Unplanned Journeys

“You must be joking!” “Are you really serious?” “You’ll soon get over it.” I was expecting people around me to say this and similar stuff when I declared that I don’t want to work for a company (read another person) anymore, even when a respected training organisation gave me an offer and stock options. But the voices were all mine. The doubts personal and the feeling real. When I left my last role as the HR head of a group, I knew I was different. I felt different and unlike other times in the past when I would worry about my future, this time I felt absolutely confident. “I am never going to work for another man again” (or women for that matter). Sounds a little brash and stubborn …exactly the way it should be to be able to get this right. Shadab, Gaurav and I have dreamt of Audio Wagon earlier. Even gone to the extent of writing our mission statement, defining our vision, even participating in the Economic Times’ ‘Power of ideas’ contest and getting to the last but one leve...