The Cubicle Manifesto: The Perfect Way to Reinvent Your Life

by Mainak Dhar

The a small, compressed, half room where we spend half our lives bored, stressed, and secretly planning holidays. Where imagination and creativity die a slow death and ‘out of the box’ can mean only one thing—leaving the office.Mayukh, a young and harried manager, can’t believe his misfortune when he discovers one morning that his computer has been taken over by a virus. Especially when he has enough work on his plate to last him a lifetime. But things take a strange turn and soon the virus starts a revolution that gradually frees our hero from the tyranny of pressure and the shackles of stress. It reconnects him with his true self and family, and brings him more success than he could ever imagine.So if you’ve been spending more time in your cubicle than anywhere else, The Cubicle Manifesto is the revolution that you’ve been waiting for; one that you can start in the comfort of your own cubicle.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 16, 2012

About the author

After finishing his schooling at Modern School, Barakhamba Road and his under-graduation at Hindu College, Delhi, Mainak Dhar graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has spent two decades in the corporate sector — starting with Procter & Gamble in India. He spent eighteen years with P&G, fifteen of them outside India across the Asia Pacific region. In 2014, he moved back to India as the CEO of the India operations of a major consumer products multinational.
A self-described cubicle dweller by day and writer by night, Mainak is also the author of over a dozen books, some of which have been bestsellers in India and abroad. These books have been translated into Turkish, Vietnamese, Japanese, French, German and Portuguese. He lives in Mumbai with his wife, Puja, and their son, Aaditya. When not at work or with his family, he can usually be found working on, or thinking about his next book. Learn more about him and contact him at www.facebook.com/AuthorMainakDhar.

Reviews

[Parul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thumbs up!

It's as is written in the book. We know everything but rarely do we act on it. A relevant and interesting read.

[Sujith Surendhran · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book which narrates the importance of personal life and work life balance.
The fiction way of story telling help us to think and restructure our own working and personal life.
It's motivational and self help book but plotted in a fiction manner.
I completed in a single stretch

[Kai · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read, reminds you of some principles but nothing really mindblowing.

[Benedict Reid · Rating 1 out of 5]

An interesting insight into the Indian middleclass, but I kept checking the imprint because it was hard to believe that the Random House Group had published it. It really badly needed a structural edit and felt like a first draft. I really felt that with a better editor this could have been a great book, but as it was, it was repetitive and the story lacked much progression.