Ankesh Kothari is a Mumbai-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor known for his acumen on strategy and marketing. Fools learn from experience. Sages learn from history. This is the quote that drives Ankesh Kothari to learn from the masters. In Genius Biographies, he aims to share the stories and strategies that made people rich, famous and powerful.
Having just done a management course in the recent past, I had read quite a few management books over the last couple of years and have broadly classified them into two types: those which will be read once and then lie on the shelf gathering dust, and those which retain their relevance even when they're read over and over again. This delightful book belongs to the second type.
The best part about this book (and in a weird way, the only complaint that I have with it) is that it is very precis...
A crisp and clear book with short chapters that give an insight into the life's of people who made it big. The biographies are not long and boring filled with unwanted facts and dates and instead focus on stories from the lives of people like abe Lincoln and bill gates and Bruce lee and so on and puts light on their thought processes. The action summaries urged me to apply the lessons learnt from the stories in my life and work. All in all a collection of brilliantly simple, easy to read insp...