Subash Rajesh's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:10:59 -0700 60 Subash Rajesh's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Principles: Life and Work 34941133 Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.� It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.

In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth� and “radical transparency,� include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards� for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.

Here is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.]]> 593 Ray Dalio Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 4.20 2017 Principles: Life and Work
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]]> <![CDATA[பண வாசம� / Pana Vaasam: செல்வம� உங்களைத் தேடி வருவதற்கான சி� ரகசியங்கள் (Tamil Edition)]]> 55672663 நீங்கள� செல்வந்தரா� வேண்டுமா?இந்த கேள்விக்கு நம� அனைவரின் ஏகோபித்த பதிலும� "ஆம�!" என்பதாகவ� இருக்கும�. மாற்றா� பதிலளிப்பவர்கள� அரித�. செல்வந்தரா� வேண்டும், இன்றைய வாழ்க்கை முறையை மாற்றி நினைத்� வாழ்வை வாழவேண்டும� என்கிற தீரா ஆச� எல்லாருக்கும� இருக்கிறது. ஆனால� ஒர� சிலருக்க� மட்டும� இந்த எண்ணம் கைகூடுவதேன�? ஏன� மற்றவர்களால் இத� நிகழ்த்த முடிவதில்ல�!உண்மையில� செல்வந்தராவத� உலகின் அனைத்த� மனிதர்களுக்கும� சாத்தியம�! அதற்குத் தேவையானத� ஒன்றேதான�. செல்வத்த� பற்றிய இயற்கை விதிகளின� சரியான புரிதல�!இவ்வுலகிலுள்� அனைவருக்கும் இந்த புரிதல� கிடைத்திடவேண்டும� என்ற நோக்கில் செல்வத்தின� ஞானம� அனைத்தும� மி� எளிய நடையில� அனைவருக்கும் பு]]> 0 Guru Mithreshiva Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 4.20 பண வாசம் / Pana Vaasam: செல்வம் உங்களைத் தேடி வருவதற்கான சில ரகசியங்கள் (Tamil Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth]]> 19101550 Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,� said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits. In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United States since the Civil War–to demonstrate the fact that incomes on the rise lead to more open and democratic societies. He explains that growth, rather than simply a high standard of living, is key to effecting political and social liberalization in the third world, and shows that even the wealthiest of nations puts its democratic values at risk when income levels stand still. Merely being rich is no protection against a turn toward rigidity and intolerance when a country’s citizens lose the sense that they are getting ahead.With concrete policy suggestions for pursuing growth at home and promoting worldwide economic expansion, this volume is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about the effects of economic growth and globalization.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 594 Benjamin M. Friedman Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 3.71 2005 The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
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]]> 50 Greatest Short Stories 29519107 This outstanding and wide-ranging anthology of stories is a collector’s item, designed for readers to refresh their acquaintance with some of the world’s finest writing and for newer readers to be introduced to it.
Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. Rider Haggard, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Jerome K. Jerome, H.G. Wells, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Frank Stockton, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Leacock, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, M. R. James, W. Somerset Maugham, R. L. Stevenson.]]> 600 Terry O'Brien 812913814X Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 3.95 50 Greatest Short Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker)]]> 10307141 Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.

If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Makes an Effective Executive,� by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.

HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you

Motivate others to excelBuild your team's self-confidence in othersProvoke positive changeSet directionEncourage smart risk-takingManage with tough empathyCredit others for your successIncrease self-awarenessDraw strength from adversity

This collection of best-selling articles featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive" by Peter F. Drucker, "What Makes a Leader?" "What Leaders Really Do," "The Work of Leadership," "Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?" "Crucibles of Leadership," "Level 5 The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve," "Seven Transformations of Leadership," "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership," and "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader."]]> 229 Harvard Business Publishing Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 4.06 2010 HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business]]> 9512985
Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges.

The Personal MBA explains concepts such
* The Iron Law of the Why every business is limited by the size and quality of the market it attempts to serve-and how to find large, hungry markets.
* The 12 Forms of Products and services are only two of the twelve ways you can create value for your customers.
* The Pricing Uncertainty All prices are malleable. Raising your prices is the best way to dramatically increase profitability-if you know how to support the price you're asking.
* 4 Methods to Increase There are only four ways a business can bring in more money. Do you know what they are?

True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed. Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master.]]> 416 Josh Kaufman 1591843529 Subash Rajesh 0 to-read 4.10 2010 The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World]]> 8095067
Based on more than 20 years of research and practice among 30,000 people in 45 countries, Getting More concludes that finding and valuing the other party’s emotions and perceptions creates far more value than the conventional wisdom of power and logic. It is intended to provide better agreements for everyone no matter what they negotiate � from jobs to kids to billion dollar deals to shopping.

The book, a New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal business best seller, is based on Professor Stuart Diamond’s award-winning course at the Wharton Business School, where the course has been the most popular over 13 years. It challenges the conventional wisdom on every page, from “win-win� to BATNA to rationality to the use of power. Companies have made billions of dollars so far using his new model and parents have gotten their 4-year-olds to willingly brush their teeth and go to bed.

