The Professional
The Professional is Subroto Bagchi’s most deeply-felt book. Bagchi’s first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur, shared his story of building a company. His second bestseller, Go Kiss the World, was the story of his life, a motivation to young people that anyone can achieve. But as Subroto Bagchi says: ‘Go Kiss the World did not provide a toolkit.’
In The Professional he gives us his knowledge, based on his lifelong experience, of what it takes to be a professional, what qualities you need to become a great professional, and what are the challenges of the future a professional must be prepared for. Most importantly, he asks, and gives answers, to the toughest question every professional faces: Is what I am going to do now, faced with a difficult decision and multiple options, the professional choice to make?
In a world where a ’sub-prime crisis’ and a ‘Satyam saga’ were incomprehensible; where the global economic meltdown has affected the livelihoods of millions of people; where companies and individuals are routinely revealed to have made unprofessional choices, The Professional provides the explicit and implicit code of conduct-the boundaries which separate a skilled individual from a professional.
Read The Professional and find the power within you to acquire the cutting-edge required for the twenty-first century workplace and gain entry into the club of professionals.
Author bio:
Subroto Bagchi is Vice Chairman and Co-founder of MindTree Ltd. Till 2008, Subroto was its Chief Operating Officer, a role he stepped down from to become its Gardener. His work involves co-innovating with MindTree’s customers, tending the top 100 minds in the organization and serving its fifty communities of practice. He is also Chairman of MindTree’s Innovation Council. His earlier books, The High-Performance Entrepreneur (Penguin Portfolio, 2006) and Go Kiss the World (Penguin Portfolio, 2008) were bestsellers and received critical acclaim.
Subroto is married to writer Susmita Bagchi and they have two daughters, Neha and Niti.
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Mr.Bagchi,
I am currently reading your book. I had a question which I wanted to ask you. In the Part I - Integrity - Doctor, Heal Thyself - you have mentioned that Mr.Amit Kumar should have asked 4 questions before taking this step.
But I want to know that if he would have thought before doing this then he would not have gone to this extent. His sub-concious mind was covered with greed and because of which he was not able to differentiate between good and bad.
I totally agree with you that if people ask those questions before taking any decision then they take the right one.
We realise the mistakes only when someone stronger than us points it to us and proves it. Till then we dominate the smaller ones and keep doing the same.
Please tell me if I am wrong.
Hello Sir,
I have read all your books and these have very inspiring effect on me. Regarding values/character, I struggle to understand whether a person has control…
There are some who inspite of the circumstances show exemplary behavior at the same time there are some who inspite of everything going for them behave crass..
Feel indebted to you for giving us such inspiring works..
Thanks a lot.
Hrishikesh