VEDIC LEADERSHIP

MANAGEMENTEXPRESSION OF VEDA AND

THE VEDIC LITERATURE

G.SAIKRISHNA, M.B.A

DIRECTOR OF YUVA FOUNDATION

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Modern Management and Ancient Vedic Management Discover the Fabrics of Immortality in the Management

VEDIC LEADERSHIP

Sri Krishna (Father of Vedic Leadership)

Modern Management and Ancient Vedic Management Discover

the Fabrics of Immortality in the Management

G.SAIKRISHNA,

Director of Yuva Foundation

OPP: Vidyanagar Bus Stop, Hyderabad, (AP), INDIA.

Web: www.yuvafoundation.com, Email:saiphd99@yahoo.com,

Contact number: +91 - 09247816033

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The modern management concepts like vision, leadership, motivation,

excellence in work, achieving goals, meaning of work, attitude to wards

work, nature of individual, in the Baghvad Gita with a sharp insight and

finest analysis to rime through our confused grey matter making in highly

eligible to become a part of the modern management syllabus.

Leadership is an important factor for making any type of organization

successfully. Through out the history it has been recognized that the

difference between “success” and “failure” whether in a war, a political

movement, a business, or a team game, can be attributed largely to

leadership.

In this context the Baghvad Gita expounded thousands of years ago

by the Super Management Guru Krishna, enlightens us on all managerial

techniques leading to a harmonious and blissful state of affairs as against

conflicts, tensions, lowest efficiency and least productivity, absence of

motivation and lack of work culture etc common to most of the enterprises

today.

BASS, BERNARD (1989):

Good leaders are born not made. Who have the desire and willpower, they

become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending

process of self- study, education, training, and experience. This guide will

help you through that process. Good leaders are continually working and

studying to improve their leadership skills: they are not resting on their

laurels

Effective leader qualities were discussed in Vedas and Baghvad Gita. For

Example:

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MODERN MANAGEMENT

RALPH STOGDILL:

Surveyed more than 5000 Leadership

studies and concluded that success full

leaders tend to have the following qualities:

Strong desire for accomplishment

Persistent pursuit of goals

Creativity and intelligence used to

solve problem

Initiative applied to social situations

Self-assumed personalities

Willingness to accept behavior

consequences

Low susceptibility to interpersonal

stress

High tolerance of ambiguity

Ability to learned of ambiguity

Ability to influence other people

ability to structure social interaction

VEDIC MANAGEMENT

SRI KRISHNA (BAGHVAD GITA)

(2.23)

“ Naianam chindanti

shastrani

nainam dahati pavakah

na chainam kledayantyapo

na shoshayati marutah ”

Weapons cannot claim

him nor fire burn him

Water cannot wet him,

nor wind dry him away

.HE IS THE LEADER

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ATTITUDE TOWARDS WORK

Three stone-cutters were engaged in erecting a temple. A Human Resources

manager asked them what they were doing. The response of the three workers

to this innocent-looking question is illuminating.

'I am a poor man. I have to maintain my family. I am making a living here,' said

the first stone-cutter with a dejected face.

'Well, I work because I want to show that I am the best stone-cutter in the

country,' said the second one with a sense of pride.

'Oh, I want to build the most beautiful temple in the country,' said the third

one with a visionary gleam.

Their jobs were identical but their perspectives were different. What Gita tells

us is to develop the visionary perspective in the work we do. It tells us to

develop a sense of larger vision in one's work for the common good.

* JAI GURU DEV *

Dedicated To

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His Holiness Maharshi Mahesh Yogi,

The Guiding Light of the Discovery of Veda and the Vedic Literature in Vedic

Management

HIS HOLINESS MAHARSHI MAHESH YOGI

(Dawn of Total Knowledge )

‘Here is the first

and final disclosure

of knowledge that

presents every

human being as the

embodiment of the

total creative

process in Nature

and renders human

life as a field of all

possibilities.

“This offers mastery

over Natural Law to

everyone and

perfection to every

nation Heaven on

Earth.”

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