Daily Archives: November 23, 2005
Book Review: They Just Don’t Get it
First, the disclaimer: I got a mail from Leslie Yerkes’ assistant, Stephen, asking me if I would be interested in reviewing a book on Change and Communication. I said that I would, and that’s how a copy of They Just Don’t Get It! came into my hands.
The book is written in the newly popular style of “business fable” (with lots of pictures) and would last a fast reader less than 30 minutes.
The premise of the book is simple: Sometimes when you are trying to influence people with your views, and they don’t seem to get it, maybe the problem is not with them, maybe the issue is with you.
Positioned A-type personalities, who have little time with theory Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin make a story of an advertising executive who learns to loosen up and get her team’s inputs into ideas to make it a richer idea.
No rocket science here, just one concept that’s focussed on here.
People who are a little more conceptual and theoretical (like me) would be disappointed, but I guess business executives these days seem to prefer books like these.
Getting Horny
Not what you might be thinking about.
Soumitra has a great post on how Indian drivers honk !
On Lucknow
Dilip D’Souza’s brilliant post on his visit to Lucknow. It made me really wistful about my hometown !
My post on Indibloggies
On “hum Blogistani“
I can’t cross post it…but here is an excerpt:
Although I am a blogger on business and management issues, I think the day is still very, very far away that big Indian business will start blogging. May be more professional services firms, specially the small and medium ones that do not have the money power to mass advertise their expertise and whose clients have access to the net would start blogging to showcase their expertise. But often, they lack the technical expertise to blog. So, all you technical blogging gurus, there might be a big business proposition for you. Mid sized advertising, law, architecture, real estate, market research, designers, consulting, training, recruitment firms are all potential clients.
and then this bit:
I am also hopeful that translation services on the net will become a lot more ubiquitous and we’ll be able to read any content on the net in the language of our choice – that would really fuel the growth of social and business blogging. Right now, the non-English blogosphere is a dark web to us in India, while I feel we have more in common with the Persian or Filipino blogosphere than the US blogosphere. The growth of such translation interface/service would also trigger a boom in the growth of Indian blogosphere.
BS Manjunath passes away – murdered by corrupt petrol pump owners
Gaurav Sabnis remembers his friend from IIML, Manjunath who did not bow down before the dictates of the petrol pump mafia.
We’ll mourn your passing away Manjunath, from a fellow Lucknow lover !
The Indian Express article, the Telegraph article. Amit Verma blogs about it here. Rashmi Bansal calls him a Soldier of Conscience.
