Review of Sunil Mishra’s Who Stole My Job?
- Title – Who stole my job?
- Author – Sunil Mishra
- Format – Paper back and e-Book
- Print lenght – 192 pages
- Publishers – Srishti Publishers & Distributors; First edition (10 April 2019)
- Price- 195/ [paperback] and 152/-[ebook]
Creative Tech has been one of the most successful IT companies in India during the last two decades. Only that it has started faltering of late. In a challenging and tumultuous business set-up, Marshal Scott, a newly hired American CEO, embarks on a transformation journey that starts on a high note, but soon gets entangled with many unexpected issues.
The employees experience disenchantment with the demanding leadership, frequent policy changes and cultural confl¬icts. Satvik, a mid-level manager sees the direct implications of these changes that lead to multiple business disruptions and exits of many of his colleagues.
Will things ever be same the again? Can Creative Tech tide over the disruption wave and reclaim its glorious past? What does employment mean for individuals and the corporate in the new digital world? Will the future of work be different from what was perfected after the Industrial Revolution?
Satvik is working at Creative Tech for over a decade and the company seems to be struggling in terms of revenue.
In comes Marshal who is based out in the U.S. while Creative Tech is based out in India! Initially Marshal’s plans and ideas look very attractive and promising but soon everyone is in for some rude shock!
He tries to adopt methods that are not known to this company, something that seems to be happening in the U.S. companies and the employees are not happy with those kinds of methods and decisions.
Marshal’s goal seems to be focused on the company rather than the welfare and job security of the employees of creative tech.
The employees are disgruntled and not able to accept the alien policies and decisions. What happens later in Creative tech is for you to read and find out!
The characters are seen through Satvik and the other characters are well developed.
I could relate to the situation as I have heard some of my friends talk about similar stuffs happening to them or their colleagues.
A lot of what is happening in the IT sector and what changes come about when the management / CEO’s outlook changes are well brought out by the author.
The language is simple with a little IT jargon in between.
The cover of the book connects with the story and that is a good thing!
You can finish it in one go and make a quick read.It is not a thriller but the story flows smoothly till the end.
The book finishes with an important message that if we want to survive in this corporate world, we must keep updating our skills so that we never go out of date!
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It a light read and you can go for it. Take it along with you for travel or read it when recovering from a heavy read. It tells you a lot of what is happening in the IT world!
Sunil is a software professional with over two decades of experience in the field of banking technology.
Currently, he is working with Infosys in India in the area of digital technologies and start-up ecosystem. He has earlier worked with McKinsey, Accenture and I-flex solutions. Sunil’s previous book Transit Lounge was a travel memoir of thirty countries.
Sunil is an MBA from IIM-Lucknow and holds a B.Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad.
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