Author of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish visits TAPMI

T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), one of the leading B-Schools in India organized ‘Face to Face’ an Entrepreneurship Development lecture by Rashmi Bansal, the author of the much talked about book ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’, an entrepreneur and youth expert in management at the TAPMI campus, recently.

The lecture was organized by Organization for Managerial, Entrepreneurial Guidance and Assistance (OMEGA) Committee.

Addressing the students, Rashmi said,”Entrepreneurship is all about actually doing. It’s about not taking placements but starting something on your own. We should all try to create something new and make a difference.

She said ”OMEGA invites successful entrepreneurs and business leaders to TAPMI Campus to share their knowledge, experiences and the challenges they faced in setting up their businesses with the students. “The young management students get to know from these entrepreneurs about the intricacies of setting up a business and hurdles encountered.

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Igniting minds, empowering lives

P.S. Rathore is helping many individuals find the fire within

At the age of 36, P.S. Rathore claims to have transformed many lives. His turf is the mind, and the aim is to aid more and more people rule it. The latest to have joined the bandwagon of mind trainers and personality developers in India, an affable Rathore says, “India's thought process is limited only to one's kith and kin. My strength lies in speaking so, I utilised it to contribute to the society in my way.”

A post graduate in management consultancy, the motivational guru uses exercises to help people overcome their emotional and professional complexities. “Nobody or nothing has the power to suppress you. All your anxieties and pressures can be unleashed whenever you want. You can also identify if anyone is bluffing you,” he says.

Rathore's latest book, Discover The Power Within, is a self help book which can help people establish an instant rapport with anybody within the fraction of a second and can break stereotypes that exist in our society. “What happens when at office you don't do something? Somebody else does it, right? Similarly, if you don't tell your wife that you love her, somebody else will,” Rathore states elaborating the crux of his book.

Full report here Hindu

Knotty questions

A down to earth and humorous take on the changing nature, and expectations we have, of the institution of marriage.

Confession time. I don't do self-help books. Never. People in the books I read read them, people I know read them, heck, I even know of people who write them. But I've always turned up my nose and looked supercilious when a friend raved about the book that saved her life, or that must-read tome that would change the way I looked at the world. I was quite happy with my life and my POV of the world, thank you, I thought. Besides, all self-help books were about men, marriages or management, and what could a writer teach me about them that life couldn't?

Plenty, it seems to me, after reading Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed. While admittedly dancing around the fringes of the man-marriage-management formula, Gilbert brings to her follow-up to the best-selling Eat, Pray, Love the kind of common sense and insight about human relationships your mum would have been proud to pass on to you. What's more, she leavens the history with humour of the self-deprecatory kind, the research with the readability quotient of a thriller. She comes across as intelligent, kind and very much the sort of woman you'd like to have as a best friend when you're doubting the institution of marriage.

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May I help you?

They have been there since long and their future seem secure. Yes, one is talking about self-help books, also called how-to books. Visit any bookstore, swanky or by the sidewalk, across Delhi, you will find such books always aplenty, simply because their takers have never been on the wane.

Declares Shiv Khera, a big name in the genre of self-help books, “There has always been a huge demand for good self-help books worldwide and there will always be.” Author of “You Can Win”, one of the most sold books in the genre, he says, “I write such books from my practical knowledge unlike some people who are writing these days just to earn a few bucks.” He warns readers against falling for “books written by many self-proclaimed management gurus these days.” “I don't consider myself as one of them as I am still a student of learning,” he adds.

To gain interpersonal skills and lead a happy personal life, and also to find quick tips for success at workplace, many people take succour in self-help books. Besides books by new-age writers, stories from the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagvad Gita also do the rounds.

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Ever had a ‘Good Tuesday’?

Caught in the middle of a monsoon viral and visiting relatives, I was way behind my schedule for reviewing Laura Vanderkam’s 168 Hours. My deadline was looming large. I was stressed.

168 Hours
Laura Vanderkam
Portfolio, $19.99

But by the time I finished reading the book I had not only recovered from the viral and made peace with a grumbling kin, but also managed to overcome a creative block, caught up on my French lessons and was still left with sufficient time to write this piece. I was quite happy.

The first thing Vanderkam, also the author of Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues, says in 168 Hours is that we have more time than we think.

To be honest, for a long time I was scared to open 168 Hours. It was probably another one of those self-improvement books that insist on a strict time-table, something I have been averse to since school days. But Vanderkam doesn’t take the conventional line, though she does insist on keeping a log book on how you spend your day.

Full review here Deccan Chronicle

All in 90 days

Corporate consultant Rekha Shetty's book suggests steps to transform your business.

