PES Business Review

Baisakhi Mitra Mustaphi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Management, P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

The book dissects the entrepreneurial journey into four elements: passion, intelligence, courage and circumstance, or what the authors call "Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck" (or HSGL). To varying degrees, one relies on all four in one's quest to professional (and personal) growth. After laying out the HSGL framework, the book provides nuggets of tried wisdom to help the reader reach his business potential on each of the four dimensions.

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Baisakhi Mitra Mustaphi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Management, P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Thomas L Friedman, an internally acclaimed author, Pulitzer prize winning New York Time columnist and reporter, along with Michael Mandelbaum, Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy at The John Hopkins University School of Advanced Internal Studies presents prescription for ailing America in their book, 'That Used To Be Us': What Went Wrong With America- And How It Can Come Back. The indicators are its non responsiveness towards the impacts of globalization, the revolution of information technology, nation's fiscal deficit and excessive and unjustified energy consumption.

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