Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: The First Gurus Were Gurus | |
In which we prepare to unlock stores of wisdom from the past | |
The World's First Management Consultant | |
A sage assembling material for the Arthashastra, the fi rst business book ever written, defi nes strategic principles that still contain transformative power | |
How to be Unstoppable | |
A young man uses principles in the Arthashastra to build one of the biggest empires in the world-but he wants more | |
The Source of Wealth | |
At the dawn of civilization, a group of people discover that concentrated economic activity generates riches | |
On Winning and Losing | |
Minutes before he has to kill or be killed, a soldier confronts the great questions of life | |
His search for answers is preserved in the Bhagavad Gita | |
The Goal is Not Where You Think it is | |
Siddhartha Gautama experiences great wealth and extreme austerity and decides that both are false gods | |
He discovers that true fulfi llment lies elsewhere | |
The Capacity to Change the World | |
A leader with a huge amount of drive uses it for both good and evil, and records his fi ndings in the extraordinary Edicts of Ashoka | |
Achieving Balance | |
A young man embarks on a mission to summarize and codify human relationships and produces the Kama Sutra | |
Further Travels in Ancient Writings | |
Inner journeys can take you a long way | |
But this book is merely the fi rst step on a much longer trip | |
Index | |
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