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
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains--one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.
-Swami Vivekananda
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