Cricket Insights and Winning Lessons

It was a jam-packed session at Landmark, Forum mall where Harsha and Anita Bhogle addressed audience and answered their questions with utmost humility and poise making people feel comfortable and entertained with all his intelligent humor.

Harsha Bhogle, You meet him and sure to be enamored by his glib talking and his down to earth attitude. In my personal observation, I have found Marathi people in general to be very humble and simple people without a tinge of flamboyance. Harsha and his wife Anita are two such individuals who fit into this category of “humble, simple and non flamboyant people.

In his book launch in Bangalore, he made a point which reminds of his personality, “Generally, people make mistake of assuming polite people to lack aggression and aggressive people to be impolite. He broke the general misconception, by giving examples of Anil Kumble who is very polite but with full of aggression on field and M S Dhoni considered to be very aggressive player but extremely polite individual. Such presumption of “aggressive” being “non polite” and “polite” being “non-aggressive” is common malady which one should be beware of.

His and Anita’s book “The winning way” is incredible piece of work which is simple and fascinating. It gives lessons on success, failure and leadership in a context which people can relate very well to and this precisely is the “USP of book”. The examples from cricket, football, tennis and other sports make the book easy to read, help in correlating with real life examples and keeps the reader engaged. The parallels from sports and comparisons from Business makes it one of its kinds in the world of books where books on leadership are replete with on boring and unappealing winning themes and leadership messages.

Sometimes, the celebrity status of Harsha places all the focus and accolades on him and Anita sometimes doesn’t get that much credit for her contributions in this creation. It was very evident during book launch where almost all questions where directed to Harsha and rightly so as he this star attraction and I am sure all cricket insights in this book mostly come from his cricket mind.

Overall, full marks for this extremely well written, insightful and reasonably priced literary treasure.