TY - CHAP
T1 - The Essential Leadership Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
AU - Low, Patrick Kim Cheng
AU - Muniapan, Balakrishnan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Bhagavad Gita, a part of the Mahabharata composed more than 5,000 years ago by Vyasa, is a timeless leadership classic and its wisdom is highly relevant to leaders of today. Here, in this paper, the authors examine the various tenets of the Bhagavad Gita and provides its wisdom to contemporary leadership. Some of these teachings will certainly inspire the leaders to change from within and transform their leadership from transactional to transformational and towards transcendental. In presenting this wisdom, the authors have employed hermeneutics, which is a method to interpret ancient texts combined with some qualitative inputs received from leadership seminar participants. This paper is significant for both leadership theory and practice.
AB - The Bhagavad Gita, a part of the Mahabharata composed more than 5,000 years ago by Vyasa, is a timeless leadership classic and its wisdom is highly relevant to leaders of today. Here, in this paper, the authors examine the various tenets of the Bhagavad Gita and provides its wisdom to contemporary leadership. Some of these teachings will certainly inspire the leaders to change from within and transform their leadership from transactional to transformational and towards transcendental. In presenting this wisdom, the authors have employed hermeneutics, which is a method to interpret ancient texts combined with some qualitative inputs received from leadership seminar participants. This paper is significant for both leadership theory and practice.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2652-2.ch011
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-4666-2652-2.ch011
DO - 10.4018/978-1-4666-2652-2.ch011
M3 - Chapter
BT - Business, Technology, and Knowledge Management in Asia
ER -