Sreedharan would gift each officer at the executive level a copy of the Bhagavad Gita with Swamy Vidya Prakashananda’s interpretation at the time of their recruitment. The Swamy belonged to the Sri Suka Brahma Ashram of Kalahasti in Andhra Pradesh. The gift undoubtedly communicated to its recipients what Sreedharan expected of them, and became an infinite source of motivation at DMRC. Sreedharan did not distribute the Gita to endorse a particular religion in his organization. He cherished the work as the foundational document of management practices with which to run DMRC. There was no better
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