“Being in the armed forces has also imbibed in me the elemental role of risk taking plays in leadership. Once, we were docked off the coast of Somalia, where a civil war was raging. When we ran out of supplies and water, I had to walk right into the strife torn coast to get the necessities, alert yet fully vulnerable to danger. Unlike in the corporate world, losses here are not just money and jobs, but your own life and the lives of those you command,” says Niketh Sundar, Global Head – People Function, QuEST Global in an interaction with Human Capital Magazine.