No words... just look at'em....

City Bike

Italians? Man that is barbaric

Guess we were the only customers in this dhaba, check out the size of the vessel.

One of the supplementary forms for Indian Passport

Someone drives a Merc to a Hyundai showroom???

Yin & Yang

An export reject pillow cover.

PJ Time - February

Here we are... back with some of the deadly PJs and one liners....

These were a series of Jokes based on one of our Friend's name 'Malcolm.'

Vimal: What will you say when Malcolm has gone to a function?
All: What?
Vimal: Mal Function

Amih: What will you say if Malcolm starts practising Law?
All: What?
Amith: Mal Practise.

Vimal: What will you say if Malcolm has eaten properly?
All: What?
Vimal: Mal Nourished.

Amith: What will you call a nutriion product that Malcom would Invent?
All: What?
Amith: Mal Nutrition.

Malcolm: Enough Man. Shut up.
Vimal:What is malcolm's attire called as?
All: What?
Vimal: Mal ware.

Amith: What is the name of the locality Malcolm lives in?
All: What:
Amit: Mal'area'

Vimal: What wil you say when Malcolm smokes a beedi in a bar?
All: What?
Vimal: 'Mal'abar Beedi

Malcolm: Oh God!
Vimal & Amith: Yes you called me?
Malcolm: oh Shit....

Vimal: What hapens to Carol on December 25th?
Carol: What happens...
Malcolm: I don't know.
Vimal: She becomes Christmas Carol!
Malcolm: Oh Go... Never Mind...

Vimal: What do you say when Malcolm has gone out?
Malcolm: Malgone.
Vimal: See now you are calibrated.
From that day Macolm and Carol call us Vilas and Omith.
Vimal: Hey do you know why they don't have to sell cough syrups in Dubai?
Chai: Why they are considered as drugs or something?
Vimal: No because right on the cover it says shake well before use.
Chai: Shut Up.

Vimal: Russel, drive slow there is a cow in front of you.....
Leeni: That's a bull...
Vimal: Whatever I can't make out if its a bull when its dark.
Amith: Why would you want to make out with a bull?
Vimal: ?!?!?!?!
Leeni: This must go on your blog.

Malcolm: Shahid Kapoor got some award recently do you know for which move he got the award?
Vimal: I think it was for 3 idiots.
Malcolm: What? Shaid Kapoor never acted in that movie.
Vimal: That's exactly why they gave him the award.

Vimal: My computer is crashing too often these days man.
Russel: Why don't you sell your computer..
Amith: May be say 10,000 bucks..
Vimal: No Macha I can't give my computer and 10,000 on top of it for the taker.

Vimal: Hey Rishi, this is your cigarette packet?
Rishi: Yes.
Vimal: Do you know if i smoke this cigerette my birthday will change?
Rishi: What?!?!?!
Vimal: Ya on the cover it says smoking causes cancer, I'm an aquarian now.
Rishi: Aiyoo.....

Leeni was trying out a shoe to go with her dress, she had put on one shoe to just check...
Leeni: Russel, does this look perfet?
Russel: Yes.
Vimal: Actually no. You'll need to put on the other shoe as well.
Leeni: Thanks Vimal. What would we do wthout you around.

While watching Avatar, in the end the hero tells the heroine 'I see You,' which is the equivalent to I love you in aelien language and the heroine reciprocates with, 'I see You."
Amith: That guy is trying to tell I'm seriously injured take me to the ICU and this mad woman is telling 'I See You' women I tell you.

Leeni: Hey Chai, you didn't go to work yesterday and today?
Chai: Ya.
Leeni: The who is opening and cloing the gates at MphasiS?
Chai Expresses irritation.
Vimal: Let's spare him atleast when he is not keeping well. Actually I had to jump off the fence yesterday and today because Chai was on leave.
Chai: ?!?!?!

Jai: Macha I'm so unhappy with my job, I want to put papers.
Vimal: Ya you can but first find out how much they will pay and will you be able to get up early in the morning?
Jai: What?!?!?!
Vimal: You said you want to put paper naa... Its a tough job macha... you have to wake up early in the morning, you'll need to remember which paper to put in which house, etc.
Jai: Forget it, I'll go talk to someone else.

