Posts from the leadership category.
I still remember the feeling of finishing the first few chapters of Don’t Be That Donkey: A Modern Guide to Outsmarting the Obstacles in Your Way by Amuraj Srinath. I closed the Kindle for a moment, leaned back, and smiled a little — not because the book was comforting, but because it was brutally honest.Some books try to motivate you.This one tries to wake you up.The title itself feels playful at...
The first thing that came to my mind while reading Self-Made Maverick by Dr. Reza Zahedi was a memory from a basketball court many years ago.I was already past the age when most players begin slowing down. Yet there I was, tying my shoelaces before a state tournament, hearing the usual whispers: Why continue? Why not step aside?Sometimes the world quietly hands you a script about how things are su...
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a conference room when everyone knows the best idea won’t win.It’s not loud. It doesn’t argue. It simply adjusts itself to power.That quiet tension is the emotional undercurrent of Breaking Politics, Empowering Experts by Roshan Bhondekar and Vaibhav Deshpande — a book that doesn’t scream about corporate politics but studies it the way a chess...
The “aha” moments in life rarely arrive with fireworks. They arrive quietly — in the pause after a meeting, in the silence after a mistake, in the thought you can’t shake off. That quiet space is where A-HA! : The more you reflect, The more you become! by Sorbojeet Chatterjee operates.From the very first pages, I sensed this wasn’t trying to be “another self-help book.” In fact, it almost resists ...
There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes from building something without excess. Not the loud confidence of billion-dollar funding rounds or glossy launch events — but the quiet certainty of knowing every screw, every line of code, every decision had to justify its existence.LeanSpark feels like that kind of confidence.I began reading it at a time when every startup headline seemed to sc...
I began Madam Commissioner expecting a memoir about power, postings, and protocol. What I did not expect was how quietly it would sit with me afterward — like the weight of a khaki uniform folded neatly on a chair, still warm from long use. This is not a book that shouts. It stands. Firmly. And asks you, without drama, to look at what integrity costs.Meeran Chadha Borwankar’s life has been written...
I remember finishing this book on an ordinary afternoon — and feeling unexpectedly still.Not the triumphant stillness of motivation, but the quieter kind. The kind that comes when someone has spoken honestly enough that your defences don’t know where to stand anymore. I was seated, book resting face-down, noticing my shoulders had dropped. As if something inside me had been allowed to exhale.Limit...
The fatigue arrived before the admiration did.Not physical tiredness — something deeper. The kind that settles in the shoulders when you realize how long power has been carried, argued over, bent, and bruised.I finished the book late at night. The house had already decided to sleep. I stayed back, sitting upright longer than needed, aware of a quiet inside me that hadn’t been there before. Not sti...
Have you ever sat in a beautifully lit café, sipping a hot cappuccino, watching plates fly out of the kitchen, servers glide between tables, and thought — How hard can it really be to run a restaurant?I have. More times than I can count.And every time, I’ve wildly underestimated the answer.Because from the customer’s side of the counter, everything looks effortless — the clink of cutlery, the arom...
It begins with a gunshot — not one fired in the pages, but the echo of a life lived on the edge of it. As I turned the first few pages of The Enforcer, I felt as though I had stepped into the heart of India’s most volatile battleground — Uttar Pradesh — where the line between justice and survival often blurs, and one man in uniform dares to walk that trembling line every single day.Written by Anir...
