This book is dedicated
This book is dedicated to all those who happen to read it with no expectations and preconceptions, and to those who happen to read it with expectations and preconceptions but are ready to examine their own expectations and preconceptions.
About the Book
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.
