The Enlightened Manager
A Transformative Approach to Work and Life
hat if we approached management and entrepreneurship not as a route to getting rich – but as a way of living? What if we started not with a set of techniques but with trying to understand the workings and conditioning of the mind – both of our colleagues and our own?
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The Enlightened Manager
A Transformative Approach to Work and Life
Synopsis:
hat if we approached management and entrepreneurship not as a route to getting rich – but as a way of living? What if we started not with a set of techniques but with trying to understand the workings and conditioning of the mind – both of our colleagues and our own?
CEO and entrepreneur Vishnawath Alluri and columnist and poet Harry Eyres found clarity in life and work through the teachings of Indian sage J Krishnamurti, who has been called “the guru of gurus”. Krishnamurti’s teachings were as profound as they were challenging, winning the admiration of intellectuals from theoretical physicists and world leaders to the Dalai Lama and writers like Aldous Huxley and Iris Murdoch.
Now Alluri and Eyres have teamed up to think through the management problems of today in the light of Krishnamurti’s timeless insights. Can we relate better to ourselves and others by committing to spiritual freedom? Do entrepreneurs and investors make better decisions when they are radically self-aware? How can the essential human arts of humility and compassion make us more effective leaders?
The Enlightened Manager is based on the lived experience of Alluri, an entrepreneur who has founded several global tech companies, but it is so much more than just a business book. It is the beginning of a journey. Krishnamurti urged that truth and wisdom can only be found in the practice of life itself. The Enlightened Manager goes beyond the business school to show us there is more to learn from a man pushing a bus than from a dozen strategy power-points. By returning us to first principles, this fascinating and paradigm-shifting book inspires us to redefine success, rethink management, and transform the essence of work itself.
About the Authors
VISWANATH ALLURI (VISH)
aving trained as a chartered Accountant and worked a Company Secretary, Vish became a Tech Company Founder. He was the Founder and CEO of IMImobile.
He began his entrepreneurial journey with a vision of harnessing India’s intellectual resources to develop Intellectual properties from India for world markets. He founded IMISoft in 1988, to develop Engineering Products . IMI Soft developed best-in-class engineering products for design of Transmission line towers and Telecom towers. Having licensed its product to global companies like ABB, Hyundai besides leading Indian players, IMI Soft emerged as an Engineering company of high values and trusted for its integrity, besides its best-in- class products. In 2008 it was acquired by an Engineering Conglomerate from Denmark which was also known for its high values of life.
He founded IMImobile in 1999, with a vision of developing a mobile data Infrastructure out of India for global markets. This was founded with a vision that mobile data would be the future of technology development globally..Over the next one and a half decades, Vish helped grow IMImobile into a global CPaaS ( Communication Platform as a Service ) leader, with operations across continents ( over 70 countries ) . IMI mobile had equity investors from India, UK and USA. IMI mobile’s technology and international growth eventually led to a successful acquisition by Cisco in 2021. Acquisition of IMImobile by CISCO ( $ 730 millions) is a validation at two levels. Firstly it validates its cutting edge Technology and secondly passing through the Due Diligence process of a seasoned acquirer like CISCO is a validation of a robust management process,
His journey of Tech entrepreneurship was inward as much as outward as he was deeply impacted by the teachings – about life as a whole – of J Krishnamurti. . The teachings had a profound impact on Vish—challenging, questioning, and ultimately reshaping how he saw the world and life in it. He has been involved in doing work of various kinds for the Foundations of J Krishnamurti worldwide since 2000, alongside his work in the company.
Finally in 2014 after the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange he stepped away from his responsibilities as CEO of a tech company to dedicate himself fully to the work of the Krishnamurti Foundations – disseminating his teachings, education of children and rural welfare in India.
Currently as
Secretary Krishnamurti Foundation India · Full-time
Oct 2021 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos
Assisting the foundation’s work to preserve and disseminate the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, responsibility of Schools in India for education of children, rural outreach work.
