{"product_id":"9789386250285","title":"The Essence of Leadership: Explorations from Literature","description":"Understanding leadership is really about understanding life, and this starts with gaining an understanding of the self. Traditional management approaches, based on 'scientific' analysis, cannot contribute much towards understanding leadership. This book shows how leadership can be better understood by reading and interpreting masterpieces of world literature, and relating them to leadership issues.\u003cbr\u003e  The book starts with Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote, whose main character asserts, 'I know who I am', and believes in himself. This is followed by other works to highlight important issues: ambition and purpose in Chinua Achebe's \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e, faith vs. reason in Bertolt Brecht's \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Galileo\u003c\/i\u003e, awakening the human spirit in Bernard Shaw's \u003ci\u003eSaint Joan\u003c\/i\u003e, authenticity in Girish Karnad's \u003ci\u003eTughlaq,\u003c\/i\u003e and the old Sanskrit play \u003ci\u003eMudra Rakshasa\u003c\/i\u003e by Visakhadatta, leaders and society in Arthur Miller's \u003ci\u003eAll My Sons\u003c\/i\u003e, the role of illusions in Ibsen's \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Duck\u003c\/i\u003e, taking a stand in \u003cu\u003eA Dolls' House\u003c\/u\u003e, the epic Mahabharata  for development of perspective, and Herman Hesse's \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e for understanding the process of self-development and realisation of one's potential. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e  Based on the experience of the authors teaching a course on leadership for the last 20 years at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this is an enlightening and illuminating read for both academicians and corporate leaders.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177100427504,"sku":"9789386250285","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789386250285_p0.jpg?v=1763676410","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789386250285","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}