The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness Book Review

Arooj Zeb;  Dr. Anjum Ihsan

doi:10.34260/jbt.v6i1.196

The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness Book Review

Journal of Business & Tourism ◽

10.34260/jbt.v6i1.196 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 303-311

Author(s):

Arooj Zeb ◽

Dr. Anjum Ihsan

Keyword(s):

Bill Gates ◽

The One

The book “Circles of Innovation” is written by Tom Peters who is called as the father of branding and a business guru. In this book Tom Peters has given us 15 discrete ideas that logically, systematically and coherently add up to the “one big idea” i.e. Innovation. Through 400 seminars in 47 states and 22 countries in five years, Peters has refined and reinvented his views on innovation. The whole idea of this book is either to be innovative or die. This book is a blend of thoughts, quotes and exclamation points which are very inspiring and thought provoking for the readers. Practical examples of successful businesses have been given which focus on innovation. This book is very inspiring as it has got blog graphics, facts and figures that sources range from Martha Steward to Bill Gates. This book is very helpful for those who want to know about how to bring innovation in the organization. The Circle of Innovation is for all those who run a business of any size; from a six-person department to a large business having 500 plus employees, it empowers the readers to transform their organizations by following the useful tips of innovation mentioned in this book. "No matter where you are in your career, this book is a must read. The younger your thinking, the more you’ll get out of it."

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Book Review: The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide

Reference & User Services Quarterly ◽

10.5860/rusq.55n1.68a ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

Calantha Tillotson

Keyword(s):

Information Literacy ◽

Time Management ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Traditional Learning ◽

Library Instruction ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The One ◽

Traditional Learning Environments

Based on their combined thirty years of experience in information literacy instruction, Heidi Buchanan and Beth McDonough speak honestly of the challenges and opportunities associated with one-shot library sessions and provide readers with practical, creative, and inspirational resources. The authors begin each chapter with an attention-grabbing title, such as “They never told me this in library school” and “There is not enough of me to go around!” After capturing the readers’ attention, they proceed to continually captivate readers which covering relevant topics, such as how to effectively collaborate with departmental instructors, how to create a meaningful session despite severe time constraints, how to utilize active learning activities to engage students, how to instruct in non-traditional learning environments, how to successfully assess instruction sessions, and how to efficiently follow time management strategies.

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“Pagan Christmas: Winter feast of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush” and the true frontiers of ‘Greater Peristan’

Acta Orientalia ◽

10.5617/ao.7672 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 79 ◽

Author(s):

Claus Peter Zoller

Keyword(s):

Geographical Area ◽

Review Article ◽

Cultural Dimension ◽

High Mountains ◽

Cultural Traditions ◽

Hindu Kush ◽

Northern Regions ◽

The One ◽

Indian Himalayas

As can be seen, the title and subtitle of the book under review are part of the title of the following review article. A normal book review starts with some sentences describing what the book is about, followed by a discussion what the reviewer particularly likes about the book, and then followed by bringing up anything the reviewer dislikes about it. This is then rounded up with some general observations and appraisals. This strategy is also a broad guideline for the first third of the following text. However, the text also oversteps considerably the boundaries of a standard book review for the following reasons: Augusto Cacopardo defines his ‘Peristan’2 as a culturally quite coherent area extending through the high mountains from northwestern Afghanistan throughout the northern regions of Pakistan to the southwestern border of Tibet.3 The traditional cultures of this ‘Peristan’ have Indo-Iranian and even Indo-European roots, yet they are, in his opinion, remarkably little affected by the high civilizations of India and pre-Islamic Iran.4 However, it is important to understand that ‘Peristan’ has, on the one hand, indeed preserved archaisms not found elsewhere in South Asia, but due to strong influence of Islam it has also simultaneously lost, or preserved only sporadically, cultural traditions still authentically preserved e.g. in the Indian Himalayas. Cacopardo’s analysis of the Kalasha winter feasts has a strong historical-cultural dimension and he repeatedly refers to cultural parallels in the Himalayas (see section 7. ‘The Hindus of the Himalayas’, pp. 235ff.). His observations on these parallels – which are absolutely justified – nevertheless also caused me to trespass the boundaries of a book review and extend it considerably into a review article. Since the true frontiers of ‘Greater Peristan’ enclose in my view a significantly larger geographical area than envisaged by the Cacopardo Brothers,5 the following article presents also very many data not found or discussed in the publication under review. In order to keep a clear overview of this long review article, it has been divided into four main sections. However, ‘Section I’ only follows after the ‘Preliminary remarks’ and the ‘Opening’:

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