Anil Maheshwari

Nice compelling story of yin Yang of life and relationships

Revisado: 10-01-23

Nice informative story cutting across generations and classes and locales. Well performed by the narrator. Well done.

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Amazing message and presentation

Revisado: 02-18-23

This book is a definitive wake-up call to the whole world. It brings together experts and leading voices from a wide range of domains to present a striking image of the planet bring in peril. Everyone needs to recognize the crisis that we are in, and then do the utmost to help. Those of us that are in leadership positions and in rich countries need to do more.

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Great and unique story of a financially successful recluse mathematician

Revisado: 05-04-20

This is an interesting and informative book about a recluse mathematics professor getting into the financial trading business and becoming worth more than 20 billion dollars. The story evokes jealousy, envy, respect and at some level a sense of futility of this business. These people keep on making more money because that is all they know how to do, and because they have lost all moral connection between their algorithmic stock trading and the impact on millions of people working in the companies whose stocks they trade. One of his senior associates Mercer used his algorithmic trading based riches to help elect Trump through a distorted view of politics. I am glad to have gone through this book and am wiser for how the markets are now almost fully automated and manipulated without any concern for public welfare. Adam Smith would be turning in his grave. As a data scientist though, I find fascinating their obsession with more and more data to derive the slightest advantage at the fastest speed. Recommended reading.

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Great book full of positive stories

Revisado: 03-19-20

A healing organization is that which cares about people. A good organization should balance thr dominating masculine influence with the feminine caring tendency, along with the child’s playfulness instinct and thr grandparent’s mature wisdom. Theory of Moral Sentiments should be imbibed as much as the Wealth of Natikns. This book presents many case studies that one can do great by being good. It surprisingly breaks away from the financial success model of the popular bookFrom Good to Great by Jim Collins. Do no Harm. Lead with Love. These are some key principles for leading a healing organization.

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Nice book with good insights

Revisado: 03-17-20

Very sincere leadership lessons for the new age of smart machines. A new social contract is needed to make the best use of the new opportunities afforded by the emerging technologies of Cloud, AI, and quantum computing.

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Great book on Mind and the Times of an exceptionally accomplished person

Revisado: 03-16-20

I finished listening to Rajat Gupta’s memoir ‘Mind without Fear’ in just two sessions. It is a compelling story. He had the good luck to be the right person in the right place to become first non (white) American managing director of MicKinsey & Co, when the firm was ripe to go global. He was the wrong guy at the wrong time when he entered the financial markets with the wrong guy, and got the wrong overzealous prosecutor thus getting jailed for two years. He draws inspiration from his father who was an ICS officer but resigned Gandhiji’s call for freedom and was jailed and beaten mercilessly with permanent damage. He also draws inspiration from Rabindranath Tagore, whose beautiful poetry threads the book and gives it the title of Mind without Fear. He also draws solace from his strong family and the many friends who stood with him and believed his story. He however deeply regrets not taking the stand and testifying in his own trial, as he received overwhelming advice from his lawyers and his family that allowing the prosecutor to question him directly will be too risky. At the end of it all, he comes out of the ordeal with his head held high, without much bitterness for those who deserted him including the McKinsey firm who dismissed him summarily and took his name off their alumni list.

I believe Rajat Gupta’s story, as I have done over the years. He is a fellow IITD alumnus ten years my senior. I met him at Pan-IIT meets in 2007 and 2009. He looked handsome and seemed very honest and a good listener. I do remember some of the stories of the next few years as the attorney Preet Bharara with political ambitions set his sights on a fellow successful Indian. There was a story in the Indian press about Preet Bharara and Dr Sanjay Gupta, whose moms knew each other from India, about who is doing better in the US. I recall a feeling of a certain revulsion at that approach to achieving success by beating down an iconic fellow Indian. Some of my well-meaning friends however felt at that time that greed and power had gotten the better of Rajat Gupta.

Rajat Gupta has done much good work including seting up Indian School of Business and the Public Health Foundation of India. He also started the Global Fund against three major diseases. These inspirational stories are laid out in great detail in the book. That alone makes the book worthy of attention. What the book does not tell is that none other than Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys, compared Rajat Gupta with Jawaharlal Nehru for having started two world class organizations in India. I also salute Rajat for his great work. May God grant him strength to continue his good work. He wants to work on the American penal system which he observed from the inside and found deeply lacking. He should write a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, the book that he read during his incarceration and which helped him come out stronger, with malice towards none and with his head held high.

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Good humble story about how to be creative

Revisado: 04-18-19

Good structure, content, and stories.
I liked the Nancy's Special Foods story.
I also liked the idea of the invention cycle.

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