Timeless Leadership 18 Leadership Sutras from the Bhagavad Gita

by Chatterjee, Debashis

• ISBN13: 9780470824276
• ISBN10: 0470824271
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780470829257
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Most of the western management concepts of vision, leadership, motivation, decision making and planning, are all discussed in the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita preaches that once the basic thought process of man is improved, it will automatically enhance the quality of his actions, and consequently, their results.

Author Biography

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. He can be reached at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

A Note about the Text	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: The Context of the Gita	p. xxi
The Warrior's Journey
Leaders Embrace Discontinuity and Death	p. 1
All Wars Are First Fought in the Mind	p. 3
The Mind Is a Mob	p. 5
The Ego Is a Disposable Idea	p. 8
Leaders Embrace Discontinuity by Dispossessing the Ego	p. 10
The Secret of Invincibility: The Conquest of the Binary Mind	p. 12
Self Is the Cause; Self Is the Effect	p. 13
Hunting for the I	p. 15
Invincible Wisdom
Leaders Create Alternative Reality	p. 17
Grief, Pity, and Shame: The Mind's GPS System	p. 18
Creating Alternative Reality	p. 20
Motivation and the Monkey Mind	p. 22
The Leader's Inspiration Comes from Unselfish Work	p. 23
Unselfish Work Leads to Evenness of Mind	p. 26
Applying Invincible Wisdom: Powered by the Intellect and Driven by Unselfishness	p. 29
Karma Yoga
Leaders Enter the Timeless Cycle of Action	p. 33
Arjuna's Dilemma: The Warrior as Worrier	p. 34
Work and Its Secret: Action, Inaction, and Effortless Action	p. 35
Karma Yoga: Work as Worship	p. 38
The Yajna Spirit: Discovering the Timeless Cycle of Work	p. 40
Swadharma: The Case for Righteous Action	p. 42
Work as a Means of Realizing Who We Are	p. 44
Timeless Leaders Pursue Purpose as the Source of Supreme Power	p. 47
Rajarshi: The Leader as Sage	p. 48
The Many Faces of the Supreme Power	p. 50
Twenty-Four-Hour Leadership	p. 53
The Return of the Rishi	p. 55
Leadership Is the Art of Undoing
The State of Detached Engagement	p. 59
How Anchors of the Past Hinder Performance	p. 60
The Art of Detached Involvement	p. 62
Evolving to the Equality of Vision	p. 63
The Art of Undoing	p. 66
Leaders Are Masters of Their Minds
The Art and Practice of Meditation	p. 69
Separating the Self Image from the Real Self	p. 70
Mastery of the Mind	p. 73
Disciplines of Mastery: Concentration, Detachment, and Transcendence	p. 76
The Power of Stillness	p. 77
Leaders Are Integrators
The Freedom of "I Am"	p. 81
Context	p. 81
Arjuna's Journey from Ignorance to Wisdom	p. 82
Timeless Leaders Integrate People and Processes	p. 84
The Leader's World: A Reflection of Unmanifest Dharma	p. 85
From Ego-Centered to Spirit-Centered Leadership	p. 87
Leaders Liberate Themselves and Others from Suffering	p. 89
Timeless Leadership
Decoding the Meaning of Life	p. 93
Timeless Leaders Explore the Ultimate Meaning of Life	p. 94
The Multidimensional Meaning of Life	p. 95
Creation Is Sacrificing the Smaller for the Sake of the Greater	p. 97
The Real Meaning of Life Is Contained in Life Itself	p. 98
Meaningful Work: A Synthesis of Reflection and Action	p. 100
The Sovereign Secret
Timeless Leaders Live in a Self-Organizing Universe 103
Sovereign Self and the Path of Unity	p. 104
The Governance of the Ego: The Path of Disintegration	p. 105
Self-Organization: When Organization Becomes Community	p. 107
The Law of Giving: Being and Becoming	p. 110
Leadership Is an Adventure of Consciousness	p. 113
Leading Consciously	p. 113
Silence: The Language of Timeless Leadership	p. 115
The Dynamism of Indivisibility	p. 118
The Pursuit of Excellence	p. 121
Timeless Leaders Have Integral Vision	p. 125
Integral Vision	p. 126
Sight and Insight	p. 128
The Pangs of Plurality	p. 130
The Leader as Servant: Being an Instrument of the Whole	p. 132
Love Is the Leader's Essence; Love is the Leader's Presence	p. 135
Leadership Is Love Made Visible	p. 136
Devotion: The Art and Practice of Leadership	p. 138
Attributes of the Leader as Devotee	p. 142
Leaders Command Their Field with the Eye of Wisdom	p. 145
The Leader as a Knower in the Field of Knowledge	p. 146
The Dimensions of the Field and the Knower of the Field	p. 149
Seeing with the Eye of Wisdom	p. 151
Leaders Harness the Dynamic Forces of Nature	p. 155
Nature's Manuscript: The Three Forces	p. 156
How Leaders Harness the Three Forces of Nature	p. 158
Transcending the Dynamics of Nature	p. 162
Timeless Leaders Discover Their Invisible Source
The Tree of Life	p. 165
The Tree of Life	p. 166
The Invisible Leader	p. 169
From the Perishable to the Imperishable: Quest for the Supreme Self	p. 172
Leaders Negotiate the Crossroads
The Divine and the Devilish	p. 175
The Crossroads of Leadership: The Divine and the Devilish	p. 176
Toxic Leadership	p. 180
The Return Journey	p. 182
Leaders Follow Their Faith
The Journey of Self-Giving	p. 185
Faith: The Deep Structure of Leadership	p. 186
Three Kinds of Faith	p. 187
The Art and Science of Self-Giving	p. 191
Leadership Is Transcendence
The Unity of Two Wills	p. 195
The Source and Resource	p. 196
The Algebra of Attachment	p. 198
Renunciation and Regeneration of the Leader	p. 201
The Path of Transcendence	p. 203
The Unity of Two Wills: The Fighter and the Warrior	p. 207
Conclusion Arjuna's Awakening
Practical Wisdom for Timeless Leaders	p. 211
Quiet Leadership: The Practice of Handing Information Overload	p. 212
Leaders Must First Solve Their Most Persistent Problem	p. 214
Wisdom in Times of Uncertainty: Leaders Deal with Discontinuities in Life and Work	p. 215
Leaders Triumph by Merging Their Individual Will with Life's Purpose	p. 216
References	p. 219
About the Author	p. 223
Index	p. 225
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