Shushmit: Hey what channel is this you guys are watching?
Russel: Discovery Turbo.
Vmal: It's an amazing channel. 24 hours they only show automobiles, reviews, making of vechiles, remodelling, designing...
Leeni: In short they show vandi repair 24/7.
Vimal: Vandi Repair? Leeni there is so much more than vandi repair that they show in this.
Since then discovery turbo is called as the 'Vandi Repair Channel.'

Russel was waiting in the hosptal for a surgical procedure to be completed.
Doctors: Lets give him a local anesthesia.
Vimal & Amith: What nonsense. He is foreign return why are they not giving him an international anesthesia. Shall we ask the doctors?
Russel: Guys stop embarassing me and wait outside.

Russel: Who is gong to bring the coffee from the cafeteria kitchen?
Vimal: Amith will go.
Leeni: Hey we've ordered 3 cofees how will he get 3 coffees with 2 hands man?
Vimal: oh. Amith do one thing, drink one coffee there only and get the other two. Problemo Solved.
Leeni: Shouldn't have opened my mouth.

Amith: Guys. I finally got my promotion papers. Who is treating me now?
Leeni: Fabian the Psychiatrist
Amith: ?!?!?!

Vimal: The purpose of a Business Improvement Team is to validate your gut feel with numbers.

At a wedding, some random friend
Friend: Hey where do you wash hands?
Vimal: In the hand.
Friend: ?!?!?!

Saravana: I heard two or three people will quit in another two months, why?
Vimal: Bramin Studies
Saravana: Bramin Studies????
Vimal: Matlab Higher Studies. (Higher is generally pronounced as Iyer in south india)

Vimal: When you know you are going for a debrief session, make sure you put on atleast two briefs.

Books you must read...

Screw It, Let's Do It by Richard Branson

This is a short autobiography of one of the most admired business personalities in the world, Richard Branson. There is a lot of interesting trivia that one can come know reading this book like how Branson met Pil Collins, why did Elton John compose an album for Princess Diana, what got Banson into the jail, what's the connection between Branson and Amundsen. Besides these trivia what really grabs your attention is the determination that Branson towards all the things he has done in life so far. This book also answers your question on what sets a world class business leader aside from the mediocre ones. This book is one of the 'Quick Reads' editions that is 100 pages written in simple and plain english. You just need about an hour to read this book.

"Always beware if the risks are too random or too hard to predict, but remember, if you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win."

"Chase your dreams, but live in the real world.

"Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night."

"Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human action. If there's an ocean, we cross it. If there's a disease, we cure it. If there's a wrong, we right it. If there's a record, w break it. If there's a mountain, we climb it."

Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney

This is a book on Steve Jobs, the face of Apple. I would strongly recommend this book to managers, techies and aspiring entrepreneurs. If you've ever wondered, "What's so great about apple?" or " What's so great about Steve Jobs?" then this book will be able to answer. Its facinating to read about how Steve Jobs plans every single product launch to the minutest of details. The book also explains the miticulous approach of Steve Jobs when it comes to developing products. Each apple product is designd to perfection and the motive behind designing each product has always been to redefine existing standards and taking it to the next level. This makes apples products far mor supeior in the market and the only thing other companies can think of is to try and catch up. There are definity a lot of things to learn from Steve Jobs, and this book clerly highlights those and goes a lot in detail making it easier for the reader to look at the big picture. If you have already read or planning to read Steve Wozniac's (co founder of Apple) biography, then let me tell you there is a bit of cotadiction between both the Steve's version of the story.

Some Exerpts from the book....
"What makes Steve's methodology different than everybody else's is that he always believed that the most important decisions you make are not the things you want to do, but the things you decide not to do."

"A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

"Design is a funny word, some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, its really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarly, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you hav to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes passionate commitment to really thoroughly undersand smething, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most peple don't take the time to do that."

"When you start looking at a problem and think its really simple, you don't understand how complex the problem really is."

"Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10.30 at night with a new idea, or because they realised something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea."

"The older I get, the more I'm convinced that motivesmake so much difference."

"You can't be too far ahead, but you have to be far enough ahead because it takes time to implement. So you have to intercept a moving train."

"It gave a tremendous level of self-confidnce, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way."

PJ Time

 This is the December editon of Dadly PJs & Onliners.

Auburn: Hey when do we start the Christmas decoration.
Vimal: Let's first find out if the birthday boy is ok with all this.
Auburn: Who's the birthday boy noe?
Vimal: Jesus Christ.
Auburn: Oh God, should have thought of that.

