The Robotics Call
The seven decisions that keep parents paying and children building.
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A decision method for leaders of companies that teach robotics to children.
FOR ROBOTICS EDUCATION LEADERS
You promised a parent a working robot by the end of term. Now the kit is held at customs, a mentor has resigned, and the start date is on Monday.
Everyone has a diagnosis. Growth says parents pay at the last minute. Mentoring says a class cannot run when children have no kit. Support says nobody told them anything until the parent was upset. Each of them is describing a real part of the problem. None of them is describing the same part.
So you fix what is loudest. A faster courier. A price cut. A new kit. It helps for a term, and then the same complaint comes back.
The Robotics Call is for the moment before you spend that money. Take one real decision about your batches, your kits, your mentors or your price. Carry it through seven disciplines, in a fixed order, with a worksheet at each step. At the end you can say what you chose, what you turned down, what evidence you had and when you will look again.
It will not teach you how to teach robotics, and it will not tell you how to run your company. It gives you a method for deciding.
A parent trusts you with their child's time and a kit. Make sure the call behind it was decided, not assumed.
THE READER
Who it's for
- Leaders of companies that teach robotics to children: founders and chief executives, and heads of delivery, curriculum, mentoring, growth and operations.
- People who decide whether to open more batches than they have mentors or kits for, how to price the next term, when to change a build project mid-term, and what to tell parents when a kit is delayed or a mentor leaves.
- Leaders who want to see the reasoning behind a decision, not only the decision.
INSIDE THE BOOK
What's inside
Seven disciplines, in a fixed order. Each one answers one question about your decision.
- Drishti, see clearly. What is the one friction causing the others? It is not the newest problem or the loudest one.
- Nischaya, choose deliberately. Which one direction removes that friction? You write down what you will do, what you will delay and what you will delete.
- Bodha, align people. Who must act for this to work, who loses something, and what will you say to them?
- Swadharma, build on your strengths. Which strength do you have, with evidence, that this direction needs? You build on what you can prove, not on how you see yourself.
- Margarekha, sequence it. In what order must things happen? Some steps are only slow. Some are duties, and a date never shortens a duty.
- Pramaan, test with evidence. What proves this will work? You set a small test with a stated failure line, and the book shows what to do when a date forces a call before the evidence is complete.
- Sadhana, build, fix and scale. What do you build, fix and scale? You leave with a 90-day plan, a weekly review and a scorecard, so the plan does not fade under start dates and shipments.
Also in the book:
- A 2-page Quick Start, so you get one decision working before you finish the chapters.
- A worksheet for each of the seven disciplines, and a Strategic Scorecard.
- Chapter 10, one worked example taken through all seven disciplines on a single dated calendar, from 1 March to 23 July 2027.
- Seven illustrative cases, one for each discipline.
- One honest loss case, in which a popular mentor leaves and a large share of families leave too, followed by an honest review.
Who it's not for
- Anyone looking for a robotics curriculum, lesson plans or teaching techniques.
- Anyone who wants legal, regulatory, safety or financial advice. The book says plainly that it gives none.
- Anyone who wants a checklist to skim. The method asks you to pick one real decision and stay with it.
A case from the book
The late kits that were not the courier's fault.
This is an illustrative composite, not a real company or person.
Complaints were rising. Kits were reaching families after the first class. The chief executive had already decided: the courier is too slow, move every kit to express.
The head of delivery asked for two weeks. She had every late kit listed with its dispatch date, destination and logged reason. She read the tracking histories herself and phoned families. Most of the late kits were not the courier's doing at all. They came from one rule: the dispatch date was set by the day the parent paid, not by the day of the first class and the real time the kit needs to reach that country.
She fixed the rule first, and paid for express only where the list showed it was needed.
The lesson: the first friction is often the one nobody had to look for. The courier was the visible part, and the smaller one.
What you get
- The Robotics Call, Robotics Education Edition, 240 pages.
- Format: E-book (PDF). Instant download after payment.
- Inside the book: the 2-page Quick Start, the seven disciplines with their worksheets, the Strategic Scorecard, the Chapter 10 worked example, seven illustrative cases and one honest loss case.
- Publisher: Self Published.
All cases are illustrative, not real people or businesses. The book is not legal, regulatory, safety or financial advice.
Self Published. Contact: venkat@venkatmurthy.in
About the author
Kuruva Venkata RamanaMurthy, known as Venkat, is an author, TEDx speaker and leadership coach. He is the creator of Bharateeya Strategic Intelligence, the seven-discipline method behind this book. His books include Inspire Impact Ignite: Leadership is a Story, Not a Title; AI Driven Leadership: Leading with Dharma in the Age of AI; BSI; and DRISHTI.
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