Book Review: The Escape Trap by Kanti Gopal Kovvali

The Escape Trap is evidently written by the author who has deeper understanding of the corporate world's mechanism. He must have engaged, worked, and observed closely the loopholes and fallouts of that world. The book explores the scenarios as where and why people fall into traps in the corporate world. However, this book is highly useful for them i.e. business leaders, managers, team players, and anyone aspiring to scale up his/her career carefully.

The book mainly talks about traps that possibly are ever present in the working world. The book highlights them along with syndromes and how one can avoid falling in them. Right at the beginning of the book, the Assumption Trap is a highlight, especially with clever cat examples. The book is segmented in nine chapters on traps. The author has used mixed narration of fiction and nonfiction, to make it more engaging you will find a company named Bhasmasur Inc.

The stories told in the analogy narrative are funny, yet delivers strong message as how people at any level in offices could go to any length to escape the traps. The book is easy to read, however, the author should have given proper definition of each trap instead of continuing the chapters directly with symptoms or stories. Shifting the Burden and Escalation Trap is quite common among the working world, where people look to find excuses to blame others instead of finding a genuine way to solving the problems. The tone of the book may acquaint with people already familiar with the ways of office politics and circumstances.

The book's objective is to help people identify gaps in their professional lives and the better informed ones can learn to spot it by picking up this book. Other than corporate sermons, the book has shades of human philosophy and psychology embeds in it. That makes the book sound interesting. Despite all the learning from this book cannot be underestimated, it’s a book if someone reads at an early stage of their career, for sure they will emerge resilient and responsible in their profiles. The book is a great effort from the author. As his author bio describes, he is a man of wisdom and experience. He studied the corporate world like a subject.

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