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Businessworld.in: The Instant Pick-up Guide

Anjana Saproo
September 13, 2010
URL: http://businessworld.in/bw/2010_09_04_The_Instant_Pickup_Guide.html

'Happiness At Work' discusses practical ways for employees to achieve succees in work and personal life by disregarding conventional ideas of positive thinking and multitasking

If your morning coffee is not giving you the much-need kick, try this self-help book from motivation guru Srikumar Rao. It’s guaranteed to make you feel all is well. Happiness At Work takes on the usual clichés that dominate our routine life, such as the ‘power of positive thinking’. Rao says such thinking creates more stress rather than dissipating it. His approach is startlingly different. For one, he feels multitasking is a big waste of time.

The book has 35 chapters on simple, practical ways to bring the mojo back in your life, and the examples are funny enough to make the reader comfortable and drive the point home well. The book starts off with why you need a paradigm shift, and goes on to trace the root of all your problems and what to do when fear strikes. It is about the much-feared ‘God’ in employees’ life - the boss. He compares him to the ‘FedEx guy’, explaining that a boss is an instrument of delivery and not someone who does, or does not, give goodies such as raises or promotions. The best part of the book is that it works not just at work, but in other areas of life as well. Each chapter ends with a DIY (do-it-yourself), which is a good push in the right direction.

Rao’s concepts are laced with wisdom from Buddhism and individuals such as legendary investor Warren Buffett and social scientist Nicholas Christakis. Rao is famous for his ‘creativity and personal mastery’ course at Columbia Business School. Like the course, the book also manages to cut through the daily grind and gives you a fresh perspective on the jungle of life.

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