Wisdom from the Indian Bhagavad Gita and the Chinese Art of War. - Unlike the Chinese classic “The Art of War” that focuses on competition, the Indian-Hindu spiritual tome The Bhagavad Gita deals with individual competitiveness. The Gita de-clutters the confusion between profit and purpose, and outlines tools and techniques for stronger corporate resilience and impactful leadership. To produce results, the focus must be on the delivery (process) instead of the deliverables (products). The Gita rearranges commonly held perceptions about efficiency and effectiveness for efficacy, i.e. to be really accessible, actually attentive and always appropriate - basically to be more aware of being aware. This concept of mindfulness is not new. But novel in this book is a model to embrace such awareness with insight and foresight in order to arrive at the here and now of efficacy. On hindsight, most actions can be traced to a reason. However, in order to ensure the sustainability, scalability and significance of decisions, there must be, from the very start, an enduring inner firmness of purpose. Thus, the purpose of this book is to empower every decision-maker with this inner firmness. Many rivers flow into the same ocean, yet the ocean never ove
They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.
-Swami Vivekananda
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