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Review: It's a must book for those who have little entrepreneurial gene or interested in how people have struggled to establish themselves. The book doesn't have a high/low sine curve in terms of excitement. It covered a wide range of business and most of them are well known brands never knew those are IIMA grads creation. --Rakesh Satapathy Nov 22, 2012 a must read book for people who are thing of becoming entrepreneurs after completing their school of business. --rudhra Jun 21, 2015 I must recommend everyone to read the book at least one. Even i have gifted it to my brother. The stories were very inspiring which gives life to think in another direction. --Dipak 19 Feb 2015 About the Author: The author of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Rashmi Bansal, is an accomplished writer, youth expert and entrepreneur. She has authored four books on entrepreneurship, all of which have been bestsellers. These books have been translated into ten languages and have been able to sell...

Summary Of the Book: Robin Sharma, the well known personality development expert, teaches his life lessons in the form of stories. He creates a fictional person who faces a crisis and then teaches leadership principles through the lessons learnt by that person from his mentors. In this book, the story revolves around Peter Franklin, an entrepreneur. His software firm is struggling to survive, and he can see no way out. Just as he is about to throw up his hands and give up on everything, an old friend appears. It is the fast living lawyer, Julian Mantle, who became a monk in  The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.  He slowly teaches Peter how to get out of his situation. He teaches Peter how to turn his company into a good place for his workers, and then increase productivity. Mantle teaches Peter that unless his workers are feeling good about their work, have job security, and derive job satisfaction, there will not be much efficiency in their work, and no loyalty. H...

Summary Of The Book: Jonathan Landry is in a difficult phase in his life. He is experiencing the depths of despair, as he struggles to find motivation in his job, and is in a marriage that’s falling apart. During this phase, he happens to meet with his cousin Julian Mantle, the courtroom lawyer whose life was transformed after he renounced his materialistic possessions and received wisdom in the Himalayas. Julian wants Jonathan to retrieve all the secret letters that he had left behind with people that he had come across during his life-changing journey. Jonathan is reluctant to take up this mission, as he would have to leave behind his six-year-old son Adam. But he decides to go, without so much as an inkling of what’s in store for him as he goes about achieving this task. While collecting these secret letters, Jonathan travels to several cities around the world. He visits the Taj Mahal of India, the tango halls of Buenos Aires, the catacombs of Paris, and the brightly li...

This book is not only a self-help book but also a tool for having a successful business: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires! Within the pages of this extraordinary book, you will discover a practical yet powerful process to recreate your life and reconnect with your best self. Written as an engaging and heartfelt story, The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO offers you a potent blend of deep wisdom and practical life lessons that will help you discover your destiny, fill your life with a splendid sense of happiness, and become the fulfilled, passionate and on-purpose person you have always wanted to be. In this brilliant guide to living your life at its highest and most authentic level, you will learn: how to awaken your true gifts and shine powerfully in the world; the best way to have greater meaning, happiness and inner peace flow to you; how to transform your fears into freedom and your wounds into wisdom, and a remarkable series of tools to help you b...

  Summary Of The Book: Who Will Cry When You Die?  is a definitive voice of the human spirit that doesn’t just grapple with the mundane but the higher purpose of a legacy. In the pursuit of material accomplishments and tangibles, people often forget their inner voice. This is where Robin Sharma steps in with this self help book. What about the pursuit of happiness then? For everyone looking for inspiration to lead a more meaningful life and seeking out newer horizons that seem far away, this book takes them on a life altering journey. The method employed by Robin Sharma is making readers look at life with a glass half full approach that is infinitely more rewarding. The book has a number of lessons that are bound to push readers into a more thoughtful plane from where self discovery is the inevitable goal. Sharma eggs readers into truly discovering their calling through one lesson. Another deals with deeming troubles as blessings instead. In another chapter, he...

Summary Of The Book: Robin Sharma, a self-help and leadership consultant to many high profile organizations across the world, shows that the capacity for greatness lies within each person, in this book,  The Greatness Guide. The book shows readers that the change for the better they want to see in the world should start within themselves. As he says, the only person that one can possibly change is oneself. Then, the positive changes in a person begin to rub off on the others around them, extending the influence and effecting the change. The book has 101 chapters, each dealing with an aspect of personality or a trait that can be learnt or changed. The author shows through anecdotes from the lives of famous personalities and from his own personal experiences, the ways one can take the steps towards greatness. The book contains many ideas and suggestions that can be incorporated into one’s life to change it for the better. It teaches lessons through many different meth...

Summary Of The Book: Julian Mantle’s world was always limited to his work, material possession and money. However, his life takes a complete U turn when he is suddenly traumatized with a heart attack. Realization dawns on him and he decides to alter the course of his life. It is then that he decides to give up everything and entail a spiritual journey to the Himalayas in India in search of a more meaningful life. From the sages of the Sivana in the Himalayas he garners some newfound knowledge and philosophies, which goes on to change his life forever. When he comes back from his spiritual journey from the Himalayas there is a discernible change in him. He narrates his experience to his fellow colleague John and that is how the entire story and experience of Julian Mantle is related to us. The narratives of the spiritual journey that Julian Mantle undertakes take us on a ride to a profound and different perception of life. The book bestows on us the key to living a grea...