Discord and Rapport

About the Book

This story starts with the hero’s father from Britain fighting in the trenches during the Second World War in Burma. He is brought back to Calcutta for treatment after being wounded, where he meets and later marries a Bengali journalist, to whom Simon is born. Growing up and running a successful investment company in Calcutta, Simon’s fortunes and future changes when he meets a business Moghul Alan from the UK and starts working for him from Alan’s palatial home in central London. Here he is introduced to Liz, Alan’s wife, Sandra and Keith. Simon becomes privy to many problems that Alan’s family had to undergo in their private lives and businesses including mafia connections and fraud investigations. He manoeuvres through all of them cleverly as his mother’s upbringing and his experience from life in Calcutta helps him face and solve their various family crises. The secret of living and restoring the family wealth of his adopted mother’s family are other interesting facets to ponder about. His motivational speeches using simple stories are unique for management presentations.

About the Author

The author had varied experience from Engineering industry to Import/Export, Insurance, teaching, managing his companies and years of experience in senior management in several companies in UK, India and USA; and, finally, as Practice Manager in GP surgeries. After retirement, he worked for his wife’s company as Company Secretary, Accountant and as an all ‘odd jobs’ person. Writing the first book, about Admin Management in GP practices, it took about 3 years before publication in 2014, and Whirlpool Life published in Sept 2019.