Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-04-30
Mått139 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagSAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
ISBN9789353287573

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Ace V. Simpson is a Reader in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, and an Adjunct Fellow at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Each term, Ace is among the lecturers with the highest feedback ratings in his faculty. He researches positive organizational practices that promote employee well-being, psychological safety, flourishing and thriving. His primary research focus is on cultivating organizational compassion, and he has worked with industry and public sector organizations to develop organizational compassion capabilities as a positive approach to addressing the persistent problem of workplace bullying. Ace’s research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Inquiry and Management Learning. In addition to his love for research and teaching, Ace also enjoys practising yoga, exploring philosophy, travelling, learning from history and supporting the performing arts.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionSELF-LEADERSHIP AND SERVANT-LEADERSHIPLeadership Values in ConflictSelf-Awareness in LeadershipWork as YogaTimeless LeadershipLeadership Towards FreedomMeditation and LeadershipHIGHER PURPOSELeadership as the Yoga of LoveLeadership and the Supreme PositionConfidential KnowledgeLeadership and Infinite DivinitySeeing the Integrated WholeDevotional LeadershipHOLISTIC SYSTEMSThe Leader as the Knower of the FieldTranscendent LeadershipLeadership as Higher ConsciousnessDivine and Demoniac DispositionsThree Leadership StylesConcluding Leadership LessonsAfterword: The Linked-Leadership ModelBibliography

With the modern day technologies and education, many have access to vast and varied content on leadership to learn from and build their skills. As a lifelong student of technology and leadership, I seea very unique way in which Dr Simpson has translated the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gita into the linked-leadership model connecting four core and essential elements—higher purpose, selfawareness, servant leadership and holistic systems. These are in turn linked to the foundational teachings of the 700 verses forming the fabric that connects everything together in a logical manner. The work offers leaders invaluable perspectives on human psychology, motivation, strategy, culture, sustainability and a service orientation that are derived from the work’s deep spiritual foundation. Eventhose who are unconvinced by the work’s philosophical rather than empirical basis will at the very least have a basis for reflecting on how leadership might be done differently—with greater humility, respectand compassion. I highly recommend this book to build, enrich and refine one’s leadership skills to achieve the best performance from themselves and their organizations.