Pradeep Chakravarthy began his career in the TVS Group. He later worked at Cognizant, Infosys and McKinsey. In all these organizations, he worked in HR and Learning and Development, with clients, to improve performance through behaviour change. For the past few years, he has specialized in conducting workshops, one-to-one coaching sessions and heritage tours that seek to impart leadership and life lessons from Indian history and philosophy. Leadership Shastra is his ninth book. His earlier books include ones on Thanjavur, Kodaikanal, the temples of Tamil Nadu and Ashok Leyland. His work on a children's history of south India and a translation work are currently in press. He lives in Madras with his twelve-year-old car, his cricket-crazy son, Raghavan, and his father.