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When it comes to getting ahead in life, who we know is as important as what we do. How do you draw people to you? Impress the powerful? Make an impact and extend your circle of acquaintances? Cultivate influential friends? Suhel Seth, a man who knows almost everyone there is to know in the country, brings you the ultimate guide to social success. From the secret to throwing a successful party to the benefits of befriending the less important half of a couple, he gives you practical advice and strategies to become a successful networker. Inspiring, provocative, and wise, Get to the Top is the ultimate book about wielding soft power.
This is a small book of life's big and not-so-big lessons. Written from the heart, these nuggets of personal insights will resonate with just about anyone who has experienced and questioned universal conundrums such as marriage, love, failure, parenting, passion, ambition, or money. A relook at everyday wisdom and learning that we all very often take for granted. "An extravagant wealth of profound reflections sparingly expressed" - Sir Martin Sorrell "A lyrical guide to life - accessible, uncensored, and honest. If only we all thought so clearly." - Fatima Bhutto " This is free verse from a free mind, liberated by indifference to conventional rewards and knitted to values and emotions that make life such a unique arc between the accident of birth and the certainty of death" - MJ Akbar "The stuff every parent would love to tell his children" - Tarun Tejpal "I have known Swapan ever since he was born. He is a compelling advertising writer with unique consumer insights. In this book, he presents some unique insights into life. This book is so very Swapan. He leads life by his words, and he leads it with his wonderfully grounded wife and my two adorable nephews." - Suhel Seth
A ship carrying 2 containers worth Rs.5000 crores in 500- and 1000-rupee notes, docks in the dark of night at Kochi. The money is quickly distributed to members of a minority community using a network of 100 Chartered accountants. The bulk of the money finds its way back into fake firms, shell corporations and charities with the sole aim of destabilizing the country.A DIABOLICAL PLAN BY THE FREEDOM PARTY TO WEAKEN INDIAGreedy politicians of the Freedom Party want to ensure that the opposition can never come to power. Pander to the largest minority, enrich them beyond their expectations and ensure they will be with the party. To this end, a plan is hatched to print high denomination money and...
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF VIVEKANANDA TO YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE Are you weighed down by societal expectations, family pressure or the need for digital validation? Vivekananda will help lighten that burden so that you care a little less about the opinions of others. Are you struggling with your work – or your workplace – despite no obvious deficit of skill? Vivekananda will help you redefine how to measure your own success or failure. Does death – your own, or of those closest to you – frighten you? Vivekananda will teach you how to cope with grief and loss, and be the support your loved ones need in trying times. Anecdotal and thought-provoking, The Vivekananda Handbook for Everyday Living unravels the wisdom of Swami Vivekananda's teachings to guide you through your life, whether at home or at the office.
In Mantras for Success, India's finest CEOs and business leaders tell you what it takes to be successful. They take you to the heart of their enormous businesses and tell you how they built these corporations and grew them to their present standards of excellence. These icons of business will show you how to find the keys to greatness, unlock the secrets of their ability to innovate, break the conventions, overcome challenges and generate strategies.
‘Your best day is today. Not tomorrow, nor day after.’ The Covid-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the twenty-first century. It caught humankind like a deer in the headlights. All across the globe, people were unprepared to face this disease head-on. Apart from enduring the impact of the socio-economic and political crisis, we had to deal with the consequences of staying inside our homes without knowing what the future held for us. The severity of this disease forced us all to become homebodies. This phase has reminded us that we must strive to find pleasure in life’s simplicity. It has also taught us the significance of the smallest of things we a...
Portraits of Power is not just an autobiography of a man, who for several decades has played an active role in India's march towards becoming a formidable economy; it is indeed, on multiple levels, a book that profiles myriad institutions that work in harmony to make things happen. And in everything that N.K. Singh has done, so in this book too, there is both incisive clarity and insightful anecdotal heft.
Compilation of interviews and columns by the chief executive of an advertizing company.
Have you ever suffered from anxiety when having to talk to new people? How often have you come up against that deadly terror – the awkward silence? How many of us struggle with that basic problem: what do I say next? Conversations are the life of a good party, and great conversations are the sign of a truly successful party, but not everyone is blessed with the gift of the gab. Thankfully, Suhel Seth, talented talker, has some quick and easy pointers on how to cultivate the art of talking for social and professional success. From highlighting the importance of having and expressing opinions to knowing when not to express one, from walking that thin line between taking a stand and being overly aggressive to effectively handling arguments, Seth has advice – and a lot of wit – for it all.
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