The Essence of Leadership: Explorations from Literature by S Manikutty,Sampat Singh

By S Manikutty,Sampat Singh

realizing management is admittedly approximately figuring out lifestyles, and this starts off with gaining an knowing of the self. conventional administration techniques, in response to 'scientific' research, can't give a contribution a lot in the direction of realizing management. This publication indicates how management will be larger understood by means of studying and examining masterpieces of worldwide literature, and pertaining to them to management issues.
The publication starts off with Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote, whose major personality asserts, 'I comprehend who I am', and believes in himself. this is often by way of different works to spotlight very important concerns: ambition and goal in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, religion vs. cause in Bertolt Brecht's The lifetime of Galileo, awakening the human spirit in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, authenticity in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, and the outdated Sanskrit play Mudra Rakshasa through Visakhadatta, leaders and society in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the position of illusions in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, taking a stand in A Dolls' House, the epic Mahabharata for improvement of standpoint, and Herman Hesse's Siddhartha for figuring out the method of self-development and realisation of one's capability.

in accordance with the adventure of the authors educating a direction on management for the final twenty years on the Indian Institute of administration, Ahmedabad, this can be an enlightening and illuminating learn for either academicians and company leaders.

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