The teenage can be extremely unpredictable and almost anything can happen. Sergey Brin and Larry Page's encounter at Stanford University in their early twenties brought about Google.Ĭonsidering such events, it can easily be said that teens can act as a catalyst to the growth of the society. Other Books by the Author: Among the other books Subroto Bagchi has authored are the highly popular ‘Go Kiss the World: Life Lessons for the Young Professional’ (published by Penguin Portfolio), a book that traces Bagchi’s journey from small town Odisha to the pinnacle of the corporate world ‘The Professional’ (Published by Penguin), which deals with the qualities that one needs to become a professional ‘MBA at 16: A Teenager’s Guide to Business’ (Published by Penguin), which takes the smart teenager on an exciting voyage of discovery and ‘The Professional Companion: How to make the best of your workplace skills’ (published by Portfolio), a do-it-yourself workbook designed to equip the reader with a wider skill set.Steve Jobs encounter with Wozniak when they were both 16 led to the founding of Apple. After all, our lives are enterprises and each one of us is the CEO of Me Inc.” he signs off. “These are equally applicable to any institution, and I can even say, individual. “The last is particularly important because there is a need to focus on doing ordinary things extraordinarily well when extraordinary events overtake the enterprise,” muses the author.īagchi insists that the core idea of scale, its associated attributes and challenges are not unique to for-profit businesses. ‘The Elephant Catcher’ is neatly divided into six chapters, each dealing with a specific aspect of the business of scaling up: the need to build comfort with the idea of scale scaling the business scaling the intellect scaling of reputation scaling the people and scaling adversity. “The twin experience taught me that start-ups must be designed for high performance and it is possible to do so,” Bagchi says.
Talking about ‘The High Performance Entrepreneur’, which has become a must-read for every aspiring entrepreneur, the author says it was based on his own experience of a failed attempt at launching a company when he was 28 and then co-founding Mindtree when he was 42. “Our struggle after 2007, when Mindtree was listed in the stock exchange, and the transformative experiences along the way had a lot to do with the challenge of building growth and scale,” he says.Īsked if his new book has anything for or from the state, Bagchi says “There is, in fact, a lot of Odisha in the book and I hope it makes my state proud.”
The author says ‘The Elephant Catcher’ synthesizes his learning over the last few years on a spectrum of issues around the core idea of scaling up.
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