Summary
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For professionals navigating negative corporate karmas, Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita offers a way forward for overcoming self-defeating habits and managing the mind's negative chatter that is often the main obstacle to effective leadership. By promoting a leadership approach of caring for followers, stakeholders and future generations, the book offers hope for harmonious workplace relations and a protected environment. Based on leadership by inspiration as opposed to leadership by control, Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita provides an alternative to conventional leadership. Particularly, in the times we live, where there is a crisis of faith in leadership, the insights from this book presents a vision of linked-leadership—leaders who are linked through loving-connection or bhakti-yoga with themselves (through self-knowledge), with other beings, with nature and with the supreme source. As exemplified by Krishna taking over the reins of Arjuna's chariot, the crux of this book is leadership, not as a title or position, but as a commitment to service, excellence and virtuous character that motivates and inspires others to pursue the same. The unique insights from this book will help you make sense of different personality types to motivate others according to their natures and inclinations, which will support you in forming effective teams and creating a harmonious and prosperous organizational culture. In short, this book challenges and equips leaders to step up and cultivate unity and diversity, and achieve sustainable wellbeing and happiness in their organizations.
Leadership and the Supreme Position
Leadership and the Supreme Position
Bhagavad Gita is India's greatest gift to the world…. I have nothing more valuable to give, and the world has nothing more valuable to get.
—Narendra Modi (1950)1
Overview
The quality of the questions you ask as a leader will focus the mind of the respondent and influence the quality of the answers you receive, affecting the quality of your decisions. Quality questions are framed in the positive and concern topics that promote reflection on higher purpose and attainment. By cultivating spiritual consciousness, leaders can show, by example, how one faces the most difficult of challenges with dignity and without fear. The way you live will inform how you will be remembered long after your departure from this ...