Corporate Chanakya

Chanakya's Arthashastra was written for statecraft, and Radhakrishnan Pillai reads it for the modern office: leadership, negotiation, hiring and the handling of rivals. The book is arranged as many very short pieces, each taking one line of classical thinking and setting it against a management situation. Sections group around leadership, management and the training of people, which makes it easy to read a page before a meeting rather than working through it front to back. Reading notes: • Short standalone pieces, each pairing a classical principle with a workplace situation • Sections organised around leadership, management and developing people • Material drawn from the Arthashastra and presented without Sanskrit prerequisites • A page-a-day structure that suits busy managers and long commutes Useful to managers, entrepreneurs, team leads and business students, available in English at Boipoka.