Acknowledgement

I would like to thank my dear friends, Rajiv Mishra, Kishore Shenoi, and Pankaj Ghanshani for their encouragement, input, and critical feedback through the process of writing this book. They kept me going though the entire effort and got me un-stuck many a times.

My sincere thanks to Vijay Anand, who provided me the courage to go ahead and take this journey. Vijay is truly inspirational and one can learn a ton of management just by being around him. Vijay is a role model to many a managers including myself.

To my wife Seema and my sons Kunal and Karan for being so understanding all the time and giving me lessons on management every day. To my parents who taught me to follow my heart and never doubt my instincts. They are my pillars of strength.

Thanks to my first manager, Abhijeet Bhalla, who showed me the ropes and put his faith in me when very few would have. Thanks to my teams, past and present; to my managers in the past and present; to the organizations I worked for, and to my teachers in academics and in sports for teaching me all that I know today.

Finally, thanks to James Lumsden, my publisher at Packt for starting this effort on his visit to our campus and pushing me to get on with it. Thanks to the editors Amey Kanse, Kartikey Pandey, Ankita Shashi, and the project co-ordinators, Zainab Bagasrawala and Vishal Bodhwani for working with me on this book.