Featuring insights from nine seasoned scholars, this collaborative work explores emerging paradigms essential for achieving excellence in a rapidly changing environment. It offers a diverse range of experiences to guide students, scholars, and practitioners in navigating contemporary challenges and opportunities.
The book emphasizes that effective leadership stems from a process of self-cultivation rooted in personal values, ultimately aimed at serving the common good. It critiques traditional leadership models for lacking a comprehensive framework that fosters a deeper moral and spiritual growth in leaders. The author argues that true leadership requires personal transformation that integrates self-awareness, spiritual growth, and a commitment to service, highlighting the importance of these elements in addressing the current leadership crisis.
Drawing from the Bhagavad Gita, this book offers insights into change management and organizational transformation through ancient leadership strategies. It emphasizes the importance of aligning individual and societal needs, fostering a balance between employee well-being and organizational goals. The text advocates for an inside-out approach to leadership development, focusing on self-knowledge and self-mastery as foundations for effective self-leadership. With its universal messages, it guides students and leaders in integrating leadership practices across various levels.
Leadership is framed as a practice of contribution and responsibility, emphasizing accessibility for all aspiring leaders. The book offers strategies for achieving fulfillment through service to organizations and communities, while promoting conscious leadership beyond formal authority. It outlines a roadmap for cultivating essential leadership qualities, including integrity, humility, and compassion. The author argues that true influence stems from empowering others rather than relying on titles or positions, making this a valuable read for leaders and scholars alike.
In "Gandhi and Leadership," Professor Dhiman examines the moral and spiritual principles underpinning Gandhi's leadership style. The book highlights seven Gandhian values that are particularly applicable to today's workplace, offering insights into ethical leadership.
Practices for Personal and Professional Performance
419pages
15 heures de lecture
This textbook provides a clear understanding of leadership needs in today’s business world, explained within the scope of hard and soft leadership skills. It captures qualities and skills such as spirituality, empathy, moral behavior, mindfulness, empathy, problem solving, self-confidence, ambition, knowledge, global understanding, and information technology. This text explains and provides guidelines for the implementation of each skill and includes examples from contemporary and historical leaders inviting the reader to consider each quality and engage in self-reflection. This book deviates from excessive theoretical descriptions presenting a timely, hands-on approach to leadership. Featuring contributions form academics and professionals from around the world, this text will be of interest to students, researchers, professionals in business and leadership who aspire to lead beyond their immediate environment.