Monday, August 22, 2011

The Leader Who Had No Title

Name:  The Leader Who Had No Title
Author: Robin Sharma

This is one of the most amazing books I have read till now in my life. A must read for everyone who wants to know how to treat every second as an opportunity. Who wants to be a leader for his lifetime, who wants to educate the community how every one can make a difference to their life and to the society.







In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn:
  1. How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position
  2. A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change
  3. The real secrets of intense innovation
  4. An instant strategy to build a great team and become a "merchant of wow" with your customers
  5. Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field
  6. Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life
Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life--and the world around you--in the process.

The book's approach is very easy to follow, through a gripping sequence of events. Below is the video which will be well enough to motivate you. This book is recommended to everyone for sure. I am sure many cases listed are what we face everyday, and the book suggests who one can overcome them and moreover how you can learn from them.
Cheers!



Saturday, August 13, 2011

Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World

Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World
by Alex Rutherford

I am not as thrilled and contended as I was after rreading the first two parts of this series. This book is on Akbar, the most powerful and longer ruling mughal in Tumr dynasty. But surprisingly the author has dedicated the least pages for him. In the same book more than half life of Jehanghir (Salim) and then of Khusrau is also there.

Easily 2 books could have been dedicated to Akbar. Many things has is private courtroom, various battles, relation with first rajput wife, din-e-elahi, his nocturnal country visits etc, much could have been explored.

On the positive side the book still has the amazing narration capability of the author and very nice fictionalization of the history

Friday, July 8, 2011

Keep your enemies close, and your sons closer...Empire of the Moghul, Ruler of the World


Just bought the third book of this series by Alex Rutherford. The way he writes and is covering the entire Moghul dynasty is amazing indeed. Some details on Akbar:

The story of the third great Moghul Emperor, Akbar, leader of a triumphant dynasty which contained the seeds of its own destruction.

Akbar, ruler of a sixth of the world's people, colossally rich and utterly ruthless, was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, but infinitely more powerful. His reign began in bloodshed when he strangled his treacherous 'milk-brother', but it ended in glory.

Akbar extended his rule over much of Asia, skillfully commanding tens of thousands of men, elephants and innovative technology, yet despite the unimaginable bloodshed which resulted his empire was based on universal religious tolerance.

However, Akbar's homelife was more complicated. He defied family, nobles and mullahs to marry a beautiful Rajput princess, whose people he had conquered; but she hated Akbar and turned Salim, his eldest son, against him. What's more, as any Moghul prince could inherit his father's crown and become Emperor, his sons were brought up to be intensely competitive and suspicious of each other: to see each other as rivals for the greatest prize of all. And, as Salim grew to manhood, the relationship between father and son became tainted by rebellion and competition to be the greatest Moghul of them all.