This file includes a summary and a critical analysis of the book. this also incudes a intro about the author and its relevance in today's world

1. B O O K R E V I E W
S U C C E S S
F O R M U L A
D E C O D E D
D R . M A T H E W M A M P R A
DIPTASHREE MONDAL
MFM, SEM II

3. W H A T T H E M E S A R E F O U N D I N T H E S T O R Y ?
W H A T A R E S T R E N G H T S A N D W E A K N E S S E S O F T H E B O O K ?
Dr. Mathew Mampra, an award winning successful
entrepreneur for the last three decades is also a
designer, author, researcher and a mentor. He has
three post graduate degree in commerce, Marketing
Management and in Human Resource Management.
He is a Ph.D holder in Management Studies and is
presently the CEO of BPC power group. His
entrepreneurial pursuits started in 1988 when he
founded the BPC power group in Bengaluru.
Following that he became director at Rockman
Finance and Investment Ltd. in 1998. He also co-
founded ICIER-India, the Indian chapter of
International Consortium for innovation and
Entrepreneurship Research and Mentor Max
Incubation Pvt. Ltd.
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R
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4. W H A T T H E M E S A R E F O U N D I N T H E S T O R Y ?
W H A T A R E S T R E N G H T S A N D W E A K N E S S E S O F T H E B O O K ?
In this book “Success Formula Decoded”, Dr. Mampra
shares 30 tips that pave way towards assured success.
This book is appropriate for those, who have a strong
desire to be successful in their chosen field of activity,
wants to enjoying the happiness and comforts of life.
This book is a collection of priceless tips that has been
handpicked by the author, all the lessons are from his
business, social and personal life. This is surely gonna
serve as a handbook and guide for anybody who
wishes to attain and balance growth, success and
happiness.
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5. W H A T T H E M E S A R E F O U N D I N T H E S T O R Y ?
The author aims to motivate his readers on their
potential path to success through this book. In this
book he shares 30 secret tips via 30 chapters with
practical insights to help his readers, achieve success
while maintaining a peaceful life. In this book he
shares a lot of tips that can help his readers to be
successful. The author also talks about the hard and
difficult times that many successful people comes
across and mentioned his own take on it. He gives a
lot of advices on this as well as motivates his readers
to strive and work hard. He also urges his readers to
take failures as an opportunity to improve , learn from
your own mistakes rather than getting disheartened.
He also explains the need for a well managed, aligned,
motivated relationship with your colleagues. Not only
this he also list out six important tips that are
necessary for work relationship. Importance of
marriage and family also explained also, related that
to success in career. He tired to motivated his reader
to make small and simple sacrifice that can bring
more success both in personal as well as professional
life.
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chapters are dedicated to improve interpersonal skills
like politeness, communication skills, confidence, hard
work. Many professional, and structured list of tips the
author worked upon which is also provided in the
majority of the chapters. He also briefly talks about
very common emotion like jealousy and negative
feeling that people chose to refrain talking about. One
can’t ignore negative thoughts, instead, one can try
indulging themselves more in positive thoughts and
should try to dominate your negative thoughts. He
also taught us the importance of spirituality and
ethical values. Importance of ethical business should
be taught at an very early age as it promotes a better
work environment and one of the ingredients to
success.
This book can be beneficial for people since it
motivates them to come out of their shell and talk
constructive steps to embark their own journey to
success. this book not only helps us to visualize
success but hand holds us throughout the process.
teaches us to be clear about our goals and the ways to
achieve it. A complete Success means good health,
wealth, happiness and family.
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He started almost every chapter with a list of quotes from
well-known personalities, this in turn helped us relate
more to every topic. Through chaptalization he has
covered all the aspect of personal and professional
development. Some of the chapters were dedicated to
enhance and improve our behavior and personality.
These chapters includes habits of achievers, art of
keeping cool, find bliss within, succeed socially,
managing jealousy are to name a few. While some were
written by taking a more technical approach to achieve
goal , these chapters were titled as managing efficiency
and effectiveness, succeed ethically, Pursued to succeed,
dealing with disappointment, practices that will make
you successful at work, take care of your customers and
many more. Others were written to focus on your family
life ,those are be happily married and be successful, enjoy
the company of your children, family and achieving work-
life balance, to name a few.
There were a few chapters which were for a specific
audience, for example, a separate chapter was exclusively
for people who believes in a Higher Force, this was the
chapter 18, "hard work alone is not enough".
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In this chapter, the author talks about the invisible force
that he referred as "God", who is considered to be the
catalyst. This powerful catalyst when combined with hard
work results in making people succeed. He also said
everyone work hard on their own level, so we should not
only relied on hard work but also on power of "God". Also,
we should keep doing good so that the power can work
for us.
