Timeless Leadership
18 Leadership Sutras from the Bhagavad Gita
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2012
256 pages
978-0-470-82925-7 (ISBN)
Description
The timeless leadership wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita explained
Although it was written well over two thousand years ago, the Bhagavad Gita ("Song of God"), a revered Hindu religious text, contains an immense wealth of ageless wisdom that speaks directly to the needs of today's business leaders. Timeless Leadership takes this unlikely resource and teases out important lessons on 18 aspects of leadership, from commercial vision to motivation, decision-making, and planning.
Looking in detail at what the Gita has to say about these and other issues of interest to business professionals, Timeless Leadership focuses on one central point: that once the basic thought process of man is improved, the quality of his actions will improve as well, leading to better results.
* Uses an ancient religious text to highlight and explain key Western management concepts
* Explores the leadership ideas in the Bhagavad Gita and helps managers and leaders apply them to modern business life
* Weaves together the threads of wisdom from the Gita to shed light on issues and challenges for leaders at all levels
Covering teachings and ideas that have only got better with time, Timeless Leadership adapts the wisdom of millennia past for today's business leaders.
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DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE has taught leadership classes atHarvard University and at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM)in Calcutta, Lucknow, and Kozhikode for nearly two decades. He hasbeen awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice forpredoctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard's John F. KennedySchool of Government. The author of six books, including LeadingConsciously and Break Free, that have been translatedinto several languages, Dr. Chatterjee has trained more than 10,000managers at Fortune 100 corporations globally and has served as aleadership coach to political leaders and CEOs of major Indianorganizations. He has acted as dean of an international businessschool in Singapore. A pioneer in the field of Asian models inleadership, Dr. Chatterjee is currently the Director of the IIMKozhikode and serves as independent director on the boards ofseveral multinational and Indian companies. He can be reached atdciimk@gmail.com.
Content
In Sanskrit "sutras" simply means "threads". This book attempts to weave many threads of ideas from the wisdom of the BHAGAVAD GITA to shed light on issues and challenges for managers and leaders at work. It offers wisdom that is timely and timeless.
The book will cover these timeless principles of transformational leadership:
- Self Mastery: the first discipline of leadership
- Crafting a wholesome vision: seeing the invisible potential
- The art of execution: overcoming performance barriers
- Leading through engagement: the culture of emotions.
- Establishing excellence and building an innovative organization.
- Developing human source: the spirit of leadership
- Confronting the challenge of change: adapting the mind to new reality
- Enlightened Leadership in response to stress and time.
- Leadership without the leader: the art of delegation
- Timeless principles of motivation, and communication.
Winning the War: The secret of invincibility
The First Step in the Whole Journey
Age of Disposable Ideas
You are the Cause, You are the Effect
A Problem Is a Solution
Learning is Earning
The Myth of Motivation
24 Hours Leadership
The Art of Undoing
The Power of Stillness
Negotiation and the art of dancing
Negative Side of Positive Thinking
Winning the War By Fighting With Your Self
Designing a Future
