People across the world are facing the greatest challenge in contemporary history -- the need to create a new environment for living and working. The fall of the mighty economies and the regeneration of the Asia, African and Latin American economies have generated a new corporate milieu. Therefore, businesses are re-engineering their operations to achieve excellence. Young boys and girls coming out of universities and business schools and getting into professional life find that success in this new environment is not easy. "Reach the Top" helps in filling this gap between excellence and mediocrity. It tries to provide a practical way of identifying what it takes to achieve excellence in life and career; and how to reach the top of a professional career - whatever your global location. This is not about an abstract thought process but about daring to be different and controlling the future on your own terms.
Y C Halan, a Senior Fulbright Fellow, is the director of Chronicle School of Media & Communication. He is a member of the Press Council of India, and Consulting Editor, Asia Defence News. He has a doctorate in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was Editor of The Financial Express (Delhi), Editor of Enhance and HT Investor (Hindustan Times) and CC Times of Times of India. He was Correspondent of Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington D.C. (USA). Dr Halan is on the Governing Bodies of Delhi Public Schools at Jamshedpur, Rewari, Nigashi and Vidhyanagar