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How to win friends and Influence people is a classic in self-help or personality development category. The original edition of the book was written in 1937 by Dale Carnegie. However the principles mentioned in the book are timeless and it can be used by generations of people as long as human kind exists. The goal of the book is to provide certain principles to follow in successfully interacting with people, get the other person to buy-in your views, get the other person to do something which you need, to get the other person be friends with you and be influenced by you. Since it deals with communication and interaction, the principles apply to every individual whether it is personal, professional or business interactions. Noting down few of the principles below: Fundamental Techniques in handling people: Avoid criticism, complains instead use positive reinforcement techniques Give honest appreciations (Be lavish in appreciations) Talk in terms of benefits the other person...

The Unicorn Project - is a technology novel written by Gene Kim and published in 2019. It talks about a company in the era of digital disruption  where it simply cannot cope up with the expectations of stakeholders mainly because it is bound by the old age practices, old software and hardware. It takes you into a world where existing practices are completely opposite to the practices of Lean management and Agility. It is driven by a bureaucratic management structure, highly political organization, working structure formed by silos such as dev, it, test, ops. The context exposes all the inadequacies of the traditional structure and working principles in the day and age of modern technology and practices. It drives home the points talked about in Agile development and modern DevOps practices. The main theme where the book revolves around are the 5 Ideals of Modern day technology product development. The 5 Ideals are: 1. Locality and Simplicity : It is about building solutions...

Tipping Point is a book authored by Malcom Gladwell and it was published in the early 2000s. The book talks about some of the little events planned or unplanned it may be, which makes something hugely scalable and reaches epidemic magnitude. There are certain little things which causes the impact of an event to "tip over" to cause an impact to a big population. According to the author, some of the principles which causes tipping over are  as follows: 1. Impact of the messenger : The persons carrying the message of the event or product plays a great role in causing an epidemic. If the messenger is a charismatic person who is energetic and sincere, the message becomes epidemic. Paul Revere - an American colonist in 1776 spread the message of an impeding British attack and roused the people in the surrounding suburbs of Boston to prepare and defend. Eventually the colonist succeeded in thwarting the attempts of British. Paul Revere is quoted as an example of a "Connec...