You Don't Need A Godfather: Create your Own Success 1st Edition

The viral flu is strange: on the on hand it makes you sooo tired, you just want to sleep, sleep and sleep. And when you try to sleep... sleep becomes close to impossible! Tossing and Turing,my weary eyes landed on this pocket book that read ' you don't need a God father : Create your own Success' Awesome! An another self help book... I was sure I would be asleep in the next 10 minutes.

I completed the book in 90 minutes. And no! this was not skim reading.. it is impossible to skim read this book.. that is how light and lucid the narration is. Some of the interesting features:

•Delightful comic strips to add flavor to the peppy narrative.
•Reality bytes : real life examples to reinforce and reiterate
the theory elaborated
•Memory bytes that summarize each chapter and ensure we take
some time to reflect on the themes.

I see a lot of reviews branding this book as a management book. I DISAGREE. This book is a guide to situations and challenges so common in the saga called life. After the read, I realized, i have been suffering from the 'I hate Ireland Syndrome' for the last 24 years of my existence!! I have heard a zillion motivational speakers say 'It's ok to make mistakes!, It's ok to fail' I always used to trash them saying.. yea! rite.. easy for you to say. But after i was done with chapter two, I saw failure in a new light. And I think this is what fundamentally is the success of this book - it is powerfully convincing and you almost feel a personal bond with the characters and incidents.

As I reached page 108, I felt I was saying goodbye to a whole bunch of people I knew...

Kudos to you Elango, but the star definitely
is Little Agastya... after all "From the mouths of babes and sucklings come wisdom!"

MY RATING : Must read! Go get yourself a copy

PS: I am still trying to sleep...

This book celebrates success and the fact that it’s actually a lot more attainable than most of us think it to be.

Because success isn’t just being the boss’s favourite or getting the best assignments, it’s also about yourself and contfronting larger challenges. And anyone can be successful.

You don’t need a Godfather is a book, that for me, primarily, was fun to read. Quick, smart and funny.
And there’s a lot to learn.
Not just for a corporate career person or for someone who loves reading. For anyone.

Even someone like me and I’m a 17 year old student.

The book is light, refreshing and peppered with cartoons, featuring the author and his son, Agastya, who he calls his 'Little Guru'. Interesting analogies, anecdotes and examples make this book a really great read!! :)

I teach in one of management schools. Most of the time I cite umpteen number of examples to give practical perspective of business environment and oragisational behavior to my students. In the process I had asked my students to refer a few general books to read so that they will get few insights into the corporate life.

I can proudly ask them to read this book before stepping out of the college and before entering into the corporate world. This is a book which is written by a person, who struggled in initial days to find a niche for himself and learned his lessons by hard ways. He never stopped at his achievement but decided help others who always blamed everything and everyone but themselves for their failures.

A must read for all those people who dream to make it big but never step out of their comfort zone.

Ordered this book with lot of enthusiasm, expecting it would offer many new things for learning. However, found it very boring with nothing fresh and new to to offer. Most of the things are known and few things one can get from the code of business ethics (the manual of your company). It is overly priced, not worth 250 INR(without discounting). Ideal price should be 50-60 INR. The TCS Story by Ramadurai is much better and offers lots of concepts which would be useful in day to day managerial work.

Wow!! Never realized that this book will get me to write a review. This is my first review in Flipkart. I had several take aways from this book. How to take ownsership, How to create a brand for myself, How not to fall into success traps and many more. All told in simple language with great life stories. The last chapter summarizes the book so well that I plan to keep referring to it on a regular basis. Great read for people who have a team and for those who quickly want to manage one. I am planning to buy some more copies and gift it to my team and friends.