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Books I Want to Read in 2010: Life Lessons

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I was following a conversation started by Eric Garner on LinkedIn. The topic question: On a recent TV programme, Warren Buffet said that the book that had most changed his life was Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It certainly shows as Warren Buffet is great at influencing people to feel good about themselves.

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Organizations as Communities - Part 1

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Viewing an organization through the lens of a machine and people as cogs worked when the world was predictable, change happened very slowly, lessons of yesterday became best practices of today, and assembly line production ruled the day. Gone is that era. The 90’s brought the term VUCA into our consciousness.

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Malcolm Gladwell: All about Spaghetti Sauce and Dosas

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But they have tapped into the essential lessons on choice and on delivering customer delight--stuff that we pay lakhs to learn in MBA schools. Now, I am certain none of these dosawallas have heard Gladwell speak or know about the history of Howard and the Spaghetti sauce.

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Book Review: Don't Hire the Best

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While it focuses on guiding organizations to select the right people at the top, the lessons can be applied to recruiting, coaching, developmental feedback and team building. In his trademark style of simple writing (i.e., The thrust of his book is on, as the title says, “don’t hire the best”.

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Learned vs. Learners

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Ruth Clark, in the book, describes 7 lessons learned about experts: 1. I am talking about knowledge work here. Not about playing the guitar or becoming a champion chess player. Those kinds of expertise will still need 10,000 hours of practice. Expertise requires extensive practice 2. Expertise is domain specific 3.

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#SHRMI14 - Post 1: Ashok Alexander – Leadership Lessons from the Field

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This India taught him and through him us, lessons in life and leadership that we don’t acquire in the most elite of B-Schools. He crystallized the leadership lessons in a few key phrases: “Take a leap of faith. Have audacious dreams. Have courage. Face problems with all the humility we can summon.”

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Umesh

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Umesh''s Story and Lessons I Learned He joined Mother Earth about 7 years back as an SHG member. "How was the experience," I asked him. "I I learned a tremendous amount," he said. Much more than in school." What he went on to say after that completely blew my mind.