The Hindu Business Line : Inquiry more important than outcome

He is a prolific writer of business articles dealing with competitiveness, IT, business processes, organisational culture and leadership. His book on managing in the new world order, The 3D competitive space: Managing in the New Economy , was published in 1997. His articles and reviews have appeared in a number of international and national journals, including Harvard Business Review and publications of The American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Prabhat is also a writer of fiction. His first novel, Chains, was published in November 2000 to critical acclaim and his second novel, Eimona, was published in 2006 to complimentary reviews. Here’s his take on four questions from Business Line:

Two things that my education/training taught me:

I subscribe to Mark Twain’s saying, “I never let schooling interfere with my education.”

Two things I learnt from my work/real life:

Inquiry is more important than the outcomes.

A true leader constantly pushes the envelope.

One quality I look for the most in a new recruit:

An urge to revise the status quo.

A book that I read recently:

I re-read Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse.

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