Spiritual-Based Leadership from the Perspective of the Bhagavad Gita

C. Suriyaprakash
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C. Suriyaprakash: Jansons School of Business

Chapter 8 in Ethical Leadership, 2016, pp 125-152 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyzes the Spiritual-Based Leadership Research Programme (SLRP) which investigates the nature, activities, and results of leading from a spiritual perspective. The outcome of the program was the book Leading with Wisdom (Pruzan and Mikkelsen, Leading with wisdom: Spiritual-based leadership in business. New Delhi, Response Books, 2007) in which the profiles of 31 spiritual-based executives from 15 countries, representing six continents, were detailed. These profiles were classified into universal values such as love, compassion, divinity, and the like. This paper analyses the profiles of the 31 spiritual-based leaders of the SLRP through the lens of the 18 leadership sutras. It explores to what extent the lives of these leaders from diverse global cultures embody the principles and teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. The aim is to empirically verify and establish the cross-cultural relevance of the age-old wisdom contained in the Gita, resulting in a truly Indian model of leadership called Wisdom Leadership.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60194-0_8

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