Below is the snippets from the book "The Professional" by Subroto Bagchi. It is a wonderful book and a must read for every professional. Read and enjoy!!!

​1. Unsupervised work - should be able to do work without any supervision
2. Do the work correctly - complete justice to the work
3. Ethical - should be ethical - personal phone calls using company phone
4. Integrity - if there are rules - we need to follow the rules, if there are no rules then we need to use our common sense
5. Self aware - we should be self aware
6. Authentic - we should not use someone we don't know as reference
7. If we do not know something we should be quite instead of exposing and getting limelight in all instances- the more you pretend the more naked you become
8. We all have gaps - our main job is to identify the gap and fill it - even if it is to ask you juniors
9. We need to know our future rather than go in a direction it takes us
10. Be self aware - do an exercise - close ur eyes and observe all the sound you hear - we miss out on our own breath that means we are not self aware

​I am back with another notes from a very famous book "Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs" by Carmine Gallo. Its a must read for all out there looking to present well. Below are the notes. The below snippets can be of multiple use:

1. If you have already read the book, you can use the below as a revising tool
2. If you have'n't read the book -> You can very well read the below -> If you like it -> You can purchase the book.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead!!!!!

This post is written by Sandy for us, giving the snippets from the book "Made to Stick" by Chip and Dan Heath. This is just a brief or key points from the book to encourage readers to buy good books, read and get benefited.

• You can either read this for the first time and take back some key points to implement in your life/work.
  
• If you have already this book, this would be a good read to remind what you read long back in just10 minutes.
  
• Or if you are an avid reader and have not read this book yet, read these snippets and if it sounds interesting please go and order your copy right now from flipkart or amazon. :)
  

These snippets are very useful for some lazy readers like me, who like to read mostly in blogs and articles on the internet. :P
In the end it's the takeaway from the article that matters. Understand the concepts by reading the full book, since it explains with apt examples.

This book gives 6 key points to put down your ideas in the best way to your audience and become successful. Improves your communication in corporate as well as personal life.

Read on... If you have any doubts about the book or skeptical before buying it, don't forget to comment your queries below. We'll get Sandy to reply for you. :)

This is a gist of an inspiring TED talk by Simon Sinek. "Why we do what we do?" Read on to get inspired and change the way you work/live...

The following TED talk, given by Simon Sinek, describes how it is that great leaders inspire action, why some people are able to achieve things, when others are not. He explains the brilliant, biologically based “Golden Circle”, a new way of looking at how people approach what they do.  He also discusses the Law of Diffusion of Innovation, and weaves it all together with several brilliantly told examples, from Apple computer, to the Wright Brothers, to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Below is the gist of what he says:

How do you explain why some people are able to achieve things that seem impossible?
How is it that some companies, like Apple, year after year, always seem to lead innovation?
A few years ago I discovered something that changed my life, a pattern that I found in all the great leaders (individuals and companies). They all think in the same way, and it’s the opposite of everybody else. It’s
probably the world’s simplest idea (all I did was codify it). I call it the “Golden Circle”. How – in the center, surrounded by “Why”,surrounded by a larger circle “What”.

Everybody knows “what” they do 100%. Some know how they do it. But very very few people or organizations know WHY they do it. And I don’t mean to make a profit, that’s the result. It’s the “why”, why do you do it, why do you get out of bed in the morning, and why should people care.

Inspired organizations and people all think, act, and communicate from the inside out. 
People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
The Why, How, What model is actually grounded in biology (not psychology). 

If you were to look at a cross section of the brian from top down, you’d see that it corresponds perfectly to the golden circle. Starting at the top, our “newest”(evolutionary) brain, our Homo-Sapien Brain, called our
Neocortex – it’s our what, it’s responsible for all our rational, analytical thought, and language. The middle two section make up our Limbic brains, which is for feelings, trust, and loyalty, it’s also responsible for all human behavior and decision making. It has no capacity for language. In other words, when we communicate from the outside in, yes, people can understand vast amounts of complicated information, features and benefits and facts and figures, it just doesn’t drive behavior. When we communicate from the inside out. we’re talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from. It’s why you can give someone all the facts and figures and they’ll say that they know what all the facts and the details say, but it just doesn’t ‘feel’ right.

Why would they use that verb? Because the part of the brain that controls decision making doesn’t control language. Sometimes we say we’re leading with our heart, or our soul. That’s all happening in your limbic brain.

But if you don’t’ know why you do what you do, then how will you ever get someone to buy into it, and be loyal, or want to be a part of what it is that you do.

After all, the goal is not just to get people to buy that need what you have, but to believe what you believe. The goal is not just to hire people who need a job, but who believe what you believe. If you hire people who just need a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people that believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

When you ask why people fail, they always give you some permutation of the same three things.
1.      Undercapitalized
2.      The wrong people
3.      Unfavorable market conditions
But the Wright Brothers were driven by a cause, by a purpose, by a belief. They believed that if they could figure out this flying machine, it would change the course of the world. Samuel Peirpont Langley was different. He wanted to be rich, and he wanted to be famous - in pursuit of the result as riches. In the
end, the people who believed in the dream, worked with blood and sweat and tears, the others, just for the paycheck.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe. Microsoft sells the “what”, and sometimes the“how”, but Apple sells the “why”.