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.
Mr. Bagchi is right as a professional the doctor if he had asked the right questions the first time he would have not committed such a big diagnostic blunder.
Sometimes the professional decisions are so critical that our lives depend on them and to see incompetent doctors not ask critical questions before diagnosing is criminal.
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
Hello Sir,
I have read your second best seller “Go Kiss the World”,I thankful to god to keep me alive to read such a wonderful book.While reading I felt the “importance of our parents”,later it turns me to change my opinion to the “importantance of the world our parents given to us”.
Correct me if im wrong.
Dear Mr Bagchi:
First of all thanks for writing such wonderful book. In fact sometimes it was confronting that I was not being Professional all the time but now I’m glad that I can take on being Professional and empower people around me to be that.
In fact I like the small part on the Un Professional , which gives easy access to be a professional by avoiding the points mentioned. I shared few of my thoughts on my blog (http://ragxblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/un-professional.html) and many have left interesting comments as well.
Once again , thanks for sharing your wisdom and observation with all of us.
With regards
RAGHAV
Hi Sir,
Ive’ been reading go kiss the world it is indeed motivating and a great learn s you read experience. Thanks for your thoughts. Would read The Prefessional in a while.
Regards,
Anuj
Dear Mr.Bagchi,
I just finished reading The professional. Since i have picked the book last week, i have unable to keep it back. The book is a perfect blend of psychology (organisational & individual), Philosophy and management.
This is a book, i wish to read again and again till i start following most of its contents.
Hopefully as mentioned in your book, i can become an inspiring reference to others.
Thanks for the lovely book.
regards,
Pradeep VAMANA
Student - Aerospace MBA (ESC Toulouse business school)
Toulouse, France.