‘Innovate – 90 Days to Transform Your Business' by Dr. Rekha Shetty, corporate consultant and founder of Mindspower, is a business self-help book, one that promises to introduce the ‘culture of innovation' to your company through a series of steps in, obviously, 90 days.

Shetty's credentials are certainly impressive — she's been in the corporate innovation business for 25 years and has a number of interesting case studies to her credit.

However, the launch of the book at Landmark, which promised a panel discussion on the subject, ended up as a series of lengthy speeches by the executives on the panel and less of a discussion. The audience interaction was cut short to just two questions and one comment for lack of time.

Still, the audience was given some insight into why constant corporate innovation was so essential, with ringing endorsements on how effective Shetty's toolkit had been when applied practically in the past.

Full report here Hindu

Connecting With 'Connect the Dots,'

The author of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish met success with her debut book and is raring to go with her second. She is all set to receive feedback on her second release that speaks about passionate dreamers; people from different walks of life who strike gold with entrepreneurship.Rashmi Bansal spoke exclusively to Infibeam.Com on her latest release Connect the Dots. This is what she had to say:

Connect the Dots is a sequel of sorts to your first book, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. We know writers hate this question, but would like to know which one you enjoyed more when writing?
- I enjoyed writing Connect the Dots more, because the profiles of the people in this book is very different from Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. I met people doing diverse businesses - from making cheese to political market research. I even travelled to Patna - which was an adventure.

Because I enjoyed writing this book so much, I am sure people will enjoy reading it! To be honest, I think 'Connect the Dots' will be appreciated more, because it will touch the average person. The mediocre guy or girl, who is unsure of his/her future would definitely identify with this book. Everyone in the book has been in their shoes and found their own path.

Full interview here Infibeam

More than just soup

Raksha Bharadia, author of the Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series, talks about ideas, books and aspiring writers

This is probably the best time for the publishing industry in India and aspiring writers across the country are putting their pen and thoughts to paper. Somewhere along the process, budding writers find themselves battling writer's block. All that's required, in many cases, is a gentle push and encouraging words. Author Raksha Bharadia has been doing that for sometime now, addressing workshops across India. The author of the Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series was in Hyderabad recently to talk to professionals from different industries, bound by a common interest in writing.

“Everyone has stories to share and I try to get the block out of their mind by giving pointers and writing exercises,” says Raksha. The vivacious author is being flooded with mails and texts with people contributing to her Chicken Soup series. “I get novels, poems and short stories. Poems have become a lot popular these days,” she says, pushing back her permed mane. The workshop was organised by Live More, an organisation that facilitates people to get in touch with their creative side.

A reason to stay away from self help books!

A sociologist from the University of Huddersfield has revealed that reading self help books can help convince women that they were victims of childhood sexual abuse even if they have no memory of it.

According to Jo Woodiwiss, after reading the self-help books women could come to believe that that they had blocked the memories from their minds.

Many books offered checklists of symptoms of past abuse.

"These checklists are so wide that a significant number of the questions could be checked by all of us,so when women talk about having recovered memories they are not necessarily talking about recovering a concrete memory of being sexually abused, they are often talking about identifying symptoms which they interpret as evidence of sexual abuse in childhood," telegraph.co.uk quoted Woodiwiss as saying.

Full report here Times of India

Writing about a better life

Pune's 22-year-old Chitra Lele has penned a self-help book to motivate people of her age

Most often, it is people with wisdom earned over a lifetime who decide to share it with the world by penning a self-help book. However, Pune-based Chitra Lele has recently come out with The 6 Spheres of Life: Unlocking the Door to Success and Happiness at the tender age of 22.

Record-setter
The book, published by Atlantic Publishers, has a Foreword written by Tim Connor, bestselling author of over 70 titles in the motivational genre of books. He writes: “The book you are now holding can have a galvanising and positive impact on your life... It is a wonderful tool to help you chart your progress and maintain your course... It is books and counsel like Chitra's that enables me to discover what really matters in life both now and in the future... Thank you Chitra for sharing your wisdom with the world. When the world has more people like you, it will be a better place.”

Chitra has appreciation pouring in from all over the world. “I have received more than 70 plus Letters of Commendation from world leaders and world organisations for my book,” she says, “namely, the President of India, Ireland, Croatia and so on.” In fact, she has two entries in the 2010 edition of the Limca Book of Records: one for the maximum number of appreciation responses from world leaders and the other for being the first Indian to receive ‘The Peace Maker Award' from the Peace Writers Organisation (USA) for her peace-driven writing.

Full report here Hindu