When clarity disappears, competence is no longer enough.

A company may be efficient, profitable - even praised by markets -
and yet be quietly losing the one thing no dashboard can detect:
the intelligence of its people.

In When Work Forgot Why, Arun Chattopadhyay delivers a piercing business novel about an organization where performance numbers still rise - even as curiosity, accountability, and independent thinking begin to die. The crisis is subtle, not dramatic. Nothing explodes. Nothing breaks.
People simply stop questioning.

What begins as a routine internal audit slowly reveals something deeper:
not a failure of process - but a failure of perception.

Through conversations that feel disturbingly familiar, this book exposes the unseen cost of workplaces that reward compliance over clarity, execution over understanding, speed over awareness. And in doing so, it asks the one question most leadership teams avoid until it's too late:

Has your organization become intelligent - or merely well-behaved?

When Work Forgot Why is not a management manual. It is a thinking event disguised as a story - designed for founders, CEOs, and leaders who are no longer satisfied with "running well" if the organization has forgotten what it is running toward.

If you sense that something is fading in your company - not visibly, but vitally - this book meets you exactly at that unease.