Saturday, December 29, 2007

Jagdish


Our kids took a picture of this book I've been reading by Jagdish Sheth, lately of Emory University outside Atlanta. I guess they thought the name was unique and needed to be made part of this year's Christmas chronicle.
I bought this book in Atlanta at our annual convention and started reading it 12/09/2004. I am now on page 245 of 272 and have not made it all the way through once yet, and I plan to read it again, and again.
There's a lot of thought-provoking content here for all of us who serve others on a professional basis. The focus is on advisors and consultants, but the precepts or concepts apply to all who have professional engagements.
I recommend this book highly; it is loaded. Especially a propos to our regional dialogue are the discussions of scarcity and abundance, of engineering and economics juxtaposed with the liberal arts, and of trust and integrity.

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for the recommendation, Tim - I love books that talk about this kind of thing from a human perspective and not how much money someone can make you. This sounds like one of those books. Happy New Year to you and Gloria and your family!

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  2. and a happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours, too, madame

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  3. Oh that is too funny!
    We always say "Goodnight Jugdish!"--it is from one of my all time fave Seinfeld episodes, circa 1997 I believe. It is the one where they all go to India for a wedding (hence the name: Jugdish/Jagdish) and the entire episode shows the events backwards--so at the beginning you see the most recent thing & the whole episode goes back to the very beginning so at the end you see what started it all--it is hilarious.

    That did not make much sense but trust me, it is so funny.

    So when I saw your book with that name on it, I wanted Kate to take my picture!!!
    :)

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  4. Moey, I've been known to laugh for a lot less than that--thanks for the background. That Jugdish character, he was probably the sidekick of Archie Patel & Veronica Singh? We used to know a guy--I think he was a Sikh--whose name was Kuldeep, and we could only remember it by associating it with Cool-Whip.

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  5. :) ahh..the Archie comics!
    hmmmm...I think we had someone at I.W.A. named Kameldeep Singh. And then there were 2 sisters named Chitra & Geetha Sivanadam.
    Or the boy in Katie's class...Srinivas (Srinny for short)!

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  6. Your question comes at a propitious time, Tim -- I am now of an age when only those who need to know my personal details will learn them. --Sandy

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  7. Ah, Managementprof, I know you must be just waiting for the day--subconsciously at least--when none of that matters any more, when age is neither a negative or a positive--it's something that just IS. What matters as time progresses are the health & functionality we enjoy and the relationships we have and are forming.

    Happy birthday, many more/much more of all the above.

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