Interesting readings

I generally don’t post any book reviews or my recent learnings, however my experience after reading the following books forced me to share my take on these three interesting books . The month of October when I caught up with my promise to read at least one book per week.

1.????? No Rules Rules : Netflix and the cultural of Reinvention

2.????? The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

3.????? Nehru’s first recruit : The diplomats who built Independent India's Foreign Policy

These books provide a history of three huge institutions and their culture shaped and influenced by their respective leaders and its journey of survival and resurgence over its critical time.

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No Rules Rules tells a wonderful story of evolution of its unique corporate culture at Netflix, accenting the importance of flexibility, innovation, and a high-performance environment. The book is Co-authored by Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and business professor Erin Meyer.

The book outlines how Netflix has continuously strived to build a) a culture of freedom by empowering its employees at all levels by providing significant autonomy and setting up high accountability expectations b) Encouraging environment of balanced freedom and responsibilities which promotes innovative thinking and risk-taking abilities c) feedback loops while embracing openness and fairness

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The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power explores aggressive expansion strategies and how it emerged as a global powerhouse across A to Z industries. The book further critically analyzes Amazon’s operations, scales, aggressive posturing and its impact on the market across the countries and society too.

By reading the book, We can understand the ?A) strategic moves which enabled Amazon to grow at this faster rate across sectors like Retail, cloud computing, entertainment and the logistics at the expense of ?competitors and the traditional business models. B) Its unique corporate culture, shaped by its leader Jeff Bezos , putting emphasis on the continuous innovations , customer obsession and the willingness to take a risk with established legal/ regulatory frameworks and its impact on its global employee strength c) Its highly contested and controversial practices like aggressive pricing strategies, market manipulation and logistics capabilities d) social impacts on the smaller businesses, innovative startups and its monopolistic behaviors

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Nehru's First Recruit by Kallol Bhattacharjee is my favorite among these three books which narrates into the life and influence of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, through the lens of his early political recruit and his continued efforts to build its foreign policy by keeping into consideration its nascent stage, economic conditions and priorities of keeping India relevant.

I would like to refer to this book for those who have an interest in understanding Nehru and his profound impact on early formative years of India and its global outlook.