Prof. Diamond draws from his experience as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The New York Times, Harvard-trained attorney, Wharton MBA, U.N. Consultant in many countries and manager and executive in many sectors, including technology, agriculture, medical services, finance, energy and aviation. “The ROI from reading Getting More will make it the best investment you make this year,� says Rhys Dekle, the business development head of the Microsoft Games division, which produces X-Box. He added that the book was his team’s best investment of the year too. The model was also used to quickly solve the 2008 Hollywood Writer’s Strike.

The advice is addressed through the insightful stories of more than 400 people who have used Prof. Diamond’s tools with great success: A 20% savings on an item already on sale. An extra $300 million profit in a business. A woman from India getting out of her own arranged marriage. Better relationships with the family, including teenagers. Raises at work. Better jobs. Dealing with emotional situations. Meeting one’s goals. Finding better things to trade. Solving cultural and political problems, sports conflicts, and ordinary arguments.

The book is intended to be used in any situation. The most common response is “life changing�, beginning on page one. “The most inspirational book I have read this year� said David Simon, an attorney in San Francisco, CA. “This book can change the world,� says Craig Silverman, Investment Advisor, Long Island, NY]]> 416 Stuart Diamond 0307716899 Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 4.08 2010 Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World
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]]> <![CDATA[Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004]]> 116953
This inside look at that 17-year cycle of growth, built upon interviews and unparalleled access to the most important analysts, market observers, and fund managers who eagerly tell the tales of excesses, presents the period with a historical perspective and explains what really happened and why.]]> 528 Maggie Mahar 0060564148 Subash Rajesh 0 4.03 2003 Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
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]]> <![CDATA[The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy]]> 998 CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR?

Who are the rich in this country?

What do they do?

Where do they shop?

What do they drive?

How do they invest?

Where did their ancestors come from?

How did they get rich?

Can I ever become one of them?

Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....

]]> 258 Thomas J. Stanley 0671015206 Subash Rajesh 0 4.05 1995 The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)]]> 16160797 456 Robert Galbraith 0316206849 Subash Rajesh 0 currently-reading 3.88 2013 The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny]]> 43877 Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace.

This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to:

Develop Joyful Thoughts, Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, Nourish Our Relationships, and Live Fully, One Day at a Time.]]> 208 Robin Sharma 0062515675 Subash Rajesh 0 3.88 1996 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny
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]]> The Girl on the Train 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Subash Rajesh 0 3.97 2015 The Girl on the Train
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]]> Thirteen Reasons Why 29844228 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]> 352 Jay Asher 1595147888 Subash Rajesh 0 3.71 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
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]]> <![CDATA[The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)]]> 968 The da Vinci Code, The da Vinci Code, The da Vinci Code, and The da Vinci Code

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.

The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.]]> 489 Dan Brown Subash Rajesh 0 3.92 2003 The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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]]> Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4) 17212231 ‘Seek and ye shall find.�

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance � sculptures, paintings, buildings � to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat�

Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against-time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.]]> 463 Dan Brown 0385537859 Subash Rajesh 5 3.88 2013 Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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]]> The Escape (John Puller, #3) 20767918 Until now.

John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason and national security crimes. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert alive, and so Puller takes on the burden of bringing his brother in to face justice.

But Puller quickly discovers that there are others pursuing his brother, who only see Robert as a traitor and are unconcerned if he survives. Puller is in turn pushed into an uneasy, fraught partnership with another agent, who may have an agenda of her own.


They dig more deeply into the case together, and Puller finds that not only are her allegiances unclear, but that there are troubling details about his brother's conviction....and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come to light. As the nation-wide manhunt for Robert grows more urgent, Puller's masterful skills as an investigator and strength as a fighter may not be enough to save his brother-or himself.

]]> 470 David Baldacci 1455521191 Subash Rajesh 5 4.11 2014 The Escape (John Puller, #3)
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]]> Rich Dad, Poor Dad 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Subash Rajesh 4 4.10 1997 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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]]> Modern Romance 23453112
Some of our problems are unique to our time.“Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?”“Should I go out with this girl even though shelisted Combos as one of her favorite snack foods?Combos?!� “My girlfriend just got a message fromsome dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did hejust send her a photo of his penis? Should I checkjust to be sure?”�

But the transformation of our romantic livescan’t be explained by technology alone. In a shortperiod of time, the whole culture of finding lovehas changed dramatically. A few decades ago,people would find a decent person who lived intheir neighborhood. Their families would meetand, after deciding neither party seemed like amurderer, they would get married and soon havea kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today,people marry later than ever and spend years oftheir lives on a quest to find the perfect person, asoul mate.

For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming hiscomic insight at modern romance, but for ModernRomance, the book, he decided he needed to takethings to another level. He teamed up with NYUsociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massiveresearch project, including hundreds of interviewsand focus groups conducted everywhere fromTokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzedbehavioral data and surveys and created their ownonline research forum on Reddit, which drewthousands of messages. They enlisted the world’sleading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, HelenFisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, SherryTurkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike anysocial science or humor book we’ve seen before.

In Modern Romance, Ansari combines hisirreverent humor with cutting-edge social scienceto give us an unforgettable tour of our newromantic world.]]> 279 Aziz Ansari 1594206279 Subash Rajesh 4 3.79 2015 Modern Romance
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