Synopsis "Perennial Values: Stress-free Ethical Leadership During Crisis"
Crisis brings stress. Effective leadership can be the saviour. But, mental stress, being the greatest energy dissipater, reduces the effectiveness of the potential leader. This original work is based on the premise that the universal human values are as germane as skills for successfully coping with stress, thereby ensuring the effectiveness of the leader in individual and collective organizational scenario. These values, emanating from the ever-present divine Cosmic Reality, which is the First Cause and the ultimate refuge, are therefore eternally ameliorative. This inter-disciplinary collection of essays based on the author's long experience of dealing with wide cross-sections of the society including corporate executives, college & university students, faculties and working professionals etc. introduces such perennial human values with explanations, supported by modern physics & Indian Vedanta. It presents through theoretical underpinning and practical illustrations the eternal leadership theory of India that works through spiritual economics and strong emotional intelligence. It is also inherently stress-free. Can such a leadership based on spirituality be an answer to the present global crisis? This unique and highly referenced reflection on a wide range of ideas covering universal values, mental stress, physical and mental immunity, modern physics, leadership, economics, management education, ethics and emotional intelligence will provide the readers with useful insights in their quest for an alternative stress-free and ethical leadership paradigm based on synthesis of science and Vedanta which has been the essence of contemporary Indian contribution to the world.
