Monday, October 12, 2009

The Quest For Success



I was fortunate last February as I was invited to attend one the Lecture Series of the 2008 Merdeka Award Recipient (Education & Community Category); YM Royal Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid entitled "The Quest for Success". It was held at KLCC Convec on 12 Fenruary 2009 from 2.00 - 5.00 pm. The program is jointly organised by PETRONAS & Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. YM Ungku talk about a lot of things but the most prominent taht I wish to share is on the 9 books that he suggested/recommended us to read.

Here's the full list :

01. Fit For Life Not Fat For Life (Harvey Diamond - 2003)
02. Thinking Course ( Enward de Bono - 1982)
03. The Mind Map Book (Tony Buzan - 1993)
04. Head First (Tony Buzan - 2000)
05. The 36 Strategies of the Chinese : Adapting An Ancient Chinese Wisdom to
the Business World (Wee Chow Hou & Lan Luh Luh - 1988)
06. The Art of War (Sun Xi (trans. R. L. Wing ) - 1988)
07. The Prince On the Art of Power (Niccolo Machiavelli - 1532) (trans. W. K. Marriot - 1908) (Introduced by Cary J. Nederman - 2007)
08. Leaders' Window (J. D. W. Beck & N. M. Yeager - 1994)
09. Level 5 Leadership (Jim Collins - HBR 2001)

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