A methodical, well-organized guide for the world’s future leaders.
Kuttan, a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, offers a book that’s half memoir, half self-help guide for business executives.
The author’s goal with this debut work is to systematically teach readers—and particularly Indian executives—how to be happy. The author starts by outlining his “happiness system,” which is broken down into lessons on how to nurture one’s mind, body and soul. He also illustrates the “Seven Ps” for achieving happiness: purpose, pathway, passion, perseverance, positivity, patience and principles. But about halfway through the book, after a short “Happiness Quiz,” Kuttan switches gears and presents a memoir of his upbringing and varied business career. This is where the book really shines; the author summarizes his life elegantly and succinctly, showing how he came up with his systems approach to happiness by living a full, fascinating life. This section includes several pages of annotated photographs taken throughout his life that show him attending the University of Wisconsin and traveling in Europe and elsewhere. In the final, briefest part of the book, Kuttan launches a call to action, urging executives to use his systems approach: “It is predicted that by 2040, one out of every three workers in the world could be Indian,” he notes, and because of that, “the 21st century can truly be an Indian Century, if Indian leaders and people live up to their potential.” The author has lofty hopes for his home country and offers a specific plan for getting India on track—establishing teacher training programs modeled on the most successful American ones, exploiting emerging technologies and “soft skills” (such as communication and marketing), and refocusing on providing health care and improving the environment: all noble goals and all well thought out.
A methodical, well-organized guide for the world’s future leaders.Pub Date: Aug. 9, 2013
ISBN: 978-0988868007
Page Count: 202
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Oct. 10, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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