Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons For The Young Professional

Go, kiss the world were Subroto Bagchi s blind mother s last words to him. These words became the guiding principle of his life. Subroto Bagchi grew up amidst what he calls the material simplicity of rural and small-town Orissa, imbibing from his family a sense of contentment, constant wonder, connectedness to a larger whole and learning from unusual sources. From humble beginnings, he went on to achieve extraordinary professional success, eventually co-founding MindTree, one of India s most admired software services companies. Through personal anecdotes and simple words of wisdom, Subroto Bagchi brings to the young professional lessons in working and living, energizing ordinary people to lead extraordinary lives. Go Kiss the World will be an inspiration to young India , and to those who come from small-town India, urging them to recognize and develop their inner strengths, thereby helping them realize their own, unique potential.

About The Author

Subroto Bagchi was born in a small town of Bolangir district of Odisha. He is a co-founder of  MindTree Ltd.,an international  IT consulting  company. In April 2008, he was redesignated as the "gardener" and in this role he will "repot, fertilize and weed and clip the human resources." He is the author of the books - Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons for the Young Professionals,The High Performance Entrepreneur and The Professional.

Book Plot 

It is an autobiography of Subroto Bagchi who is a well respected personality in Indian IT industry. He is one of the founders of MindTree."Go Kiss the World" is what his mother told him when she was on her deathbed. And that proved to be the inspiration for this book.Part I talks about his birth, childhood days , his first job as a clerk in Orissa government and then his first corporate job in  DCM.Part II is about his career with many IT companies culminating with a 10 year stint in Wipro.Part III deals with founding of MindTree and shares his views on leadership, management and life in general.The book is subtitled "Life Lessons for the Young Professional" Sure enough it has a vast array of nuggets of author's experiences interspersed throughout the book.