Zeeshan Khatri is a professor, innovation leader, and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience across academia and industry. Having worked closely with high-performing professionals, emerging leaders, and ambitious graduates, he has seen firsthand how performance-driven systems shape priorities, identity, and time. Trapped in the Glass Tower reflects those observations. It is not a rejection of ambition, but an examination of unconscious ascent - and a call to grow deliberately inside demanding environments.