The Kama Sutra of Business Management Principles from Indian Classics

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: The First Gurus Were Gurus.
In which we prepare to unlock stores of wisdom from the past.

2. The World’s First Management Consultant.
A sage assembling material for the Arthashastra, the fi rst business book ever written, defi nes strategic principles that still contain transformative power.

3. How to be Unstoppable.
A young man uses principles in the Arthashastra to build one of the biggest empires in the world—but he wants more.

4. The Source of Wealth.
At the dawn of civilization, a group of people discover that concentrated economic activity generates riches.

5. On Winning and Losing.
Minutes before he has to kill or be killed, a soldier confronts the great questions of life. His search for answers is preserved in the Bhagavad Gita.

6. The Goal is Not Where You Think it is.
Siddhartha Gautama experiences great wealth and extreme austerity and decides that both are false gods. He discovers that true fulfi llment lies elsewhere.

7. The Capacity to Change the World.
A leader with a huge amount of drive uses it for both good and evil, and records his fi ndings in the extraordinary Edicts of Ashoka.

8. Achieving Balance.
A young man embarks on a mission to summarize and codify human relationships and produces the Kama Sutra.

9. Further Travels in Ancient Writings.
Inner journeys can take you a long way. But this book is merely the fi rst step on a much longer trip.

Index.

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