Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-93-5328-757-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Ace

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SELF-LEADERSHIP AND SERVANT-LEADERSHIP
Leadership Values in Conflict
Self-Awareness in Leadership
Work as Yoga
Timeless Leadership
Leadership Towards Freedom
Meditation and Leadership
HIGHER PURPOSE
Leadership as the Yoga of Love
Leadership and the Supreme Position
Confidential Knowledge
Leadership and Infinite Divinity
Seeing the Integrated Whole
Devotional Leadership
HOLISTIC SYSTEMS
The Leader as the Knower of the Field
Transcendent Leadership
Leadership as Higher Consciousness
Divine and Demoniac Dispositions
Three Leadership Styles
Concluding Leadership Lessons
Afterword: The Linked-Leadership Model
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Simpson, Ace
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.