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Akbarnama on Pakistan
Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan
By M.J. Akbar
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 499 Rasheeda BhagatFor reasons obvious enough, M.J. Akbar’s Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan (Harper Collins) is unlikely to get the warm reception Jaswant Singh’s book on M.A. Jinnah got its author in Pakistan.
Though it’s a great narration and analyses of events […]
Finance & Accounting
Suppose 32 per cent of the households in a certain district are classified as ‘poor.’ If you randomly pick ten ...
Fiscal policy and fiscal instruments are crucial to the achievement of the goal of ‘decent' employment, writes K. P. ...
Information Technology
Game for innovation
D. Murali
At the time of writing, more than a thousand news articles are about Nintendo 3DS, to be launched in March, at a sub-$250-dollar price. With the handheld, you can play 3-D games, without the need for glasses, and take 3-D pictures, reports state.
A section on 3DS in ‘Playing to Wiin: Nintendo and the […]
Lessons from Tata Nano
One of the many stories in Nanovation: How a little car can teach the world to think big by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg, and Dain Dunston (www.penguinbooksindia.com) is about Pixar, widely known for its successful animated feature films. What is not common knowledge, however, is that once upon a time all that the company […]
Management & Strategy
Liberate individual goals within a boundary
Coaching is gaining popularity as a critical tool for organisational development and improved business results, but what forward-looking enterprises foster is ‘a culture of coaching,’ notes Sangeeth Varghese in Open Source Leader: The future of organizations and leadership (Penguin).
The author takes the example of Dave Whatmore who coached Bangladesh from 2003 to 2007, a team […]
Treasure your fans
The Path
Konosuke Matsushita Even when the prices may be the same, people will naturally patronise the shop that takes good care of its customers and is thoughtful and conscientious about its services or merchandise, says Konosuke Matsushita in The Path (www.tatamcgrawhill.com).
Respect the customer
Few customers will return to an establishment where they get little attention and […]