Tell us a little bit about your career journey and what compelled you to write your latest book about managing up.

So my career journey began in India.

I was a school teacher and then a consultant to begin with.

And then I went to an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, lived in Singapore, did HR consulting with Tavis Perrin, and then came to the US, did a master's in psychology from Harvard, joined Bank of America in talent management.

Then Novartis, I became a global head of talent management for oncology, and then global head of talent management at Chemours, which is a spinoff of DuPont.

Now, in all of this arc, the question that kept arising for me was when I was in my first consulting assignment in India, I saw a poster.

I was at a factory floor and I saw a poster which said, my boss is my God.

So which of these is the one you get asked about most often? And what's the single biggest mistake people make when they try to handle one of these three? So