'Foundations of Managerial Work' Contributions from Indian Thought by S K Chakraborty

Here's an excerpt from the diary of a second year PG student of IIM-Kolkata who completed the term on Managerial Effectiveness based on this book.

Day 1
As I evaluate my past experience I have discovered that the main reason for lack of SENSE OF PURPOSE, COMPOSURE is that I have allowed my mind to wander freely, and have finally been totally capsized by the mind and got confused. MINDFUL BREATHING is giving me some ray of hope

Day2
Two sessions of mindful breathing in the class.
First systematic pranayama practice after many years. Previously, I had tried the same but very irregularly by consulting books on Yoga.
Difficulties faced:
1. in maintaining uniform rate of inhaling
2. in maintaining slower rate of exhaling
3. tended to gasp after 5-6 cycles.

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Day 10
Before taking up this course I did not know a proper method for controlling the mind and its activities. Now, through the process of concentration and breathing, I can overcome the restlessness of the mind. The employment interview season is coming near. I intend to use this as an aid during the placement to overcome frustration, fear and haste.

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Day 21
Today I have an outlook on Indian psycho-philosophy. We are taught to respect elders from childhood and we touch their feet in obeisance and get blessings. We stand up while an elderly or a teacher is in front of us to show respect. In temples all over India while taking a round of the sanctum-sanctorum we have to bend our head and back as we are taught to approach the Deity or the Supreme, the Divine with humility.
If perchance in a bus, in the home, or in the office, someone's feet touches the other person, the former is expected to seek pardon for that by the gesture of a namaskar i.e, raising the joined palms to one's forehead...
small examples like these are a legion. Are we really empathic to the very social norms and many more innocuous yet organic rites and symbols of a living civilization? Even fifty years ago, India has produced human material of much better all-round qualities than found today.

Revisit the Indian ethos, the work-culture, the sociological perspective, trans-empirical psychology, the will-of yoga & meditation, leadership traits, Creativity: Brain storming or Brain stilling?
Attitude changes: Indian dilemma and Perspectives explored with classical approach quoting from the Indian Mythology yet very relevant emphasis laid on modern work-culture with MBO,Vintage Insights, Change Agents, Social vs Physical Scientists, Guna Dynamics and Transactional analysis, and so on .....

Let's rediscover the strength of our roots, our Motherland, the magnificent India: Her values.....
INDIA: MY HEART BELONGS TO YOU.....