Author: Achal Rangaswamy [ Price: Rs. 200 ]

This book is a practical, “hands – on” guide for students, corporate aspirants and young men and women who have just begun working. The book takes the reader through a conversational journey of self-realisation and self actualisation. Written by a senior corporate who has over 3 decades of experience himself, the friendly and simple book sticks to contemporary language and puts the reader at ease. Yet, each chapter provides a profound lesson in terms of learning joyfully, working with responsibility, and having a great attitude of gratitude. Achal Rangaswamy constantly talks of “stress- free happiness” and “taking the road of one’s choice”. The book is anecdotal as well as prescriptive, but is not one of those self-help books that leave you wondering what to do next. In fact, at the end of each chapter, the author leaves the reader with a question or two to answer, even take notes and then keep looking at those notes so that they can serve as stepping stones on the way to success not only at work, but also as an individual who is always on the grow. Laced with spirituality, which is neither boring, nor in-your-face kind of instructional matter, the book continuously highlights the need to stay grounded, learn at a measured pace rather than feel frantic, and look at succeeding without knocking down everybody else in sight. Based on the author’s two decades long interaction with students from Biz Schools and engineering colleges, many issues like choice of streams, choice of functions at work, dealing with day to day crises at the workplace, and issues in man management are discussed with many anecdotes to tellingly give the reader options to look at. There is even a chapter on goal setting and monitoring, which is literally a hand-held, Do It Yourself guide, which helps the reader plan various goals, professional, personal, social and of higher orders as well.