A Book review

Chattanathan tells his stories of corporate world with almost romantic nostalgia. After decades of successfully operating in an extreme darwinian world, with its bell curves and hierarchy pyramids , Chattanathan still speaks of it in a very tender tone, like a veteran who has returned neither arrogant nor bitter. This tenderness comes because he doesn’t speak of battles, or valour, or weapons (He does, but only to add to the background.), but because he speaks of people, of soldiers as human beings. His stories are not of winning a corporate war at all cost, or of survival in a cut throat world, they are a reminder that even there all participants are human beings, and best way to touch them is to act like one. Being a trained corporate solider himself, he does emphasise on discipline, initiative, and motivation in his stories, but always subservient to the human aspect. His stories are nether of conquest nor of bitterness, they are stories of a journey that he claims is not as brutal as, sometimes, our preparation for the journey makes it out to be (blame parents, and schools, and business schools). And, then, he further claims that these people with their humanness intact turned out to be winners too in corporate world. Which, true or not, is very heartening to hear and to believe in.  Triumph of virtuous in real world. Heroes of our imaginations incarnating.

This book is a must for HR joining kit. Specially for trainees. A little book of poetry (And, there are poems too!) for future corporate soldiers, before they make transition from military school to the regiment and are led into battle. The book will soothe anxious souls of new soldiers heading for a life in a rough world. It will go a long way in keeping them human.

-Pulastya