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You Don't Need a Godfather: Create Your Own Success: Create Your Own Success
What's slit chilies got to do with personal branding Or for that matter a monkey eating ginger with you letting go Or Ireland with success?
Can't make the connect?
'You Don't Need a Godfather' will make these connects and also provide you with no-nonsense, proven methods to navigate and succeed in the complex, and sometimes scary workplace.
All of this in a conversational tone with doses of humor, sarcasm and interesting stories. Add to the mix, seven-year-old Agastya, who brings clarity to our cluttered lives with his childlike utterances. You will find yourself nodding and smiling as you read and realize many of the tales in this book could be cut from your own experiences.
A perfect book to finish in one sitting, this will become your hip-pocket guide to building your career.
Tale of
Section I Make ME Chapter 1: Appa! I Hate Ireland! Reality The BJP Story Chapter 2: Play to Fail Reality Pradeep's Badge of Honor Chapter 3: YIPEE! Nobody is Watching Me Reality Silly Ways to Lose Your Job Section It is Not so Commonsensical Chapter 4: Slit Chilies on the Rocks Reality Brand Dip Test Chapter 5: The Card Collector Reality Social Acceptance Chapter 6: Gone in Sixty Seconds Reality The Ha-Ha After the Ah-Ha Section Making it Happen Chapter 7: Walk Like a Baby Chapter 8: Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full of Bitterness and Busy Weekends Chapter 9: A Twist in the Tale the And Factor Section Staying Sane, Staying Successful Chapter 10: Monkey that Ate Ginger Chapter 11: Managing Monster Inc or R.I.P. Reality What your boss will never tell you ...but you need to know Chapter 12: Success Traps And Back to .. The Beginning
Can't make the connect?
'You Don't Need a Godfather' will make these connects and also provide you with no-nonsense, proven methods to navigate and succeed in the complex, and sometimes scary workplace.
All of this in a conversational tone with doses of humor, sarcasm and interesting stories. Add to the mix, seven-year-old Agastya, who brings clarity to our cluttered lives with his childlike utterances. You will find yourself nodding and smiling as you read and realize many of the tales in this book could be cut from your own experiences.
A perfect book to finish in one sitting, this will become your hip-pocket guide to building your career.
Tale of
Section I Make ME Chapter 1: Appa! I Hate Ireland! Reality The BJP Story Chapter 2: Play to Fail Reality Pradeep's Badge of Honor Chapter 3: YIPEE! Nobody is Watching Me Reality Silly Ways to Lose Your Job Section It is Not so Commonsensical Chapter 4: Slit Chilies on the Rocks Reality Brand Dip Test Chapter 5: The Card Collector Reality Social Acceptance Chapter 6: Gone in Sixty Seconds Reality The Ha-Ha After the Ah-Ha Section Making it Happen Chapter 7: Walk Like a Baby Chapter 8: Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full of Bitterness and Busy Weekends Chapter 9: A Twist in the Tale the And Factor Section Staying Sane, Staying Successful Chapter 10: Monkey that Ate Ginger Chapter 11: Managing Monster Inc or R.I.P. Reality What your boss will never tell you ...but you need to know Chapter 12: Success Traps And Back to .. The Beginning
- GenresSelf HelpNonfiction
122 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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January 29, 2019
The book is like a toolkit for workplace success especially for two categories of people - 1. Those starting on their corporate journey, and 2. Those who are somehow managing to just survive at workplace. The book provides tips, techniques, strategies in a very simple and relatable way. Drawing on humour and light sarcasm, the book manages to do a good job of driving home the point that the key to success is always with us and we just need to grab and make the best of the opportunities which come our way.
January 26, 2023
Good One, but a few ideas are supposed to be implemented at beginning of the carrier or at least the beginning of a new job :) I sometimes feel bored because the essence is clearly visible at the beginning of the chapters.
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July 8, 2012
This book will appeal to both kind of beginners – Those, on their first jobs who are yet to test the school of thoughts they come with, in the real corporate world and those who are just beginning to read books to enhance their quality of work and personal life, no matter in which year of their career, they currently are.
While I prefer to label YDNAG (That rhymes with my last name) as a self help guide rather than a Management Book, I also want to specify – for those who have read Robin Sharma, Shiv Khera, Subroto Bagchi, Anthony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey and the kind, will find this book a reiteration of several aspects they have already learnt however in a much light hearted and easy to remember manner for the readers to draw the learnings either from the title of the chapters, or reality bites or memory bites.
Appa, I hate Ireland and Agastya seemed to have cast significant impact on readers – however the reality bite tagged to that chapter, that had the BJP story stayed with me longer than it should. I was a tad disappointed about the proportion of the book that carried the principles and the sections that discussed the people – My personal choice would be inclusion of more BJPs and Harvard chaiwallahs to inspire mortals like us.
What distinctly differentiates this book from another in the market, are examples, real life stories covering basics like branding in Slit Chilies on the Rocks or the art of saying No in the chapter – Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full of Bitterness and Busy Weekends – in simple, lucid writing packed with humor.
The author not only reflects in depth insight on people’s characteristics with his careful observations and by linking personal experiences with corporate philosophies and success quotients, but also shows tremendous potential and promise for future books.
I borrowed this book from a colleague, to read and as I write this review, any guesses, what my nephew gets as his birthday gift, this year?
While I prefer to label YDNAG (That rhymes with my last name) as a self help guide rather than a Management Book, I also want to specify – for those who have read Robin Sharma, Shiv Khera, Subroto Bagchi, Anthony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey and the kind, will find this book a reiteration of several aspects they have already learnt however in a much light hearted and easy to remember manner for the readers to draw the learnings either from the title of the chapters, or reality bites or memory bites.
Appa, I hate Ireland and Agastya seemed to have cast significant impact on readers – however the reality bite tagged to that chapter, that had the BJP story stayed with me longer than it should. I was a tad disappointed about the proportion of the book that carried the principles and the sections that discussed the people – My personal choice would be inclusion of more BJPs and Harvard chaiwallahs to inspire mortals like us.
What distinctly differentiates this book from another in the market, are examples, real life stories covering basics like branding in Slit Chilies on the Rocks or the art of saying No in the chapter – Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full of Bitterness and Busy Weekends – in simple, lucid writing packed with humor.
The author not only reflects in depth insight on people’s characteristics with his careful observations and by linking personal experiences with corporate philosophies and success quotients, but also shows tremendous potential and promise for future books.
I borrowed this book from a colleague, to read and as I write this review, any guesses, what my nephew gets as his birthday gift, this year?
June 22, 2015
To the point but boring and quite overpriced
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