These are stories from a time when we believed in the magic of nothing being beyond what we could achieve.

Times when we trusted our friends to guard our backs in the darkest of allies.

Times when we would give our lives to guard our friend's back in return.

Times when we learnt the essence of leading and being led.

Times of our childhood!

Traces of these traits acquired then, remained in me as I grew up, helping me scale up the ladder in my corporate career! To cruise through life with perfect timing.

And to Alia and Abdullah, in whom I see traces of these traits reborn, who hopefully will have realised after reading this book, the reason they feel, the way they do for their friends. I pray you carry it forward, which is the purpose of our living, isn't it?

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The author, Kunhali Syed, who narrates this book is a proven management professional who has many success stories to recount. He has played a pivotal role in turning around companies and setting up new ventures across the Middle East.

He believes that selling as a profession holds great charm, and can be absolutely rewarding. There is an influx of management professionals, leaders too, business schools around the world produce a few thousand of them every year, but what the industry desperately requires is management professionals who can lead. A very rare combination.

The sort can't be churned out of business schools, for it requires inculcating altruistic traits at a very young age.

Syed proudly claims to have acquired the skills from the culverts he fished, and the fields he ran in as a kid...