Many years ago, when I was starting my undergraduate studies, some of the industry folks that I talked to recommended me to read Harvard Business Review to improve my business skills. Maybe - the industry folks thought correctly that the tech skills imparted in college does not matter while biz skills stay with a person for a longer time. I probably didnt understand the value at that time.
My dad took pains to enroll me into a decent library (SIMA library in Race Course Road). One look into the book- and the jargons totally put me off. I hardly understood the articles (not that I am dumb - but then, to expect someone coming out of a high school where emphasis was just on mugging and not on understanding the concepts - it was indeed a big deal).
These were days when digitial activism was just starting in India and the costs were prohibitive for leisure browsing for a middle class guy at that time. That meant that certain knowledge would be outside my grasp for then.
Few years thence, I am now able to analyze any HBR article through tonnes of blogs- giving varied perspective. Just that now - given work pressure, time is such a crunch!
