Corporate lessons from Sastras
Yatha
Raja, TathaPraja – As the king, so the people goes the saying. His style
influences the people in his Raj. The same is described by peter Druker like
this …
‘A bottleneck in the bottle is at the top’. He
implies that the top management (similar to the king) influences the other
levels of management.
But in the world of web, when the hackers,
criminals, students and professors have an equal access – what can the so
called corporate gate keepers do, when there are no longer any gates?
This argument is raised to counter the view that top
management alone is responsible for the corporate reputation. In fact every one
has to take the responsibility at all levels is the modern view.
Even this view is supported by the Sastras which
says that unless you govern the self, you can not manage others. Thus the
practice of values is stressed at the individual levels before we corporatize
the same.
There are several organizational cultural issues we
get from the Sastras, much before the so called western theories of
organization. Some of them for you here…
Dharmic Raj - Righteous
government
Praja Kshemam - Welfare
of the people
YadYada Charati
Sreshtah tat tadeva
ItaroJanah - Conduct
of the elite is followed
By
others.
Udyogam Purusha
Lakshanam - Effort
is the hallmark of a man
Mate Sangosta
Akarmani - Avoid
inaction
Ma vidviShamaha - Do
not quarrel
Yoga Samatva
Uchayate - Do
not take extreme positions
AhamBrahasmi - Self
Awareness (I am the universal soul)
Vanaprashtha - Succession
management
(Giving
way for next generation)
VasuDaiyva
Kudumbakam - The
whole world is the family of god
(Corporate
social responsibility)
IsavasyamIdam
Sarvam - All things belong to God.
(Corporate
social responsibility)
There
are many more. Ancient Sastras says it all. The modern corporate management techniques
are only the new wine in the old bottle.
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