Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata

Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata is a book of management insights and leadership principles taken from one of the most famous epics of all time, the Mahabharata.This book looks at the Mahabharata as a comprehensive strategy manual that can give us techniques that we can use in our daily lives to attain success. The book was written to show that as a management guide, the Mahabharata is equally good as management bibles like The Prince, The Art Of War, and Go Rin No Sho—The Book Of Five Rings. The author has selected specific shlokas and verses that can be used to find the path to success and the secrets of leadership and has presented them in this book. The management maxims in this book have been culled from the Bhagvad Gita Parva, the Santi Parva, and the Adi Parva. When Bhishma lies dying on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Krishna realises that the world will lose all knowledge with Bhishma’s death, and asks him to impart all that he knows to Yudhisthira to prevent this from happening. The Santi Parva contains these teachings of the wisest of them all, as imparted to Yudhisthira, and forms the core of this book. The book highlights thing like the details of how to apply the techniques of kingship to modern business practices and it explores the analogy between leadership and kingship. The principles in this book are organised under chapters with titles like War, Conduct, Espionage, and Duty.Leadership Secrets From The Mahabharata was published in 2003 by Penguin India in paperback.