Quietly Connected is built on what 316 senior professionals revealed about how real-world connections are made, maintained and activated. Hitesh Gossain - IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, corporate leader with two decades of experience and one of Asia's most recommended LinkedIn profiles - discovered that networking isn't a talent. It's a habit. One that started for him as a kid in Agra with a free phone line and a simple instinct: check in on people.