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: How old are you Auburn?
Auburn: 27.
Shashi: Hey yesterday you said your were 26?
Vimal: Hey Happy Birthday Auburn.
Everybody in the room: ?!?!?!?!?

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party

Shashi: Do you know the latest craze in China, selling virgin chicken. Restraunts that claim they serve virgin chicken attract a lot of crowd.
Baba: What's a virgin chicken?
Vimal: Egg. So omlette and egg burji are in demand now in China.
Shashi: Dai.....
Everybody in the room: Ha Ha Ha....

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: Hey where did you get the spring roll from?
Auburn: In some shop in commercial street I didn't plan to pick up spring rolls, the guy asked us to have a bite. It tasted good so picked up some for the party.
Vimal: So what would have happened if Auburn actually had to eat spring rolls there instead of just having a bite?
Baba: What would have happened?
Vimal: Bite would have become Kilo Byte!
Rishi: Hey send this guy home man.

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Thomas: One of my friend is selling his Ford Ikon, if you are really intrested I can take you to his place one day.
Baba: Ya please let me know.
Thomas: Sure you can probably take it for a spin and then decide if you want to go for it or not.
Vimal: Hey in that case make sure you take Mutthaiya Muralidharan along with you.
Baba: Why?
Vimal: He is a good spinner naa...
Everybody in the room: Aiyyooo....

@ Karthik's Party, looking at Rishi's 100 Pipers bottle...
Vimal: Rishi where are the remaning 95 Pipers?
Rishi: What?!?!?!
Vimal: The label says 100 Pipers but there are only 5 in the label.
Rishi: The rest are in Scotland.
Some other day @ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: My brother is going to Scoland in Jan and even I'm planning to go there at that time.
Vimal: That will be good, finally you'll get to meet the remaining 95 pipers.
Rishi: Wha? Oh ok... Yaaa....
Everyone else in the room: ?!?!?!?!?!?!

At an ad hoc drinking session outside the Leela's, at a time when everyone was drunk...
Chetan: Guys name any 10 great men in the world.
Jones: Bill Gates.
Amith: Niel Armstrong.
Vimal: Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker.
Russel: Michael Dell.
and so on, then
Chetan: Good so all these men, they had a dream, they were detrmined to pursue their dream and they lived their dreams. Right? It was no rocket scince for them to achieve their dreams.
Vimal: But Chetan, for Niel Armstng it was rocket science.
Chetan: Good One....
Everyone: Ha Ha Ha....

Chai: What movie is this?
Vimal: Taken.
Chai: What's it about?
Vimal: The whole movie is about a kid sleeping.
Chai: What?!?!?!?
Viml: It's about a kidnap.
Chai: Oh God.

Vimal: Hey how long Tequila has been in existance?
Chai: I don't know, it didn't come with a birth certificate.
Vimal: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Vimal: Nice shirt, how come this one's with a ChineseCollar.
Auburn: I Like this Mandrain collar, but the tailor didn't make it the way I'dasked him to.
Vimal: You should have written the specifications in a piece of paper and given it to him.
Auburn: No I actually gave him a sample shirt and he still screwed it up.
Vimal: Sample shirt doesn't work you should have written the insructions and givn it to him.
Auburn: How will that help?
Vimal: He will Read & Taylor (Reid & Talor) naa...?
Auburn: Started......?!?!?!?!?!

Leeni: Harmoica is like a mouthorgon right?
Vimal: Nope its a girl named Monica who loses everything.
Leeni: Ok. No more questions.

Vimal: Where is this guy comming from?
Amith: He had gone to attend an interview for a vacancy in our xyz department.
Vimal: That's a tough job and he wants to move there?
Amith: Yup.
Vimal: Ask him to keep a fire extinguisher with him all the time.
Amith: OK.
Shashi: Why?
Vimal: His ass will be on fire most of the time naa that's why.

Chai (holding a beer bottle in his hand): Hey where is the opener?
Vimal: Must be sleeping.
Leeni: Yaa he played the whole day naa so should e tired.
Chai: What?!?!?!?!
Vimal & Leeni: You were asking for Sewag right? He's the opener....
Chai: God.

Vimal: Hey check out that name board, it says Legal Answer.
Amith: Where?
Vimal: See there it says Laajawab.
Amith: Ok.

