Management and chutzpah

Turnaround manager Veer Sagar's book chronicling his journey as an entrepreneur and executive serves a purpose beyond recall and nostalgia, offering valuable insights and lessons to the reader

Failure is not an Option: When the Chips are Down Get Up and Get Going

Author: Veer Sagar

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages: 226

Price: Rs 599

Veer Sagar is a well-known name in the Indian IT industry. He started his career as a computer engineer in Dunlop, in the 1960s; pioneered the application of operation research, a mathematical approach to obtain optimum solutions to various commonly occurring conundrums in management decision-making in production planning, sales, finance and so on. That was his first job in an iconic British multinational with a “pucca sahib” culture that had invented rubber tyres and hence obviously thought they knew everything