As one who has experienced the joys of work in the ‘third phase of life’, I found Tamara Erickson's book a delight. She reaffirms what one has done over the past 15-years in the stage that Hindu philosophy calls vanprastha, and puts an academic spin on it. Tamara Erickson, a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organisations and the changing workforce, has written for...

How and why some nations become rich while others lag

On 26 January 1817, Thomas Malthus wrote in a letter to his fellow economist David Ricardo that “…the causes of the wealth and poverty of nations (is) the grand object of all enquiries in Political Economy.” Indeed, there is, as yet, no conclusive evidence for why some countries are able to adapt to new technologies and manage to stay...

How fund managers of Harvard and Yale endowments have beaten even the best institutional investors

For years, large university endowments, like Harvard and Yale, have consistently managed to outperform the market and hold their own during market declines, managing to do this with lesser risk exposure. This book is all about enabling investors to play catch-up with the investment ideas of...