Karma Sutras Quotes

“So how about the first step?’
‘The first step is the most critical step, as the first button of your coat. If you get that wrong, the whole alignment of buttons is gone for a toss.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Leadership is much more than hitting the bull’s eye. There is a large human component in leadership behaviour Young managers have to explore hitting deeper chords in human nature rather than just hitting targets.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“The only way middle managers can survive is by virtue of their expertise which cannot be substituted by machines anymore. In short, organizations will preside over the funeral of most middle managers in the times to come.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Higher virtues are at some elemental level nothing more or less than deeply appreciating laws of nature that enable harmony and functioning of life—see reality as it is (commitment to the truth), take no more than you need (waste not, want not), do not control unnecessarily (hierarchical power should be used only when local solutions are not possible, what 17th-century philosophers called the principle of ‘subsidiarity’) and balance action with non-action (the power of presence, true listening and non-intervention).”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“love generates our social and parental instincts, builds friendships, unites lovers and creates an affinity between people in organizations. In the larger spiritual realm, love raises the human organism beyond the pursuit of physical and social needs towards a greater integration with the cosmos.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. (Gibran 1970)”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Power in an organization is the capacity generated by relationships.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Three of the most unused critical tools in the arsenal for growth of new managers are listening, observing and failing.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times