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Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul At Work
Work and career are important parts of one's life, whether one is building a business, employed in a call centre, or practicing medicine. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work has gathered a rich treasure chest of experiences and inspiring tales that share the daily courage, compassion and creativity that occur in workplaces everywhere.
The 101 stories in this book will encourage and recharge you with tales of heartwarming camaraderie, inspirational breakthroughs, courageous leadership and synergetic teamwork. This powerful book gives you new options, new ways to succeed and, above all, a new love and appreciation for yourself, your job and those around you.
The 101 stories in this book will encourage and recharge you with tales of heartwarming camaraderie, inspirational breakthroughs, courageous leadership and synergetic teamwork. This powerful book gives you new options, new ways to succeed and, above all, a new love and appreciation for yourself, your job and those around you.
392 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Jack Canfield
1,286 books1,748 followersJack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 124 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
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April 19, 2012
This is my first interaction with the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, a set of books I was always sceptical about from the beginning; I’ve never bought a copy to date, a personal bias as it is the genre of self help books, so when an opportunity came to try my hand at reading it to know what it entails, I clicked on the blogadda review button. That in short is how I got hold of this book and started reading it.
As the snippet goes, the book has 101 stories divided into 13 sections with respect to the specific areas for the Indian or any working soul. This demarcation is helpful for a reader as they can choose which section is relevant to them and make a mental note as to how to read the book. Therefore, directional in reading.
Narrative wise, it is linear so to speak, a reader can start from the cover and end at the blurb. However, a better way to read it, is try your luck – remove the book mark (hope all of you use bookmarks, Flipkart gives you reasons for their use always ) and open randomly at a page; you’ll find a story– the end or the beginning (rarely does a story in this collection cross 3 sides) and then direct yourself, that’s what a couple of my friends (and I) did when they saw this book lying on my table this last one week. It takes hardly 5 minutes to finish a tale and move on to the next, therefore, reader friendly and a page mover … in a matter of 10-15 minutes, we would have finished quarter of the book! And this is no exaggeration.
The stories are short, they are easy reading — when I say easy, I mean you can read them anywhere, without putting a thought to them, straight from the heart, and uncomplicated… (no reading between and beyond the lines skills required), but relatable (hence, quotidian in theme), because we would have faced such incidents in ours or others lives. They are life experiences, “small miracles that attract readers” (Farmania, from the Editor’s note to this book) as written by or narrated to people, all deriving optimistic waves from the incidents and transferring them on to a reader.
Observation: The books looks loosely epistolary in structure. There is no direct address to the reader, however, the names of the writers of the piece is at the end, and in italics.
I happened to read many of the stories in the bus yesterday, and in an hour I was done with as many as 15 stories. Nevertheless, each story gave an impulse to live, it was a window to somebody else’s lived experience, a problem and a solution that came out of a practical situation and how they solved it with help from within them, family, friends & strangers. Therefore, for me on a personal note, reading the stories was akin to watching a film with a happy ending.
Recommended, of course, but not my type of book. I need some more meat to chew in a book… the self help books and movies such as Zoya Aktar’s second venture “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – I have similar issues with them.”
As the snippet goes, the book has 101 stories divided into 13 sections with respect to the specific areas for the Indian or any working soul. This demarcation is helpful for a reader as they can choose which section is relevant to them and make a mental note as to how to read the book. Therefore, directional in reading.
Narrative wise, it is linear so to speak, a reader can start from the cover and end at the blurb. However, a better way to read it, is try your luck – remove the book mark (hope all of you use bookmarks, Flipkart gives you reasons for their use always ) and open randomly at a page; you’ll find a story– the end or the beginning (rarely does a story in this collection cross 3 sides) and then direct yourself, that’s what a couple of my friends (and I) did when they saw this book lying on my table this last one week. It takes hardly 5 minutes to finish a tale and move on to the next, therefore, reader friendly and a page mover … in a matter of 10-15 minutes, we would have finished quarter of the book! And this is no exaggeration.
The stories are short, they are easy reading — when I say easy, I mean you can read them anywhere, without putting a thought to them, straight from the heart, and uncomplicated… (no reading between and beyond the lines skills required), but relatable (hence, quotidian in theme), because we would have faced such incidents in ours or others lives. They are life experiences, “small miracles that attract readers” (Farmania, from the Editor’s note to this book) as written by or narrated to people, all deriving optimistic waves from the incidents and transferring them on to a reader.
Observation: The books looks loosely epistolary in structure. There is no direct address to the reader, however, the names of the writers of the piece is at the end, and in italics.
I happened to read many of the stories in the bus yesterday, and in an hour I was done with as many as 15 stories. Nevertheless, each story gave an impulse to live, it was a window to somebody else’s lived experience, a problem and a solution that came out of a practical situation and how they solved it with help from within them, family, friends & strangers. Therefore, for me on a personal note, reading the stories was akin to watching a film with a happy ending.
Recommended, of course, but not my type of book. I need some more meat to chew in a book… the self help books and movies such as Zoya Aktar’s second venture “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – I have similar issues with them.”
February 2, 2013
First and last chicken soup series that I have read : http://www.anureviews.com/chicken-sou...
March 16, 2013
Some stories were really touching..made me cry..
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