Since you’re planning on doing your MBA, you need to be
well read, and not just on current affairs. In this section, we offer
you some choices of books that will broaden your perspective, and you
will find that you will never be at a loss in a discussion!
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First published in 1981, The One
Minute Manager took the corporate world by storm with the simple
techniques it taught to increase productivity, job satisfaction and
personal prosperity. The book is a concise, easily read story about a
young man searching for an effective manager. His search takes across
the world, but he finds only Autocratic Managers and Democratic
Managers, both of whom focus either on results or on people. Finally,
he comes across an Effective Manager, who manages themselves and the
people so that both the organisation and its employees benefit from
their presence. The One Minute Manager is a perfectly straightforward book, simple and easy to read, but propounding profound ideas in three steps: Goal Setting, Praising and Reprimanding. An absolute must read for all future managers. |
| Although it is the writing of a young
woman in her 20s, The Story of My Life is a passionate reading
experience that describes the life of a woman whose hearing and sight
are impaired. The book goes on to describe the hardships that she had
to go through because of her disabilities, and her achievements, which
then seem even more monumental. Hardly unsurprisingly, there is not a
trace of self-pity throughout the book, although Keller does confess to
the occasional bout of frustration. The Story of My Life is a brilliant book written quite eloquently by one of the most famous women in history, someone who changed the world for the better through her life and work. Future managers will no doubt get a lot of food for thought while reading the book. |
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Although not Dan Brown’s first
thriller, or even the first book featuring fictional Harvard
symbologist Robert Langdon, The Da Vinci Code remains by far the most
famous of the author’s works across the world. The book revolves around
the ultra-secret society of the Priory of Sion, which guards one of
the world’s biggest secret – the location of the Holy Grail – and the
attempts of the Church of Christianity to find and destroy it. In one
night, the Priory’s top members are killed, and it falls to Langdon and
cryptologist Sophie Neveu to decipher the secret and protect it from
the wrong hands. The most important feature of The Da Vinci Code is that it builds the story around actual, historical facts, dating back to the time of the Knights Templars. The book is gripping from page one, and takes the reader through a whirlwind rush to the startling ending. Definitely a must read. |
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