There's a new social networkig site for all the donkeys out there, its called AssBook.

Pictures can say a lot

Here are some pictures that i really enjoyed, thought will share it with the rest of the world and explain the meaning hidden inside every picture.

"A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step." You need to step on this guy's ass for him to join us for a trip. BTW that's Russel trying to kick Amith's ass.

The more hands you have the more you will clean your house. Russel (in pic) has an obsession towads cleaning so the friends lend him a helping hand.

PJ Time

A lot of my friends curse me for the kind of PJs / Oneliners I come up with time and again but end of the day we all have a good laugh except the one to whom the PJ / Oneliners is directed to. Well actually all of my close friends come up with deadly PJ / Oneliners themselves which has left me speachless sometimes as well. Here is a compilation of such PJs and one liners...

Vimal: Hey our clients travelled in the same flight we travelled in, but we reached Pune before them.
Rishi: How is that possible man?
VImal: We were sitting in the front and the clients were sitting at the back.
Rishi: Aiiyoooo.

Once we all planned to go out for dinner and Chai came checking on us..
Chai: You Guys are ready?
Amith: No we are naidu..
Chai: Oh God....

Leeni: Hey Russel's team won the dream team award today.
Vimal: Oh so his is the only team that keeps dreaming and not doing any work huh?
Leeni: Good one... We'll bug Russel with that.

Karan: Hey this is where we took photo last time as well.
Vimal: Is it? But who dropped the photo?
Shashi: Ha Ha Ha Ha...
Karan: ?!?!?!?!?!?!

Rishi: He made a career limiting move.
Vimal: I guess the next time he'll make a career limiting Amruthanjan.
Rishi: Aiyyoooo.... Hey go da....
Vimal: Why are you calling me a horse?
Rishi: What?
Vimal: Goda means horse in hindi naa?
Rishi:?!?!?!?

Vimal: My neighbour has two cats and he has kept some wierd names for them. One is pixel and the other is megapixel!
Amith: Macha that's pixie and marushka.
Vimal: Whaterver....

Vimal: Our Ramu quit naa. He is with ABC Company.
Baba: Seriously?! What is he there as?
VImal: Employee.
Baba: ?!?!?!?!?

While watching the movie Taking of the Pelham 1 2 3.
Leeni: Vimal. Quickly tell me which part this is? 1, 2 or 3?
Vimal: ?!?!?!

Baba: I need a beer macha...
Russel: Its in the fridge...
Baba: Macha where is the opener?
Vimal: Both are in Mohali, one is injured I guess.
Baba: What ?!?!?
Vimal: You were asking for Sewag & Ghambir right?
Baba: Aiiyoooo

Vimal: Hey Chai, I read this somewhere. Let me see if you can crack this. You are in a boat in the middle of the sea and all you got is two cigarettes and no ligher or match box. How will you light the cigarette?
Chai: I'll quit smoking.
Vimal: No Chai, just throw one cigarette into the water.
Chai: How does that help?
Amith: The boat becomes lighter
Chai: ?!?!?! Dai Magane...
Amith: Or you can start praising one cigarette and the other cigarette will start burning out of jealousy.
Chai starts punching Vimal & Amith.

Russel: How come you are coming back from work so late?
Vimal: Don't ask macha.
Leeni: Ok Fine. Russel shall I serve dinner?
Russel: Yup.
Vimal: ?!?!?!?!?!

Russel: I want to try Lasania
Vimal: I'll let you know the next time Sania Mirza goes to France.
Russel: What's that got to do with Lasania.
Vimal: Because in France Sania will become La Sania right? that's why.
Russel: ?!?!?!
Chai: Dai....

Vimal: How to improve digestion?
Chai: How?
Vimal: You should read a book while eating.
Chai: How does that help?
Vimal: 'Readers Digest' naa...
Chai: ?!?!?!

Why doesn't fairness creams make people fair?
Because when you are applying the cream to your face, the cream actually gets applied to your palm and not your face that why. Don't believe me, check out your palm you will realise that its fairer than you face!

Vimal: How to succeed?
Chai: If this is one of your PJs I'll kill you. Anyways tell me.
Vimal: After you have eaten the fruit, suck the seed instead of throwing it away, that's how you sucseed.
Chai: Dai Magane.

