. However, nowadays, rich lessons and preaching are so high, I never thought to pick a title related to finance about which I knew nothing. I would believe what is written and because of no financial training perhaps I won't find one such book worth reading.
I buy books when their title appeals to me, something like a mathematical symbol, a scientific word, or maybe fusion of technology in management. While walking across streets nearby where there was nothing much left to do for me, I stumbled upon a street side book shop, asked the price and the vendor was selling it for 100 bucks. I thought OK, lets see what is inside this book, maybe I would find it boring but let's see. 
I burnt out 100 bucks and to my surprise I read the entire book in a three day gap. I am a novice in finance. Long back I bought a domain name FinanceBazaar.Online just in the hope perhaps someday I will build a website related to finance management, that would be helpful to common people like me who don't understand finance.
This was born from the times when I was looking for a home to buy and every private was ready to pay any amount of loan. But one question was in my mind why no banker is asking me for repayment capacity. Indeed home thought was postponed for the future for obvious reasons.
And here is my suggestion to everyone who can understand literature written in simple words, if you are novice in finance, or you think you know everything about finance because you have a degree in the same or you are expert in those excel sheets, Read once The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason.
Perhaps you know many things about finances but your learning will not be complete without reading this book.
The Richest Man in Babylon teaches you ways to live life. The fiction has documented well the human stories of those times. Finance is an integral part of life, its one pillar, build your own, Hack Gaps.  
The Richest Man in Babylon is easy to understand by one and applicable to all including established finance experts.

Must Read Book: "Measure What Matters"

 Whether you are a college student, graduate student or executive professional Measure What Matters' is a treasure. If you have read this book already, that's super cool. If not grab your copy. This is not a promotional post. Measure What Matters teach you about how to implement OKRs in work settings. I have gone through this word by word and really now I know the first step.

I don't belong to a family of entrepreneurs or management professionals and nobody was there to guide me. These are books, books, and books only those helped me truly in living life. Everyone has a choice so does you. I like reading around and about science, engineering and technology. I do buy a book when its title attracts to my eyes. Any word, any phrase, any mathematical symbol when in a Title get my eyeballs. Then I try my best to read it before anyone else reads.

Measure What Matters is written by John Doerr who worked for Intel with Sir Andy Groove. The book is divided into Two Sections; section 1 talks about OKRs, and Section 2 is about CFRs. You can find this book from shopping websites very easily.

Personally, I love to call this book Andy Groove Theory of Management.

And, I can bet on it, once you read, the learning not apply to work settings but a lot in personal life too. OKRs and CFR are about how you approach to a problem, execute program to solve it and get results. This book will take your understanding about execution to next level. Yes, if you are programmer your approach to execute the program next day will change.

Measure What Matters is a must read book. To know what will you get inside go through those pages and say Thank you to John Doerr. Hack Gaps

 

How to prepare for GRE

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The Official Guide to the GRE General Test, Third Edition and
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GRE is accepted worldwide. Test score is highly helpful specially if you are looking to study abroad. In addition many employers also look for GRE Score even if they actually don't need such a score but GRE Score indicates your level of competencies.

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Everybody loves books. Perhaps some can argue and say a Nay. Someone can say, no, I love Piano. Show him a great book about a great pianist and see the reaction. Times have changed, its era of ebooks. The beginning of 22nd Century shall be known in history for 3 technological innovations: 1. Smartphones (in every pocket); 2. Elearning (Virtual Classrooms) and 3. Social Media (it’s viral). The Cloud will be the biggest innovation of 22nd century. Definitely concept is in existence since long back but virtual cloud started taking it space only very recently.