GANDHI JI AND THE CORPORATE WORLD

Corporate gurus in India are talking about a new role model: Mahatma Gandhi.

The Father of the Nation is now being held up as the master strategist, an consumate leader, and someone whose ideas and tactics corporate India can emulate.

Gandhi's style of leadership as applied to corporate India would involve making even the lowest person in the organization believes in it and the significance of his contribution towards it.

But how does a capitalist corporate India reconcile itself to the socialism that Gandhi stood for? Gandhi was vehemently against industrialization and felt it would have a highly negative impact on society. Does it mean that he was against Globalisation?

Business leaders are clear that Gandhi's managerial ideas are what they want to follow.

It is not really selective application of Gandhi's ideas. Gandhi's example as a manager and leader is extraordinary. There was no one like him who could get people together to embrace his vision as their vision. An understanding of these qualities about him is what is happening now in corporate India.


I wonder how Gandhigiri can work in a scenario like in the film "CORPORATE" where Profit-making is the only thing on everyone's mind, even at basic costs of simple ethics.
 
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