Estudiante De La Vida: 2013

Is your organisation acting like a scrooge and cutting costs? Is it limiting wage hikes and taking away perks? Is it introducing measures to save a penny here and a penny there in the bills? If that is the case, your organisation may be one of those contributing to the continuation of the 'Great Recession'.

Somewhere in the year 2008, the global economy went into a recession like one that the world had never seen before. Yes, the Great Depression of the 30s was 'great' but it wasn't global, the impact was limited to Europe and to some extent to the Americas. But what happened this time was truly global. Some of the leading investment banks of the western world had to be sold off. The governments had to step in to protect the leading financial organisations of their countries using the taxpayers' money. There were widespread layoffs across the world. There was a global recruitment freeze and even MBAs from the top business schools could not get jobs matching their profiles.

What was the reason behind all this? Experts gave their narratives which... Read more>>

Title:

Book Review: Games people play - The psychology of human relationships

Rating:

Green

Genre:

Psychology, Organisational Behaviour

Author:

Eric Berne

Publisher:

Penguin

The Book:

The book, written by a professional psychiatrist and the discoverer of Transactional Analysis himself, on application of transactional analysis in everyday life through the identification and treatment of 'Games'. The first few chapters cover the underlying theory and then we move to the more practical and interesting part on Games.

Comments:

This book is a good read for anyone wherever he or she is and whatever he or she does. The book is quite interesting as it deals with the day to day life of every human and that should encourage people who usually avoid 'heavy' books to read this book.

I would not guarantee that someone reading would like, or even understand, the book. Nor can I guarantee that everything in there still holds true. But even so, this book would prove to be useful to the reader because it would enable the reader to view humans from an altogether different dimension, which in itself would be a great boon.