This is meant for the shortest guy in the group: "How is the air down there?" or "Bugger you'll be the last one to know when it rains."

Amith says this a lot, "You are half way towards being successful, you SUCK."

"Your IQ is Chappal Size."

Leeni says this a lot to Vimal: "You are a 'geniASS' (genius)."

"Fail Fail until you successfully Fail."

Chai: Macha I went to pick up some chicken liver from the meat shop.
Vimal: Dude you should have bought Hindustan Lever instead.
Amith: No dude Godrej 7 lever is better than all this.
Chai: Dai Magane.

Amith: What do you do when you feel sick?
Chai: Take medicines?
Amith: No. You should put your hands up in the air and say 'balley balley.' (Sick is generally pronounced as Sikh in south india).
Chai: ?!?!?!

Russel: Why aren't you eating fish?
Vimal: Because I don't know swimming.

Vimal: Why don't you eat non veg?
Amith: I'm a vegetarian macha.
Vimal: So what. You drink water, water is non vegetarian.
Amith: How?
Vimal: Fish lives in water naa....
Russel: Macha you can eat mutton or beef both goat and cow are vegetarians, they eat only grass...
Amith: ?!?!?!?
Chai: You buggers....!?!?!

Baba: Macha our sandeep bought a new blackberry.
Amith: Is it? which one.
Baba: Black Berry Storm.
Vimal: Hey no man Halle Berry is storm.
Baba: What?!?!?!?
Amith: You've not seen the x-men movies? In that Halle Berry's character name is Storm.
Baba: Sorry macha I shouldn't have opened my mouth in front of you guys.

Vimal: Baba let's see whose phone has the loudest sound output. I bet my Nokia 6131 is 1000 times better than your expensive blackberry.
Vimal then plays a song from his phone and Baba also start playing the same song. Vimal stops playing after a while and Baba is still playing the song.
Vimal: Oh your phone is playing the song? I didn't know you even started playing until i stopped playing in my phone.
Amith: Baba that was an insult.
Vimal: But I thought that was a black berry.
Baba: Sorry macha I'll leave....

Books you must read...

I am going to share a brief summary of some of the good books i have read which you can try as well. These are my personal views and can vary when compared to the rest of the world. These are more of a "Books I recommend" post for all you readers out there.....

Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter
This is a easy to read simple fable about a bunch of penguins who live on an iceberg without knowing that it is melting. There is one penguin that sees this coming and works on enlightning the rest of the group and finding a new habitat. This is a good read for starters, the languauge used by the author is simple yet powerful. This book teaches you change management and enables to look at things differently. If you are a book worm you will complete this book in <>The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
I don't think this book needs an introduction nor a recommendation. This book again teaches you a lot of corporate stuff and some values in the form of a fable. When youread this book you definitely do come across instances where you can relate to any one of the characters. This book even sometimes leaves you thinking "how come i did not see it this way." Another good book for starters.

First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckhingham & Curt Coffman
Actually one of my friend had asked me find out the cost of this book when I'd been to a bookstore. I read the review on the cover of the book and thought I'll read it. This is not a kind of book for starters or first time readers (atleast from my understanding of starters and first time readers). This is a must read for all people managers and more so for the ones who are aspiring to be people managers. There are a lot of useful management concepts that you can take away from this book. This book teaches you and provides tools that would make you life as a people manager a lot easier, effective and efficient.

Conversations with God 1, 2, & 3 by Neale Donald Walsh
If you are very religious and have completely faith in the God you worship, this book might turn out to be a shocker. I gave my girlfriend (well I don't know if that word is still appropriate) part one of this series, she is a person who falls under the criteria mentioned in the previous sentance and she did not like the book and she did not even complete the book. This book takes a completely different approach towards religion, god, life and the world. One fine day the author decides to write a letter to God and suddenly he realises that God is responding to his letter through him. End result the author asks the questions and god answers them. I thoroughly enjoyed this series because the concept of god and religion this book deals with is very much closer to my ideology of god and religion. This book make you imagine certain thing that you would have never imagined before, somethings like darkness doesnot exist it is a mere absence of light, because we've seen light we created darkness in its absence. Same thing goes for good & bad, head & cold, etc. This book is refreshing and reviving, though it can get too texty texty a couple times (especially the third part) which might reduce your attention span.

