It is my privilege to write a Preface to the novel, ‘A Commitment for Excellence’ written by my old friend and colleague Uday M. Karnik. I wrote an article in a very famous magazine in Marathi, ‘Antarnaad’ some nine years back on the same subject with a title, ‘Death of a Company’ in Marathi. This article was read by not only by my old colleagues but by Company Secretaries of other companies and many more. I have been persuading many retired people to write their autobiography. This will give them a nostalgic feeling about their life and also provide some documentation for the future generation. In literature, readers are now tired of reading imaginary novels which have no basis or relation to practical life. They are not interested in reading about platonic love. They want to read a real life experience, may it be a postman’s life or a postmortem worker’s life or carpenter’s life. Such biographies have slowly started coming in the market. I welcome Uday Karnik’s novel as it gives deep insight into the working of a Corporate entity. Uday Karnik has written this novel very innovatively. His hero in the novel has played a crucial role. Uday gives minute details about various experiences of a person holding an important position in a company. There is one danger in writing such novels based on real life that you are not insulting anyone or defaming anyone. Hence the writer has to take pseudo names. However such real stories, if read in an impartial manner, can give important lessons to an executive starting his career in any organisation. In fact, the proceedings of the novel are a subject of a very long real life experience, describing different natures of different people and how they ruin an institute for satisfying their ego and fulfilling the goals set for themselves, Sometimes such a report provides a germ to other creative writers. I hope that this novel will serve many such purposes. I wish the author all the best.