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    Corporate Chanakya on Leadership

    By Radhakrishnan Pillai

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    About this ebook

    Chanakya, the most powerful strategist of 4th Century BC, documented his ideas on leadership, in the Arthashastra. In the present book, the author simplifies these age-old formulae for success in today’s corporate world.

    Corporate Chanakya on Leadership applies Chanakya’s wisdom across a host of areas including power and the responsibilities of a leader, decision making, nurturing people, ethics in business, how to prepare for competition and all that a leader should avoid doing. Gain from this guide and discover the Chanakya in you…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJaico Publishing House
    Release dateJul 1, 2016
    ISBN9788184953077
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    • 4/5
      Management Easily concepts are easily explained in this book.
      Good Book.
    • 3/5
      Very generic and did not provide any mind changing insights. just skim through and no need to spend too much time.
    • 5/5
      Excellent for emerging entrepreneur,Great book every leader should read once.
    • 4/5
      Quite enlightened...next thing I will do is to read Arthashastra..Thanks and regards.
    • 5/5
      Awesome I love to read this book again and again
    • 5/5
      ऐसे बुकों का होना या इनका ज्ञान होना बहुत जरूरी है
    • 5/5
      great and effective tips for bussiness, life.some are relly relevant for sucesss.
    • 5/5
      This book really amazing to read please everyone read is book
    • 4/5
      Interesting and an unorthodox take, sums up my view of “CORPORATE CHANAKYA ON LEADERSHIP”. Yes, as the two other reviews in Goodreads – discussed later – the book did not give anything new, especially to the experienced manager. The same can be said of Stephen Covey whose runaway successful books “THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE” and “THE 8TH HABIT” are a rehash of the advice imparted in the early decades of 20th Century by authors like Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie, but whose advice never had terms like managers, executives, etc. but they were still books on management. And Peter Drucker, the father of modern management was the first to compile a book on the subject, but his concepts too were already dealt with in various treatises, but not as management skills.

      What exactly does a manager do? Without jargon and hype – he has to conceptualise and set the goals for his organization / department, arrange for men, material and money and to guide and supervise the operations to achieve the goal.

      Radhakrishnan & Pillai (the authors) state that many modern management treatises borrows and analyses strategies and ideas from the 5th Century BCE ancient Chinese treatise Sun Tzu’s “ART OF WAR”. This is perfectly acceptable to modern young managers since it is the Western Management experts and CEOs who have done this.

      There is a 4th century BCE ancient Indian treatise on warfare “KAUTILYA’S ARTHASHASTRA”. This book is India’s contribution to the subject of warfare strategy. Of the 15 books in Arthashastra, six books are dedicated to the art of warfare. A deep study of these chapters will give us an insight into the factors that contribute to the making of a powerful organisation. Each modern management theory had already been explored thousands of years ago in the Arthashastra.

      The authors use this treatise in authoring this book “CORPORATE CHANAKYA ON LEADERSHIP” but their efforts are to naught for the young Indian Managers – only BECAUSE THEY ARE INDIAN MANAGEMENT EXPERTS AND NOT WESTERN ONES. I quote from one of the reviews on Goodreads:

      “Corporate Chanakya on Leadership is basically akin to school assignment done by an 8th standard student. Apparently, the student was asked to create 70 chapters of 2-3 pages with one verse in each chapter and its interpretation. The student was happy, he thought' "Aha! Now I just need to fill the pages. I'll copy some concepts from other management books written by Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey. So that they do not look copied I will quote that they have written it. All sorted, then I'll get full marks for copy-paste!". Throughout the assignment, he defined management terms such as 'leader', 'strategy', 'tactic' copied from Wikipedia to fill the space in the book. In one chapter he actually wrote the difference between strategy and tactic for half a page exactly as on the internet. His book ultimately turned out to be an assortment of 70 verses, management definitions, commonplace examples only unknown to people who have never read a newspaper in their entire lives.”

      I found this review juvenile and too shallow. It is apparent that the reviewer has not read C. Northcote Parkinson’s books “Parkinson’s Laws” and “Peter’s Principle”. Both these books are similar, in that each chapter is not longer than 2 / 3 pages and each chapter accompanied by a cartoon. I, for one, do not have the courage to criticise either the author or those books. Indian Management Guru Sharu Rangnaker too follows the same pattern for his books.

      This juvenile reviewer further continues, “Chanakya was a cunning and machiavellian political figure who was a kingmaker. The means to reach that end were both unethical and ethical. Chanakya has poisoned kings to topple their kingdoms. However, the author seems to be oblivious to these facts and writes that Chanakya's teachings are to never use any unethical means to win from the enemy.”

      It is apparent that this reviewer could not understand the nuances of the authors' approach. As one of Pillai’s mentors told him, "In India, we consider the scriptures to be mirrors. They reflect who you are. So if you do not understand Arthashastra, do not blame the mirror. As you grow and experience life, you will understand the book better."

      That Chanakya was a learned political commentator, great statesman and expert in economics, politics and warfare is obviously not known to the reviewer. Chanakya was no Machiavelli or Borgia. He was neither a serial poisoner of kings nor did he topple kings serially. Yes, he did avenge himself on the Nanda brothers (who were more than one) by eliminating them and replacing them with his student Chandragupta Maurya. As to how this act is unethical and abhorrent is not understood by me.

      Pillai has attempted to equate the CEO of a modern corporate to the king, the head office to the fort, the organization to the kingdom and the employees to the army to make Kautilya’s advice applicable to a modern corporate. This approach is not seen in other books till now and is unique.

      At the cost of repetition, while no new inputs are there, leadership is explained in very simple words. A novice will learn a great deal at the end of this book. It focuses on leadership qualities, how to acquire those qualities, how to implement those qualities. It's a guide for anyone who is into management.

      In its own way the book is informative. I enjoyed reading it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Overhyped and overrated. Very generic. Nothing insightful. Waste of time.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Couple of things were written more than once. Story line was missing. The crux of book revolves around few things but it has been over amplified in different words.

      1 person found this helpful