Tag: Bookstrapping

Bookstrapping: Attention Span by Dr Gloria Mark

The book Attention Span by Dr Mark has interesting suggestions on how we can take control of our attention and find more success in our careers, says our reviewer. (Image: Amazon)

In the book, Attention Span, Dr Mark delves into the newly celebrated concept of ‘kinetic attention.’ She introduces a more balanced understanding of the rhythm between deep focus and less focused states, which may actually serve to make us happier and more productive in the long term. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: Ten books you must reach for in 2023

Our reviewer Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta puts together the ultimate reading list for all the book enthusiasts out there. (Representative Image: Patrick Tomasso via Unsplash)

From ‘A Lucky Man: The Memoirs of a Radio-wala’ by Mark Tully to Rachel Louise Snyder’s ‘Women We Buried, Women We Burned’, here’s your 2023 reading list.

Bookstrapping: A fresh plea for 2023 – Why you must read!

A thousand CEOs have asked me to talk with their teams on the reading habit, as they seek to foster a culture of lifelong learning in their organisations. What we must appreciate is that the benefits of reading are not necessarily intellectual alone. (Representative Image: kazuend via Unsplash)

Now most things worth reading are chargeable even online. Why not pick up a book?

Motilal Oswal Group’s Raamdeo Agrawal: Goodwill takes 25 years to build, but takes 25 minutes to destroy

EGF, and NLU will collaborate on various projects to analyze and discuss contemporary issues of public concern, and their legal implications and dialogue to exchange information contributing to the advancement of the gaming and technology sector.(Representative Image: Shoeib Abolhassani via Unsplash)

At the launch of ’10X your business’ written by JumboKing Foods MD Dheeraj Gupta, we caught up with Gupta and Motilal Oswal Group’s Raamdeo Agarwal to talk about collaborative growth and the power of franchising.

Bookstrapping: 10 must-read books released in 2022

We are specifically focussed on genres such as productivity, efficiency, psychology, science, biography and marketing. And of you missed the news about these books , we hope our column will serve as a reminder. (Representative Image: Amazon, The Morning Books Show)

Its time for that compelling compilation. Our year-end compilation of books is specifically focused on non-fiction and on genres such as productivity, efficiency, psychology, science, biography and marketing.

Bookstrapping: In conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Unstoppable Us

Yuval Noah Harari's key themes have been that society has largely been driven by our species’s capacity to believe in ‘fictions’ - that exist in our collective imaginations. In this two-part interview series, we focus on storytelling for parents and storytelling for the C-suite.

Author of bestselling books like Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari shares his views on everything from smartphones to social media to sugar, in this two-part special series of Storyboard18’s Bookstrapping.

Bookstrapping: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

If Becoming was autobiographical in nature, in The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama is more in the self-help zone. (Image - Amazon)

In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama engages in honest dialogues with readers about fundamental questions about life and everything in between. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5 stars.  

Bookstrapping: The Architect of the New BJP — How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party by Ajay Singh

In this detail oriented book, the author talks about how Narendra Modi would insist on computerisation, regimentation, documentation, and discipline, long before he becomes the Prime Minister of India. So much so, that whenever senior BJP party leaders in the 1980s and 1990s had an insurmountable problem, they would depend on him to manage the situation. (Image: Amazon)

This book is a credible attempt to analyse the work of Narendra Modi before he became Prime Minister, says our reviewer. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

The book is replete with sentences where Matthew Perry lays his heart bare. His narrative is funny much like his character Chandler from the sitcom Friends, says our (Image: Amazon)

This book is for you if you want to know the real story of Chandler, the sitcom character from Friends, who made jokes when he was uncomfortable. Our reviewer picks five things that stood out for her in actor Matthew Perry’s memoir. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5.