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    BDB Book Club



    BDB Book Club is an initiative of Business Development Bureau India Pvt Ltd, popularly known as BDB which was the brain child of R V Krishnan, Chairman - BDB.  The Club aims at providing a unique forum for the corporates to mingle and discuss one professional publication every month after reading it.  The launch of BDB Book Club took place in Pune India on 30th Oct 2010 at the British Library and since then the club has more than 500 members. 


    BDB Book Club is one of the only book clubs of India which meet as regularly as once every month.  It is a platform for book lovers to meet, discuss, comment and share their points of view on a professional publication (mostly non-fiction) every month that every member of the group has read at the same time.  The Club announces the Book to be discussed one-month prior, which most often is a new release.  Each member buys a personal copy or may borrow the book from a library.  The Club Members meet at a pre-decided venue which is a library, a conference room or even a bookstore, on the fourth Saturday of every month in addition to the Special Sessions with well known authors.

     

    Introducing new ideas like discussion on mini video clips, short word games and generic thought provoking articles makes the Club meetings more enjoyable and interesting for the members.

     

    BDB Book Club has hosted special book reading sessions for its members which have been graced by authors such as Mr R Gopalakrishnan, Ms Sudha Menon, Dr Shashi Tharoor and Mr Subroto Bagchi.


     

     

     

    Since its launch, BDB Book Club members have read a number of interesting nonfiction books.  To name a few : Small Wonder - The Making Of The Nano by Philip Chacko, Christabelle Noronha and Sujata Agarwal, When the Penny Drops - Learning What's Not Taught by R Gopalakrishnan, Competing For The Future by C K Prahalad and Gary Hamel, Leading Ladies – Women who inspire India by Sudha Menon, The Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas by V. Raghunathan, The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone by Shashi Tharoor, The Professional by Subroto Bagchi, Imagining India- Ideas for the new century by Nandan Nilekani, The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha, Leadership and Self Deception by Arbinger Institute, Making India Work by William Nanda Bissel, Managing Radical Change – What Indian Companies Must Do to Become World Class by Christopher A Barlett, Sumantra Ghoshal and Gita Piramal etc.

     

     

    Books Suggestions for the month of December'11

     

     

     

     

    Mr. L Ravi Krishnan, Membership Number : BBC/002/2010
      1. “India: A portrait” by Patrick French

    Mr. Devashish Pandya, Membership Number : BBC/052/2011
      1. "Managing Radical Change: What Indian Companies Must Do to Become World-Class", by Christopher A Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal, Gita Piramal.

    Mr. Abhay Vaidya, Membership Number : BBC/012/2010
      1. “Execution- The discipline of getting things done” by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan.

    Mr. Prashant Shrawak    , Membership Number : BBC/022/2010
      1. “Who says Elephant Can’t Dance” – by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

    Mr. Sachin Bhide    , Membership Number : BBC/026/2010
     1.    Don’t Say Yes When You Want to Say No by Herbert Fensterheim, Ph.D. & JeanBaer
      2.    Double Your Learning Power by Geoffrey A. Dudley
      3.    IACOCCA – An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
      4.    Made in Japan by Akio Morita
      5.    Reengineering the corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy
      6.    Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay
      7.    The IBM Way by Buck Rogers
      8.    The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
      9.    You Can Sell It! By Paul Hanna







     

    Food for thought…

    “Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”



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    • I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opportunity,an obligation;every possession a duty.I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law;that government is the servant of people and not their master.

    • I believe in the dignity of labour,whether the head or hand;that the world owes no man a living but what it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

    • I believe thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,business or personal affairs.

    • I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

    • I believe in the sacredness of a promise,that a man’s world should be as good as his bond,that character – not wealth or power or position – is of supreme worth.

    • I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

    • I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God,named by whatever name, and that the individual’s highest fulfillment,greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with his will.

    • I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world;that it alone can overcome hate;that it alone can and will triumph over might.


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