Rajat Chandra Sarmah is an alumnus of Cotton College, Guwahati, and has completed his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from the Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. He has a rich and diverse experience in the power sector, having devoted more than 35 years of his life to this field. He has worked on projects relating to hydropower, thermal power, renewable energy, and joint venture projects. He has also been at the forefront of the transmissions, planning, contract management, execution, commissioning, operation, and maintenance functions of various plants and projects. Prior to his retirement as Executive Director, he was heading the Information Technology department of his company. Besides working on multiple projects, he enjoys traveling widely to generally unknown serene destinations, football games and is a lover of ethnic foods of various regions. This is a work from his vast experience in executing projects, written mainly on the human aspects without using many technical terminologies.