Money Management

http://www.careers-in-finance.com/mm.htm

Money management - neat write-up !

PMBA

Here is the list of books that ha been suggested at Josh Kaufman's site on Personal MBA:
-Mastery by George Leonard (B&N)
-Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton (B&N)-Getting Things Done by David Allen (B&N)
-The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (B&N)
-What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan (B&N)
-Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business by Ram Charan (B&N)
-On Competition by Michael Porter (B&N)
-Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne (B&N)
-Seeing What's Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony (B&N)
-The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker (B&N)
-First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman (B&N)
-The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham (B&N)
-The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham (B&N)
-Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
-The McGraw-Hill 36
-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers by Robert A. Cooke (B&N)
-Essentials of Accounting by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman (B&N)
-The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox (B&N)
-Lean Thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones (B&N)-The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel (B&N)
-The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (B&N)
-Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (B&N)
-The Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong (B&N)
-Purple Cow by Seth Godin (B&N)
-Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin (B&N)
-The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki (B&N)
-The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
-Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (B&N)
-On Writing Well by William Zinsser (B&N)
-How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (B&N)
-Influence by Robert B. Cialdini (B&N)
-The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer (B&N)
-Flawless Consulting by Peter Block (B&N)
-Real Estate Principles for the New Economy by Norman Miller & David Geltner (B&N)
-Getting To Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton (B&N)
-Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer (B&N)
-A Primer on Business Ethics by Tibor Machan & James Chesher (B&N)
-Brand New by Nancy F. Koehn
-American Business, 1920-2000 by Thomas K. McCraw, John H. Franklin, and A. S. Eisenstadt (B&N)
-The Little Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass (Editor) (B&N)
-Re-imagine by Tom Peters (B&N)
-The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (B&N)
-The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch (B&N)

Here's the updated ISB blogs list:-

http://13june.blogspot.com/
http://jainalok.blogspot.com/
http://spaces.msn.com/disha//
http://disorderedthoughts.blogspot.com/
http://cosmotron.blogspot.com/
http://leonhartzz.blogspot.com/
http://kaykayatisb.blogspot.com/
http://krishnanr.blogspot.com/
http://hmtg.blogspot.com/
http://rhapsoder.blogspot.com/
http://nikhilkamma.blogspot.com/
http://piyushkheria.wordpress.com/
http://priyankamusings.blogspot.com/
http://rishikghosh.blogspot.com/
http://keystoimaginations.blogspot.com/
http://toasttomylife.blogspot.com/
http://sukalp.blogspot.com/
http://www.resolvequery.com/blog//
http://swaplife.blogspot.com/
http://imemyselfandisb.blogspot.com/
http://isbpal.blogspot.com/
http://www.wundergal.blogspot.com/
http://www.itzzz-my-life.blogspot.com
http://www.nucliomaniac.blogspot.com/
http://captainvpp.blogspot.com/

GMAT prep notes from Clearadmit

http://clearadmit.jot.com/GMATPrep

Bush @ ISB

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060303-3.html

ISB current students blogs

Bharani - Way to the top
http://way2top.blogsome.com/

ISB alums

Raja
http://isbpgp.blogspot.com/

Sujayath
http://mbaframes.blogspot.com/

Chaitanya
http://seshmics.blogspot.com/

Dhar
http://sumitdhar.blogspot.com/

Books to read for "Managing Organizations"

• Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them [Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich]
• The Winner’s Curse [Richard Thaler]
• Competing by Design [Nadler and Tushman]
• The Visible Hand [Alfred Chandler]
• Tree: A Life Story [David Suzuki]
• No Gods No Masters [Daniel Guerin]
• Filling the Glass : The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business [Barry Maher]
• How we know what isn’t so [Tom Gilovich]
• Organizations in Action [James Thompson]
• Organization and Environment [Lawrence and Lorsch]

Quality awards with Infosys

• Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Award, for the year 2003
• CII-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence, recognized as a role model for Total Quality Management in the year 2002
• The IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj Award (Baldrige based) in year 2000

Quality certifications with Infosys

ISO 9001-2000
CMM Level 5
CMMI Level 5
PCMM Level 5
TL 9000
BS 7799
ISO 14001

You can make their day !

http://humanresources.about.com/od/motivationsucces3/a/lead_motivation_p.htm

Market size estimations

http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/mcon-mktmeasures-mkt-size.pag?title=Market+Size


http://www.betterproductdesign.net/tools/market/user_demand.htm

Resources for Economists on the Internet

http://rfe.org/

Harvard Newsletter

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/index.jhtml

more linx

prollie might've posted these already
http://daveformba.blogspot.com/2004/06/good-info-from-someone-who-got-760-on.htmlhttp://home.comcast.net/~dave.kim/GMAT_Study_Strategy.htmhttp://www.gmatjj.blogspot.com/Something I wrote on scoretophttp://www.scoretop.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11665&PN=1&TPN=1hth

desi site...

http://www.gmatxperts.com

Interview tips

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/MBA/enews/dec05/story1.html

Tips from "The People"

NY Times Lives

http://www.nytimes.com/magazine/

Why have I put this here:
This gives a vibrant description which is good for inspiration while writing personal essays.

Case Questions

http://www.casequestions.com/

Questions at ISB

About my job (some more related questions)
Why MBA
Post MBA
my weekend activities
Recent book I read
Any incident in Job when I am disappointed
How to sustain ecomonic growth in India?

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- What I have learnt from UK?
- What are major achievements at client site?
- Why ISB? What you want to learn from us?
- Some questions on project management, meeting deadlines if 2 of
your teammembers leave all of a sudden?
- Few questions related to UK culture
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