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What inspired you to write 'Adapt: Your First Step Towards Success That Lasts' and choose Ram as your central character?
Growing up, I loved writing and to tell stories. During my Executive MBA program, I got to read The Goal by Eli.Goldratt and I was instantly in love with its format where a business concept is intertwined in the backdrop of a story. As I became a manager, I was very particular about presenting a vision with clear objectives and then documenting the progress towards those goals and measuring their overall impacts to the team’s performance. The combination of all the 3 factors, led me towards the idea of Adapt sometime during the 2013-14 timeframe. I came to act on it when Covid stuck when I had more time at home due to travel restrictions.
In 'Adapt', Ram's journey as a senior manager is pivotal. How much of this is drawn from your own experiences in the tech industry?
All of it is actually drawn from my personal experience in the tech industry. The tech industry is very dynamic and I have been lucky to be at the forefront of many important technological upheavals. Right from the Mainframe to Client-Server architecture to the advent of Smartphones, associated Flash, Lithium-ion battery technology to Cloud Computing and now to Accelerated Computing, I have been at the forefront, having a ring side view as these changes unfold and their profound implications in our day to day lives. It is critical to have the right mindset and management philosophy to handle both the volume and velocity of these changes to successfully achieve our objectives.