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
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails--our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.
-Swami Vivekananda