This series has some real good phrases that eveyone will like such as, "If you saw you as God sees you, you'll smile a lot." "God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a devine purpose behind everything and therefore a divine presence in everything." "God has no way to speprate himself from you or anything else. Hell is simply not knowing this. Salvation is knowing and inderstanding it completely."

Cows Don't Give Milk by Pramod Batra
This is another interesiting read for first time readers. There are a few places where this book teaches you some strategies and stuff but mostly it preaches things that have alerdy been preached a number of times in various other books, text books, seminars, etc. In a nutshell this book takes a very practical approach towars some of the most frequent and common issues we come across. The tag line is "Cows don't give milk, you have to take it."

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Grestner Jr
If you are techie you'll enjoy this book and if you are not a techie and is aspiring to be an entreprenuer then its even better. Lou Grestner is not a techie, but he takes over as the CEO of IBM when IBM is going through its all time low in is history. Lou gets the basics in place and transforms this mega corporation into one of the most profitable IT company in the world. It is said that as companies get bigger, they tend to forget the basics and do a lot of complicated stuff that would set the company in the path of destruction. IBM was on one such path when Lou took over, some of the things he brings in are simple solutions that has a long term fix and immense potential for cost saving & profit making. A lot of oltimers in IMB did go through a culture shock when Lou brought in such changes but Lou and his team have managed to stay focussed and achieve waht they wanted. Some of the things that Lou got in as immediate and long term fixes were centralisation, verticalisation of the orgs, performance based variable pay structures, things that helped drive more accountability at all level. There are some graphs that depict IBMs performance before and after Lou took over and that's a kind of graph that can substitute your resume! There is one phrase that Lou keeps telling his people which I have also started using a lot these days, "People do what you inspect and not what you expect."

The Greatness Guide 1 & 2 by Robn Sharma
Another easy read from Mr. Sharma. The Greatness Guide series is a compilation of small articles that talk about all aspects of life. Each chapter is about 1 or 2 pages each so this is a bokk that you can pause or stop reading at any time. But guess what it is quite difficult to pause / stop reading this book. If you buy this book you also get to download one of Robin's 60 minute speach on what differentiates a great organisation from mediocre organisations. That is a very interesting audio, atleast most of it. If you are a people manager then some of the stuff he talks about in this audio will definitely turn out to be very useful. You can even use some of the chapters in these books to train your pople managers.

The Google Story by David A Vice
One coincedance you'd notice if you read books like this is some of the big IT giants in the world today once started off as a collage project. Google and Sun Microsystems (SUN - Stanford University Network) are one of those companies that started from Stanford. This book is amazing due to the amout of detail that it deals with, it covers a lot of interesting trivia about google, the internet search industry, how google stays on top, why google employees are so happy with their job, etc. There is one entire chapter in this book that talks about how the google cafeterias are designed! It also anwers our question on how Google make money, what is the basic concept of page rank, etc. If you have a gmail account, have you ever noticed that whenever you read an e-mail, all the sponsored links that you would see on the right side of the screen will be related to the subject of your e-mail (well there was a law suite filed on Goole for breach of privacy for the same but that story is history now)?

This book also talks about why google does not have any competitors till date, how aggressive and obsessive are the founders of goolge to capture every region of the world market, how obssessive is google in redifining benchmarks that they themselves set in the industry a while ago, how obssessive is google in innovating. Do you know gmail was project by one of the google employees? Well google gives each employee a few hours every week where they can work on their own projects and innovate, gmail is one such project. It is a must read for management professionals and techies. This book also has some stuff for the common man... How to use google as a calculator, how to use google as a currency converter, how to look up people, phone #s, address using google, how to optimise your search in google, etc.

Shift by Carlos Goshn & Philippe
Another transformation story of one of the biggest auto makers in the world. Carlos comes to Nissan from Renault to fix the company and save the company from going bankrupt. This is another book that reinforces that if you don't have your basics in place then you are in for disaster. Carlos brings in a lot of optimisation that minimises costs and also changes a lot of traditional practices that existed in Nissan that was actually slowing down its progress and turning the organisation in the opposite direction. There is a lot you can know about the auto industry, do you know how one of the hot selling car segment, "the SUVs" come into existance? Well this book can answer this for your. There is a fair amount of Carlos' biography that may not interest you that much but all in all an interesting book to read.