Month: May 2012

Authors:  Clayton M. Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, William Oncken Jr., Donald L. Wass, Diane L. Coutu, Tony Schwartz, Catherine McCarthy, Edward M. Hallowell, Stewart D. Friedman, Sumantra Ghoshal, Heike Bruch, Robert E. Quinn, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Golean, Richard Boyatzis and Annnie McKee. Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 198 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram This book is part of a series of books on important as aspects of management published by the Harvard Business Review Press. You probably have read elsewhere that managing yourself is key to managing others, which in turn is critical to building a...

Book Review: Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology – Third Edition, with CD-ROM Author:  Donald C. Rizzo, PhD. Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning – 529 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book by Donald C. Rizzo PhD is very well organized with 19 self-contained chapters. The first five chapters are on: the human body in general, body chemistry, cell structure, cellular metabolism, and tissues. The next 14 chapters each focus on a particular system of the body. Recalling my own course in high school of human anatomy and physiology, there were two body systems not included in the textbook we...

Author: Michael Ellsberg Publisher: Penguin Portfolio – 258 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram This book by Michael Ellsberg, who himself confesses that he is not a millionaire (at least not yet) is based on interviews of numerous millionaires who don’t have college degrees. In the process of having discussions with them, Ellsberg learned that most if not all of them attribute their success to learning from doing, rather than from schooling. We’ve often heard that the “school of hard knocks” is the best teacher. To those millionaires, one of the most important lessons they’ve learned, Ellsberg writes, is...