In the book, the author gives advice on maintaining a
happy lifestyle keeping all age groups
under consideration. He chose to explore the wide variety
of relationships and professions that majority of us are a
part of throughout our lifetime- from a married partner,
to a sibling ,a professional office colleague or a parent. He
also shed light on the importance of each and every role
in shaping our life. He also connected professional
success with family well being, similarly 'The ONE Thing'
by Gary Keller also said no one can succeed alone.
Time and again he also gave tips and advice with an aim
to guide people to grow in personal as well as
professional front. He also emphasized on all things that
are capable of making huge differences.
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This includes the right etiquette of addressing or
interacting with someone as well as tips on dressing
up to give a positive impression to name a few.
The author dedicated a chapter on ' Learning the Art
of Positive Communication', he believes
communication skills plays an important role in
career building and it gives the ability to convey not
only the positive massage but also a negative message
in a positive way. Also, gave five quick tips to have
positive impact while communicating.
He also urges his audience to not be afraid of a
paradigm shift, by taking one step ahead and not
being hesitant in taking a little risk, also insist us not to
be a "slacker" but to get out of our comfort zone to let
the amazing thing happen. This little risk not only help
to attract positivity both personally and professionally,
but also will help in becoming a role model. In
addition to that a lot of light was put on the
Importance of interacting with people, being social
which also plays a vital role in achieving success. Also,
provides a easy guide to deal with social anxiety and
shyness.
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Dr. Mathew did not hesitate in talking about emotions
like Jealousy that one might experience within oneself
or through someone else externally, instead he
addressed It and also gave advice to manage such
emotion regardless of which side you're on. He also
advised us to preserve and cherish our uniqueness.
never to strip it down for a momentary validation.
A very detailed chapter on customers, their nature,
Importance and on how to take care of them was also
worked upon, which has the potential of being very
much beneficial for the readers. He also answered
nine question that will help anyone to they their
customer better. Employer plays an important role in
the success of any organization. So, he has shared six
successful tips that will help the employer to built a
troop of happy employee.
Towards the end of the book the author has
dedicated Last three chapters of the book on
motivation and that extra push to achieve your
ultimate goal.
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Also paid a lot of importance on self-care, how it's very
much essential to love yourself, frequently talk to
yourself to declutter your mind which helps in gaining
clarity and some perspective. He also remined us not
to give up and to enjoy both work and leisure time. In
addition, told us be kind, forgiving and always thrive
for excel both in virtue and truth.
In totality, he took a very real1stic approach in a hope
to inspire his audience through his book, making
people realize that the road to success is not always
sunshine and rainbows but its full of a lot of failures
and thunderstorms. It is important to learn from those
hit and trials to reach your ultimate goal instead of
losing hope during the process.
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Chapter 14- " You are a Unique Work of Art"
This is one of my favorite chapter from the book.
Author, beings this chapter with a story of a plum who
changed himself as per the requirement and later
regraded his decision. He also encourage his readers
to be true to their oneself and not to strip down their
originality just to gain recognition. Everybody, is in this
Planet for a purpose, and one will be able to fulfill that
purpose only with their uniqueness. So, one should
cherish its uniqueness and originality. He site the
example of Gandhi, Krishna & Christ , that they were
not accepted by many people but they came in this
World for a purpose. So, there will be people who will
accept all your uniqueness and will treat you like the
king of the world. He also said one should always
embrace their uniqueness and should never trade it
for momentary validation. He want his readers to be
nothing but "Just YOU".
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W H A T A R E S T R E N G H T S A N D W E A K N E S S E S O F T H E B O O K ?
In our modern world, we are continuously desire to be
like our favorite influencer or blogger, want to be like
our peer group or want to be our parents ideal kid. In-
between all these we lost our uniqueness and chasing
to be like someone else. In this modern world , we are
only craving for perfection and recognition from the
moment we are born. This chapter is a reminder to
world, that our purpose can be fulfilled only being true
to oneself and by cherishing our uniqueness. So,
instead seeking for momentary validation, one should
highlight ones uniqueness.
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14. W H A T T H E M E S A R E F O U N D I N T H E S T O R Y ?
In the amid of pandemic, we are are fighting against
deadly corona virus as well as trying to run our
economy and employment being the most affected
one. Many have lost their jobs and others are trying to
cope up with 'work from home' model, this have
created a lot of tension among individuals. This book
has the right set of tips and advice to come out of this
current situation. This book talks about some
important skills like patience, risk taking, hard work,
Efficacy and productivity, art of communication and
persuasion, 'never give up'. Apart from all these it also
talks about interpersonal skills like politeness, body
language, facial expression, professionalism, self love,
spiritualty. Author has also highlighted the importance
of family, marriage , child and about work life balance.
This results in mental peace and helped us to invest
our time and efforts in things that matters. All these
practices will help us to succeed in future endeavors.
This also teaches us a more holistic live a successful
happy life.
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