As the World War II was moving towards its conclusion, the main architects of the Nazi movement – Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels – managed to escape capture by committing suicide. Others were not able to...
Our sensory organs are created or have evolved to receive the stimuli from the external world in a predefined manner. By sensory organs, I refer to the organs devised for sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. We, the Homo...
We are predictably the prisoners of our own habits. It is said that our habits define our identity and eventually decide our future. What seems difficult, is to break the chains of the habits that we are surrounded with. It is...
Economics is a varied subject. There are many perspectives through which a specific viewpoint can be based on. Sadly, the policies effecting the macroeconomics require a gestation period running into decades and therefore the...
Sir Francis Bacon said “Knowledge is Power” and to be in possession of Power is fulfilling. The book “Superpower Syndrome” does not deal with the absolute nature of knowledge but reaches for a step further in analyzing...
There are many books which define Corporate Excellence through the tools of quality measurement both in product and service. But once in a while, there comes a book that brings about the inherent and underlying feature of...
It is said that business encompasses uncertainty. It may not be entirely true since there have been major business institutions that have outrun the competition by staying at the helm of affairs over several decades. But...
As we grapple against the pandemic of COVID-19, an impending dormant outbreak is awaiting its turn. This upsurge has been brewing since some decades and might eventually render humans vulnerable and defenceless. I’m insinuating...
This book is no ordinary compilation. It is a revelation. It shakes the fundamentals of the theory of “Laws of Averages” and radicalizes the “Gaussian Methods” in a deft and iconoclastic manner. Taleb is irreverent of the...
On occasions, I’ve been broadly wrong in my attempt to paraphrase a book that I have read. And on many an instance, I have been broadly right as well. Although, in both the cases, I never have been precisely right. The Old Man...
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