Most urban jobs involve dealing with air, water, and environmental pollution on a daily basis. What if you spend all your life in scenic surroundings? But the work is rigorous and you have to deal with much slower pace of life

Starting at just twenty years old, Ramesh Vasudevan turned down India's defense services for something entirely different: tea plantations. His first assignment? Pruning two hundred tea bushes in fifteen days at Mayfield plantation in the Nilgiris. (He thought he'd done well, but his supervisor had other ideas.) That harsh feedback became the foundation of his entire leadership philosophy: you can't effectively supervise others until you've truly mastered the job yourself.

Over his thirty to forty years in the industry, Ramesh worked across remarkable landscapes—from the prestigious Wentworth estate in Coorg to  ...