Book as a mentor: The Elephant at the Dinner Table

Books can mentor and coach. If you believe that, and you're a aspiring management executive in any industry, 'The Elephant At The Dinner Table' is a MUST READ. 

Amit takes a phenomenological approach to document all his life in the form of this book. He has created an assortment of his corporate experiences in multiple roles at multiple organisations with a host of very respectable leaders in the industry. I've always known Amit as a learnability champion, and sharpening his CQ - Curiosity Quotient and prodding others to do likewise. Using that, he has carefully tied his cuts of stories with theory and contemporary research; further, he has served 'em nicely to the readers with insights and provides space for reflections too. So, whether you are looking for bullet-point learning, or wisdom from stories-told, or practical reflections - this book is sure to meet each of the learning styles.

With this book, you get a scoop of everything corporate; but importantly, you'd find a navigator of corporate culture and a mentor. With a mix of both head and heart, this book is performance-focused, emphasizing judiciously on all that it takes, narrated through lessons from personally vulnerable moments – misgivings with various pursuits, experiments, own behaviors and setting 'em right. Also, discover some good assessments along your read viz., Gallup Strengths Finder, BRIEF, among others. 

Many learnings stay from this book for me; one that I consciously practice is / also shareable from this book is: reframe 'weaknesses' as 'stretch area'. And then you see how your perspectives, virtues, and behaviors realign and recraft for different and unbelievable results. 

As I summarize, I reckon all these lessons are life lessons, and it's a huge loss to confine 'em as 'corporate lessons'. Urge you to pick it up now and make best of what lies ahead for you. An elephant never forgets.. I hope you don't too.