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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Times are tumultuous; each day brings in new challenges. Economies, businesses and individuals are tossed around in this chaos. Yet the more things change, the more they remain the same.
In The Second Arrow, the author walks through the transformation journeys of three centurion organizations, reliving these learnings to come up with a navigation kit to cruise through the chaos. This toolkit teaches us to embrace uncertainty and how to survive, evolve and thrive through disruptions. The book talks about the simple values of doing the right things and taking each day at a time and the lessons learned by the author in the trenches of corporate life and practiced at boardrooms. It captures the priceless experience of having been there and done that.
Amitabh Ray
Every email is answered and every message is replied to, regardless of who has sent it. It runs over a few hundred a day. Everyone has his cell number and email ID. That’s Amitabh Ray, the MD of Ericsson Global Services.
A people’s man all the way, Amitabh has the unique experience of being part of teams that played crucial roles in the transformation journeys of three centurion organizations – PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and Ericsson. With a career spanning over three decades, his journey through these organizations has been equally exciting. Rising through the ranks, Amitabh has played every role – from the junior-most employee to having a seat at the board level. It gives him an enviable view of operations, from the trenches executing the plan to the war-rooms, where strategies are decided.
The Second Arrow is an inspirational tale of a small-town boy, who didn’t aim for success. It became a by-product of giving his best in every assignment, which is the only mantra Amitabh lives by every day, taking each day at a time. Failures didn’t crush his heart, and achievements didn’t go to his head. Amitabh, perhaps, is the most approachable leader of a global organization, who always has time to listen to his people – every one of them.
