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- Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
- ASIN: B07145TKC7
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07145TKC7
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Highlights
He exists for others; he exists for the weakest in his kingdom; he exists to help the helpless. Otherwise, — location: 74 ^ref-14048
it is not just about skill alone (turning the wilderness into a rich kingdom). It is about attitude. — location: 78 ^ref-22132
people are uncomfortable with the truth, especially when it shows them in a bad light or has consequences that could affect them adversely. — location: 94 ^ref-17049
Rama thus learns how all rules have to be contextualized. — location: 176 ^ref-35904
Rama realizes there are times when one has to strike and times when one has to forgive. — location: 180 ^ref-53182
there are situations when a king is called upon to take a tough call and situations where the king is expected to be compassionate. — location: 186 ^ref-57381
Sometimes in our obsession to be right, we lose sight of the goal and lose the game. — location: 215 ^ref-13888
in the long run, being right does not matter; winning does. — location: 217 ^ref-1880
it helps to ask what matters more—getting the other to turn around or getting oneself across the bridge. — location: 242 ^ref-5744
Winning is one thing, being right is another. We must not confuse issues. It is possible to win and be right. But when the choice is between winning and being right, one needs to choose wisely. More often than not, we prefer being right because it pampers the ego in the short term. In the long term, however, winning yields better results. — location: 243 ^ref-42297
Business leaders are heroes, like Ulysses and Hercules. They are expected to go where no one has gone before, on great solitary adventures, creating new markets, penetrating old ones, fighting the demons of opposition and emerging triumphant. — location: 255 ^ref-34253
The whole point of the game is to win—to outlast the competition, to rise above mediocrity, to create new horizons, to shatter old boundaries. — location: 257 ^ref-23842
In India, the great question was never how you can be swifter, higher and stronger, but: why should you be swifter, higher and stronger. — location: 279 ^ref-13690
The wise man worked not to indulge the ego, but to triumph over it—and this happened when one truly and sincerely worked for others. — location: 281 ^ref-9048
It is our responsibility to help more and more people live a better standard of life; — location: 284 ^ref-40272
When rules do not generate fairness, it is time to bend them, or break them, as Krishna does repeatedly in the Bhagavata and the Mahabharata. — location: 325 ^ref-11236
while generosity is fine, restraint is good too if one wants to run a household, and an organization. — location: 342 ^ref-45079
man, while capable of extreme generosity, is also capable of extreme greed. — location: 372 ^ref-16479
big market may not be big forever and the small market will eventually grow. — location: 387 ^ref-19194
Good leadership is about capacity building. A good leader is not someone who gives you the fish—he is one who teaches you how to fish. That is the first lesson of the Vishnu Purana. — location: 391 ^ref-50848
A true leader is able to harness the various forces around him to create an effective and efficient wealth-generating churn. — location: 437 ^ref-6864
While doing all this, Vishnu never bothers with Lakshmi. He is almost indifferent to her. And that is why, perhaps, she chases him. — location: 441 ^ref-60250
success is drawn not to them but to their action. The crown follows the position, not the person. To keep Lakshmi walking towards them all the time, it is important that a leader always stays a Vishnu—always balanced, always focused, always impartial, and always detached. — location: 444 ^ref-18108