Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Crossing the Chasm -- 1. In the Service of the State -- 2. Of Platform and Purpose -- 3. Free to Go -- 4. Do You Speak the Language? -- 5. In the Rank and Status of a Cabinet Minister -- Part II: Where Does the World Live? -- 6 . 30 Days, 30 Districts, 3000 Kilometres -- 7 . Ten, Six, Four, Two -- 8. Muni Tigga -- 9. Where Is the ‘Two’ in the Equation? -- 10. Balasore to bahadurgarh -- 11. Knitting the Pieces Together -- 12. Basanti Pradhan -- Part III: Living in a Bubble and the Enemy Within -- 13. They Cannot Even Read or Write! -- 14. The Non-Performing Asset -- 15. Manjulata Bhukta and the Nursing Gap -- 16. The Plumber of Santa Clara and the Barber of Bhubaneswar -- 17. Information Asymmetry -- 18. But They Are Not Our Children -- Part IV: A Time to Act -- 19. The Success Managers --20. The Day the Chariot Moved -- 21. My A-Team -- Part V: Flowers Wait to Bloom -- 22. Doing More by Doing Less -- 23. Fix the ITI -- 24. The Injured Aircraft Engine -- 25. Girls Can Do Better -- 26. A Skill Anthem, a Boy Rapper and the Caravan -- 27. Bringing the Opera to the Rainforest -- 28. Zheng He and the Art of Collaboration -- 29. Chang! Here We Come -- 30. Tiling the Scale -- Part VI: Things Fail, Things Work -- 31. Mission Aborted -- 32. Nano Unicorn -- 33. 100, 300, 1000 -- 34. And Then Flowed the Narratives -- 35. Change Agents -- 36. Everyone Loves Competition -- 37. Creating Wonder -- 38. Something Too Large to Ignore -- 39. World Skill Center -- part VII: Leading --Transformative Change -- 40. How Far Can We See? -- 41. Crossing Over, Making It Work -- 42. Managing Change -- 43. The Transformative Leader.