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Leadership Excellence: The Asian Experience:
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A case study on Ashoka the Great is presented in this paper, where the authors focus on the vision, mission and action on which his wholesome leadership was based, and bring out a few relevant points which may contribute to the development of leadership excellence.Abstract:
The globalised world needs people who exhibit courage, confidence, and vision and will to provide leadership based on holistic worldview, and cultivate flexibility, and admit diversity. Leadership excellence lies in adopting innovative approaches that foster understanding and build bridges across ethnic, racial, cultural and religious groups besides promoting social welfare, economic development, and tolerance of all religions and cultures.Asia provides one of the most inspirational role models for leadership excellence in an ancient Indian king, namely, Ashoka the Great (299–234B.C).In this paper we present a Case Study on Ashoka the Great. In order to understand his leadership excellence we focus on the vision, mission and action on which his wholesome leadership was based. The main objective of this paper is to bring out a few relevant points, which may contribute to the development of leadership excellence, which is the much focused topic in the field of management theory and practice.read more
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Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership
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Ethical Leadership in Three Dimensions
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A comparative history of ideas
TL;DR: Nakamura argues that particular intellectual and social developments can be traced in all great cultures; each culture deals with its problems in about the same order Discussing ideas from India, China, Japan and Europe, the author considers such inclusive notions as the concept of God as mentioned in this paper.