Better Management & Effective Leadership Through the Indian ScripturesManagement as a subject and various theories associated with it are largely considered as brainchild of the West. the moment this topic is raised, the names of western thinkers, such as F.W. Taylor, Robert Owen and Peter F. Drucker, come to our mind. However, the fact is that all the management theories and hypotheses propounded so far, draw heavily from the Indian scriptures. Indian sages and gurus, like Sukra, Kautilya and Vedavyas laid the foundation to better management through their literary works as early as in the pre-Christian era. This book, Better Management and Effective Leadership through the Indian Scriptures, aims at discovering the treasure hidden in the Indian texts, making the management scholars all over the world feel proud of our literary heritage and appreciate the farsightedness of the Indian thinkers. It is an endeavour to reveal that, be it in any sphere of academics, Indian scholars were in no way secondary to their western counterparts; they were rather the precursors. |
Contents
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Self Development | 28 |
Cultivate Your Workforce | 38 |
Management by Example | 45 |
Manager as a Leader | 52 |
Managing by Least Supervision | 61 |
The Knack of Winning People | 74 |
Crisis Management | 84 |
Manage Your Writing | 114 |
Discipline | 131 |
The Regulatory Provisions | 146 |
Training | 169 |
Money Management | 176 |
On Saying No | 188 |
On Contradicting | 196 |
Epilogue | 202 |
Common terms and phrases
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