Home Range: Where Strength Belongs

What if there is nothing wrong with your strength? What if you are standing on ground that has little use for it?

A cheetah does not stop being fast when its feet hit mud. A tiger does not lose its power when there is too little cover to approach prey. An elephant does not lose its memory when a familiar route disappears.

The strength remains. What changes is what the ground allows that strength to do.

Across twelve remarkable landscapes, from the open plains of Africa and the forests of India and Sri Lanka to the tidal Sundarbans, flooded Kaziranga, and rainforests of Sumatra, Home Range explores the relationship between strength and the environment in which it must work.

The questions soon become human. Why can someone exceptional in one environment struggle in another? Why does a strength that built years of success sometimes stop producing the same result? When should we persist and become better, and when should we recognise that the ground itself has changed?

There are no easy excuses here. Sometimes the environment is wrong for the strength. Sometimes the strength still needs work. Sometimes both have changed.

Drawing on more than three decades of leadership across organisations and cultures, alongside years spent observing and photographing wildlife, Ujjwal Majumder brings these two worlds together without turning animals into management teachers or offering another leadership framework.

As the journey deepens, Home Range asks an even larger question. Once our strength gives us influence, are we still only looking for the ground where we can succeed or have we become part of the ground on which others must succeed?

Home Range is about strength, performance, belonging and change and about learning to look at the person and the ground together before deciding what either one means.

The final book in The Forest Trilogy, following Nara-Simha and Masters of the Wild.

Strength always has a home.
The journey is about finding the right one.