Timeless Leadership: 18 Leadership Sutras from the Bhagavad Gita
- 3h 22m
- Debashis Chatterjee
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2012
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.
About the Author
DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE has taught leadership classes at Harvard University and at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) in Calcutta, Lucknow, and Kozhikode for nearly two decades. He has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for predoctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author of six books, including Leading Consciously and Break Free, that have been translated into several languages, Dr. Chatterjee has trained more than 10,000 managers at Fortune 100 corporations globally and has served as a leadership coach to political leaders and CEOs of major Indian organizations. He has acted as dean of an international business school in Singapore. A pioneer in the field of Asian models in leadership, Dr. Chatterjee is currently the Director of the IIM Kozhikode and serves as independent director on the boards of several multinational and Indian companies.
In this Book
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A Note about the Text
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Introduction—The Context of the GITA
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The Warrior's Journey—Leaders Embrace Discontinuity and Death
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Invincible Wisdom—Leaders Create Alternative Reality
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Karma Yoga—Leaders Enter the Timeless Cycle of Action
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Timeless Leaders Pursue Purpose as the Source of Supreme Power
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Leadership is the Art of Undoing—The State of Detached Engagement
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Leaders are Masters of Their Minds—The Art and Practice of Meditation
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Leaders are Integrators—The Freedom of “I Am”
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Timeless Leadership—Decoding the Meaning of Life
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The Sovereign Secret—Timeless Leaders Live in a Self-Organizing Universe
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Leadership is an Adventure of Consciousness
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Timeless Leaders Have Integral Vision
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Love is the Leader's Essence; Love is the Leader's Presence
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Leaders Command Their Field with the Eye of Wisdom
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Leaders Harness the Dynamic Forces of Nature
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Timeless Leaders Discover Their Invisible Source—The Tree of Life
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Leaders Negotiate the Crossroads—The Divine and the Devilish
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Leaders Follow Their Faith—The Journey of Self-Giving
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Leadership is Transcendence—The Unity of Two Wills
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Conclusion—Arjuna's Awakening—Practical Wisdom for Timeless Leaders
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