PRIDE: Practical Guide Leading To Success In Professional Career and Life

As you start your professional career/business post your academics, having much desire to start earning and standing on your own feet. There is a lot of enthusiasm surrounding and a lot of expectations and dreams for a bright future ahead. As you take your first steps in a professional career, you look for some mentor guidance or role model to emulate and be successful. Most of the times you don’t know where to start, where to look out for help, and the whole life starts fizzling out.In this book, the author Sandeep Agarwal, provides the necessary foundation, starting with identifying your real purpose, defining your vision statement, and then guiding you step-by-step regarding how to lead a successful professional life with dignity and respect. He goes on to explain the values that become an essential component to shape your career and allow you to achieve your vision and take you closer to realize your real purpose in life. He defines the benefits in an acronym P.R.I.D.E which provides details regarding professionalism, taking responsibility, embracing integrity, maintaining a complete self-development not just for your mind, but body and soul, and driving with excellence. These five behavioral traits which you can embed into your daily life and your actions will provide the focus to lead a very satisfying and prosperous life. The book covers anecdotes, his personal experiences, stories, and a detailed action plan that can guide you to live a holistic professional life.

Most corporate executives are familiar with the need to have mission, vision and values statements for the organization. Sandeep Agarwal has adopted this approach for individuals and through his book, P.R.I.D.E. has created an invaluable tool for young professionals to plan their careers and lives successfully.

P.R.I.D.E. is written in a flowing, easy to read style and the lessons supported by anecdotes, examples and personal experience. Sandeep continuously raises questions which individuals must ask to understand themselves better. If I had to pick one anecdote as my favourite, it is about the king and his four wives; the punch lines at the end have a lesson for all of us.

Having known Sandeep for well over a decade, I would say that he lives by the values he endorses in P.R.I.D.E. which accounts for the sincerity that shines through his book.

Ashok Soota

Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd
Co-Author: Entrepreneurship Simplified: From Idea to IPO