Thursday, March 1, 2012

Last three books

Yes, that's the best title I could come up with. But finding enough energy to write this post is joy enough.

Edison on Innovation: This is a small book which tries to teach lessons about Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation by drawing on Edison's life. The actual 'lessons' are not much to write about, but it was nice to delve into Edison's life once again (I devoured a biography of him as a schoolboy).

Jack: Autobiography of Mr. Welch who as the CEO from 1981 to 2000 grew GE from a 18bn company to a 550bn company [side note: Edison was the founder of GE]. The book focuses mostly on his professional life. The writing is lucid and you will learn quite a bit, even if you don't agree with everything he has to say.

The Pixar Touch: The history of Pixar from its earliest days as a Grahics computer maker (The ill fated pixar image computer, which Pixar itself only used for a single film) to the king of animation. A terrific read full of interesting nuggets, including how Toy Story and its bretheren got made. And you will pick a thing or two about animation.

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I would have loved a detailed review of each one!

Mohsin said...

Not enough material (or energy) :)