Archive for August, 2007

Vishnu as Leader

August 3rd, 2007

Published as 'Worldly Affairs' in Corporate Dossier (Economic Times) on Friday 3, August 2007 
Case studies appeal to the rational side of the mind. But the mind has another side, the intuitive side, which is informed by various emotive, metaphysical, cultural and personal truths. This side rapidly understands concepts presented through mythology. Mythology is a little exploited teaching tool. [...]

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Leaders as myth-makers

August 3rd, 2007

Published as 'Promised Land' in Corporate Dossier (Economic Times) on Friday 27 July 2007
Visualize this. A slave in Egypt in 1500 BCE (Before Common Era, formerly known as BC or before the birth of Christ). He hears a man, once a prince, now an outlaw, declare that God has instructed him to take all the slaves [...]

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