Archive for August 2008
Serious Play – Michael Schrage
This is a book about how the worlds best companies simulate to innovate. It is about rapid prototyping and testing and thus increasing the speed to market. The essential take away from this book is that the best companies manage their business by managing their prototypes and the behaviour around it. It isn’t so much of a treat as this was published in 1999 and many of the ideas have been reiterated in many subsequent publications.
Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Occasionally you come across books that were written for you, that were lying in the path of life to be discovered by you, for that book is you personified, as an individual and as a potential. For me ‘Flow’ is one such book. After many many months or probably years I am taking such a long time to read a small book of less than 250 pages, for every single dimension, meant a new area of self discovery, the norms and inclinations that I had formulated as part of my every day existence being analysed and put into context.
This book is about optimal experiences that people seek through their body, mind, human interactions and enrich their life continually. How it connects to your work, your relation ships, your leisure and how each of them benefits from the same.
It is so well studied and multidimensional such that material, abstract and spiritual dimensions are interwoven into a harmonious frame work, capable of optimal experience just by reading this book.

