November 2024
From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Success: What 30 Years of Studying India's Indigenous Management Systems Taught Me About LeadershipIt was a chance encounter with a lecture by an eccentric Swamiji that changed the trajectory of my professional life. As a young management student in the early 1990s, steeped in Drucker, Tom Peters, and Edward de Bono, I found myself questioning the status quo: Why were we studying only Western concepts and case studies for success in management? Why was there nothing about the Indian context?This question would lead me on a thirty-year meandering journey…