Manoj's Review on Books

In the fag end of 20th century, when single tenant proprietary software was widely prevalent, Marc came up with the idea of multitenancy architecture delivered through internet as a medium. The approach of several customers running on the same server on a concurrent basis came to be known as multi-tenancy, resulting in efficient resource utilization. The approach was widely adopted and cloud terminology was born thereby creating an industry in itself.  Salesforce happened to be a revolution in the software industry, turning out to be one of the fastest SaaS companies to scale from zero to billion dollars in revenue within 10 years time. Marc would have felt that managing such high speed growth would have been a massive but delightful problem to have. The problem of high growth will always be a desirable proposition rather than stagnant or gloomy forecasts.   Marc’s bold marketing initiatives are worth taking a note, for instance the no software logo was a path breaking pi...

My life in full is a sparkling biography of how much an individual can accomplish despite humble middle class background rooted in a city of Chennai, India which is not known for corporate women leaders. From a US citizen perspective, Indira is a women of colour from a third world country and practically possess no chance of a seat in a leadership position in fortune 50 company, let alone the possibility of attaining the crown.    Indira, true to the title of the book, narrates her entire life right from childhood days, born to deeply cultural brahmin couple who emphasized on education, her grandfather who stimulated her intellectual thought process, growing along with siblings who were exceptionally bright themselves, masters in IIM Calcutta, initial stint in an organization focused on wholesale textiles market, moving over for her second masters in Yale, meeting her husband Raj and driving through her experience in BCG, Motorola, ABB and finally her point of destiny whi...