Reading with fillip

TAKE ME HOME

Entrepreneurs read a lot of stuff that inspires them, on same lines I've started reading a lot of books. At HBS the method they've acquired for making great management professionals is by making them study case studies, actually A LOT OF THEM.  Read it somewhere that HBS wants you to read their 300 case studies even before starting your first day at HBS. That's like huge number.

I wanted to read something similar which can give me a lot of case studies but of experienced Entrepreneurs of 80s. It's when I came across Rashmi Bhansals TAKE ME HOME book, which gave me stories of 20 Entrepreneurs, who started from scratch and touched the tip of iceberg. The lessons they learned from their failures and how the converted those difficulties into opportunities is the only point which made me read entire book. However for people who haven't read Rashmis other books, the book seems a bit monotonous and at some stages mercurial.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Anyways, I've ordered a new book on amazon, it's called Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Boo, Katherine. These books inspire me a lot. The success stories that turned failures into their huge success. I feel real journalism inside them, as if they want to tell stories of how they contributed in our countries growth.

Looking forward to have this book as early as possible, amazon.in is awesome in delivery. Let me know if you guys have got good reviews for any of these books. Tell me more about these books if you've got similar taste.

Managing Things and Managing Life

Enormous number of blogs, self-help books and many things have been created to address self management and hence time management, and for last 3-4 months, I've been reading them a lot. I've been concentrating on how others are creating time for themselves and utilizing it efficiently.
My company is generous enough to give me the opportunity to work from home whenever required. In past 3-4 months, I have to say this as I've been utilizing it in a better way than my white collar 9 to 5 job.

Improtance-Urgency Matrix

With little focus on Importance and urgency of the task, we get to know which task has to be on priority list and which ones can be delegated. This has helped me segregate work and find time for myself. After all, 5 minutes of planning in the morning, saves entire day ;)