In this autobiography, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says one of his prime business criteria is “fun.” Fun made Branson a billionaire, and few business memoirs are one-billionth as fun as Branson’s, nor as niftily written. Not only does it relate his side of near-death corporate experiences, it tells how the chairman literally cheated death by gun, shipwreck, and balloon crash. Branson’s... 

“The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life,” writes Malcolm Gladwell, “is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.” Although anyone... 

Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, “Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?” In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in... 

This book is excellent reading and is inspirational for a person who doesn’t realize the difference between a employee and a rich man or woman. How it relates to a career as an employee or a self employed person versus a business and investment person. How this CashFlow Quadrant affects our lives, past and future. In the book author distinguishes between an Employee, Self Employed, Business... 

These are the Top 50 Most Valuable Brands. From the article in Economic Times on 20th November, 2009. Top 50 Most Valuable Brands Share this article Facebook Twitter Digg StumbleUpon Google Buzz LinkedIn Delicious Email Print MySpace Technorati Orkut  Read More →

A recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends project revealed that the recession is having a very different impact by age. The economic downturn is keeping older adults in the workforce longer and younger adults are having a difficult time finding employment and staying employed. Older Americans, Baby Boomers in particular, have watched as their retirement and investment... 

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7IeKjkI90] This is really amazing advertisement. I found it while surfing on youtube today morning. The ad depicts how prompt is the service of ING Vysya Bank. In this ad postman tries to find the person who is in immediate need of his cheque book. The post man reaches the person at the very time he uses his last cheque. The advertisement not only shows the...