Timeless Leadership 18 Leadership Sutras from the Bhagavad Gita
, by Chatterjee, Debashis- ISBN: 9780470824276 | 0470824271
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/31/2012
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 dciimk@gmail.com.
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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