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Coetzee Wins 2003 Nobel Literature Award

By Brij Singh ⋅ October 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Coetzee Wins 2003 Nobel Literature Award
The son of a sheep farmer, Coetzee was born in Cape Town in 1940, but left South Africa for a decade after the Sharpeville shootings of 1960, when police fired on demonstrators and 70 people were killed. He worked briefly in England as a programmer for IBM and in [...]

Quote

By Brij Singh ⋅ September 30, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Once in a while you bump into some quote which tried to stay in the mind -
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to [...]

Recommended management books

By Brij Singh ⋅ September 30, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Melissa Shaw, from Network Fusion writes about her favorite management books -
* “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey.
Any of Covey’s books are excellent, and if you haven’t read any
of them, this is a good place to start. What I like most about
“7 Habits” is [...]

Christensen’s new book

By Brij Singh ⋅ September 24, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Need to buy this one. Sustainable growth and growing importance of innovating in commodity environments.
The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor (Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
Big Idea: Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma became the bible of the digital revolution after its 1997 publication. The idea was simple, [...]

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