हम कॉर्पोरेट जीवन में जिस ढंग से काम करते हैं, उन्हीं में छुपे होते हैं कई राज़। इनमें जो कारगर होते हैं वह गूढ़ आँकड़ों या गोपनीय रणनीतियों से जुड़े दस्तावेज़ नहीं, बल्कि उदारता, हास-परिहास, एक अच्छी फ़िल्टर कॉफ़ी या सिर-खपाऊ मीटिंग के बाद तीस मिनट के मी टाइम जैसे सरल व मानवीय पहलू हैं।
यह पुस्तक आकर्षक और कारगर टिप्स का ऐसा संकलन है, जो आपको अपने ऑफ़िस में और अधिक सफल होने में मदद कर सकती हैं। उस पर बोनस जैसे ये टिप्स आपको थोड़ी राहत भी दे सकती हैं। इसमें, आपको मज़ेदार और प्रासंगिक विषयों की विविधता मिलेगी, जिनमें काम के दौरान अपनी मेज़ को व्यवस्थित करने, थकान भगाने के सर्वोत्तम तरीके, पावर ऑफ लिस्निंग, नेकी-उदारता क्यों की जाए और आपके सहकर्मी जिस तरीके से कुकीज़ खाते हैं, आप उनसे क्या-कुछ सीख सकते हैं, जैसे विषय शामिल हैं।
‘कॉरपोरेट गलियारों में काम करने के छोटे-छोटे लेकिन कमाल के तरीके’ –सुपर्णा मित्रा, सीईओ, वॉचेस एंड वियरेबल्स, टाइटन कंपनी लिमिटेड
Archives: Books
What it Takes to be Free Hindi / Kaise Bharen Azadi Ki Udaan / कैसे भरें आज़ादी की उड़ान
आप जो चाहें कर सकते हैं। अपने पसंदीदा लोगों के साथ समय बिता सकते हैं और अपने पसंदीदा काम को करियर भी बना सकते हैं। यह सब सपने जैसा तो लगता है लेकिन असंभव नहीं है।
उन्मुक्त जीवन की बहुत बड़ी कीमत होती है। यह मुश्किल तो है, लेकिन असंभव नहीं है। लेकिन यदि आप भी इसकी कीमत अदा करने के लिए तैयार हैं तो आप भी उन्मुक्त हो सकते हैं।इस पुस्तक में आपको जीवन पर नियंत्रण रखने और सही मायने में उन्मुक्त जीवन जीने के गुर बताए गए हैं। यह आसान नहीं लेकिन आप अपने परिश्रम से असंभव को संभव कर दिखा सकते हैं।
उन्मुक्तता यानी दूसरों को कोई कष्ट पहुँचाए बिना मनचाही आज़ादी का अर्थ होता है अपनी शर्तों पर ज़िंदगी जीना। इस किताब का उद्देश्य ही आपको यह अर्जित करने में मदद करना है, जैसा कि आप चाहते हैं, वैसा लक्ष्य हासिल कर सकें।
Meditations (Hindi)/मेडिटेशन्स
मेडिटेशन्स में मार्कस ने मानव चेतना के गहराईयों को छूने की यात्रा का वर्णन किया है। यह पुस्तक ध्यान और आत्मज्ञान के महत्त्व को समझाती है, जिससे आप अपने जीवन को शांति, स्थिरता और संतुलन के साथ जी सकते हैं। इसमें विभिन्न ध्यान तकनीकों का विस्तृत वर्णन है, जो मानसिक स्वास्थ्य को सुधारने में मदद कर सकते हैं।
A Slight Angle
In the volatile India of the 1920s, with its many political and technological crosscurrents, we encounter a group of young people in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Banaras, discovering new ways to live. Fiery Sheela, once a Gandhian, charts her own path; clever Kanta and orphaned Hemlata make the most of their limited resources; gentle and gifted Sharad and Abhik grapple with forbidden desire and redefine older arts; Robin the jazz musician and Rita the Jewish movie star construct urban pleasures. Hindi writers Mahadevi and Ugra make cameo appearances.
The Robert Langdon Collection: 5 Books Boxset (Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin)
From the multi-million bestselling phenomenon Dan Brown, a 5 book-boxset starring the one and only Harvard professor Robert Langdon.
Titles in this boxset:
ANGELS AND DEMONS (BOOK 1)
A world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. In a breathtaking race against time, Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible – the Illuminati.
THE DA VINCI CODE (BOOK 2)
Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.
THE LOST SYMBOL (BOOK 3)
Robert Langdon believes he is in Washington to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. When Langdon’s mentor, Peter Solomon is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend’s life is to accept this mysterious summons.
INFERNO (BOOK 4)
Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed in Florence with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city.
ORIGIN (BOOK 5)
Robert Langdon arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal.
AI Snake Oil
From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn’t, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don’t work, and probably never will.
While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it’s being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can’t fix social media, why AI isn’t an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.
By revealing AI’s limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.
Wonder: Special Hardback Edition with Sprayed Edges
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For the first time ever, read the award-winning, multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is WONDER in this brand new-special hardback edition, with beautiful sprayed edges.
Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face–who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Now a major motion picture.
‘My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.’
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things – eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren’t stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school – and he’s dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted – but can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?
A funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut – and a true global phenomenon – to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” –indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you’re going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, “The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood.”
And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to understand and yearning to be understood.
Billy and the Epic Escape
Share the adventure of a lifetime in this incredible sequel to Jamie Oliver’s bestselling children’s debut, Billy and the Giant Adventure!
Billy and his best friends Anna, Jimmy and Andy are looking forward to a summer exploring Waterfall Woods, discovering more about the magical creatures who live there and the Rhythm of nature that keeps their world, and ours, in balance.
Then the woods come under attack from a mysterious red lady, forcing the sprites and brothers Wilfred and BiIfred into hiding, and the gang rush to the rescue!
But what does the red lady really want? Could she be connected to Bilfred’s disappearance all those years ago? And, if so, how is it possible she looks exactly the same decades later. . .
Can Billy and his friends uncover the truth and stop the red lady’s plans, before the Rhythm is put in danger once again?
Fantastical fun – full of magical creatures, epic feasts and brilliant inventions
Page-turning adventure – short chapters bursting with action to keep readers hooked
Amazing illustrations – bursting with illustrations from Mónica Armiño to bring the story to life
Accessible and engaging – designed with dyslexia-friendly font and clear spacing
Cauldron, Sword and Victory
In Cauldron, Sword and Victory, author Sarbpreet Singh takes the reader on a journey through the fiery crucible in which the character of the Sikhs was forged. Seers and mystics, conquerors and kings rub shoulders in this heady tale of history and politics, embarking on never-ending quests for land, power and glory. Singh’s first volume on Sikh history told the story of the venerated Sikh Gurus. Starting with the rebellion of Banda Singh Bahadur, he now turns his attention to Nawab Kapur Singh and his cohort of doughty Sikh chiefs who became the masters of Punjab as the weakened Mughals of Delhi clashed with the powerful Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan. Bringing these swashbuckling characters to life in a manner most vivid and compelling, Singh transports us to the eighteenth-century Indian subcontinent as the Sikh chiefs engage with the British, the Marathas, the Jats and the Rohillas, sometimes as allies and sometimes as adversaries.
Based on a unique mix of eyewitness accounts, secondary sources as well as translations from Braj and Punjabi poetry, Singh’s narrative is both erudite and engaging—a true saga of resilience, faith and power.