Pegasus Book Club

The Secret is book version of highly successful motivational movie by the same name. The editor claims that the book contains the ‘secret’ that existed from time immemorial and was kept confined to a few people. The list of the people who knew the secret includes great minds of art, science, politics, religion, and so on. This book reveals the secret and makes it available to all, so that they can transform their lives and achieve success and happiness.

The secret is a principle called the law of attraction and uses the power of one’s mind to transform one’s life. The book explains the principle and shows how to use it to change your life. The book contains quotations by the ‘masters’ (the people who have successfully used the law of attraction) and real life stories. The contributors of the book include highly successful men and women of our times and the list includes John Assaraf, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Lee Brower, Jack Canfield, Dr. John F. Demartini, Marie Diamond, Mike Dooley, Bob Doyle, Hale Dwoskin, Morris Goodman, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Hagelin, Bill Harris, Dr. Ben Johnson, Loral Langemeier, Lisa Nichols, Bob Proctor, James Arthur Ray, David Schirmer, Marci Shimoff, Dr. Joe Vitale, Dr. Denis Waitley, Neale Donald Walsch, and Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.

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This book is not about coding; it is about the career beyond coding. Many IT professionals in their quest to learn the latest and hottest technology chase the unattainable all their life as the IT field, what is sexy and hot are outdated in a couple of months. So today’s hottest technology will be obsolete by the time one learns and master it. So people get frustrated, depressed as their efforts to move ahead fail and their careers stall and deteriorate.

But there are a few professionals who are not affected by the changes in technology or advancements in the filed. Irrespective of the changes in their environment their career graph is always going up as they continuously and steadily climb the corporate ladder to reach the top positions. In this book, Rajesh Setty, an IT professional who have been in this field for more than two decades, explains the secrets of the success of the top performers.

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Steve Jobs is one of early pioneers and a cult personality who played a significant part in shaping the computing industry. He dropped out off college to start Apple computers, making it a successful business venture only to be thrown out of the company he co-founded.

This book tells the story of Steve Jobs, his early days, his creation of Apple computers, his meteoric rise to become one of most popular personalities of the computing industry, his devastating fall from the top and from his own company, his fight back, acquisition of Pixar animation studios, how he again became the chairman of Apple computers and how he took it from success to success by continuously inventing, innovating and always staying miles ahead of his competition.

Drawing on a wide range of sources in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Jeffrey Young, author of the first-ever Jobs biography, and coauthor William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple in a Silicon Valley garage and detail Jobs’s meteoric rise as the prototypical digital wunderkind and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely.

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Starting one’s own company is the dream of thousands of people. But starting a business, transforming the ideas into products and services, building a team, getting finance, marketing the products and services, attracting and retaining customers, making the business a success, sustaining the success and growth is a very hard and arduous task that requires creativity, imagination, determination, hard work, knowledge of the business, and some amount of luck.

Starting a company and making it capable of surviving and thriving in this brutally competitive world requires a lot of effort and one has to do a lot of things right—right at the first time as you might not get a second chance. In this context, the experiences of people who have started and succeeded, the lessons they learned, the wisdom they gained, etc. have great value. These knowledge and wisdom could help a person who is planning to start his won business or a person who have just started her business.

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