The Essence of Leadership by S Manikutty

Author:S Manikutty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

1Girish Karnad, (1972), Tughlaq. Delhi: Oxford University Press. The page numbers referred in this chapter are for the seventeenth impression, 1994.<AQ> Please insert the page numbers.

2His name is spelt in different ways, a common one being Mohamed. We have adopted the spelling as given in the play.

3Jaziya was a tax imposed on all non-Muslim subjects by Muslim rulers in India. Non Muslims were not considered reliable enough to join the army service, which was compulsory for Muslims, and presumably, the tax was in lieu of this obligation or for the ‘protection’ the Muslim army offered to the non Muslims. It was, needless to say, a most hated tax.

4Near the present day town of Aurangabad.

5Interestingly, Aurangzeb, the last of the Great Mughals, also spent a lot of his time, especially the latter portion of his life, in Aurangabad, trying to quell the mutinies in Deccan and control his huge empire. He died in Aurangabad, which is named after him. His mausoleum is a small unostentatious structure, far from the Taj Mahal.

6Contested by King James I of England.

7Karnad, Op. Cit., p.viii.

8Ibid., p. 3.

9Ibid., p. 4.

10Ibid., p. 8.

11Ibid., p. 80.

12Ibid., p. 10.

13Ibid., p. 2.

14Richard III, Act III, Scene 4, lines 10–14.

15Ibid., Act V, Scene 4, lines 7, 13 (he cries twice).

16Karnad, Op. Cit., p. 3.

17Ibid., p. 56.

18Ibid., p. 44.

19Tom Peters (1989), Thriving on Chaos (London: Pan Books), p. 435.

20Karnad, Op. Cit., p. 36.

21William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II, Act III, scene 1, line 3.

22Karnad, Op. Cit., p. 67.

23William Shakespeare, King Richard the Third, Act V, Scene 3, lines 202–04.

24Karnad, Op. Cit., p. 50.

25John Kotter (1982), General Managers. New York: Free Press.

26Sunil Khilnani (1997), The Idea of India. London: Hamish Hamilton.

27See M.R. Kale (1965), Mudra Rakshasa of Visakhadatta (5th edition). Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass Publishers, p.xxxvi. Kautilya means crooked.

28Some scholars believe that Chandragupta was the son of the last Nanda King by a sudra (untouchable) woman named Mura (hence the name Maurya) and was banished from the palace by the King. See ibid., p.xxv.

29Visakhadatta, Op. Cit., Act VII, line 7.

30Speech delivered at Los Angeles on 4 January, 1900. See The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Calcutta (1972), Advaita Ashram.

31Joanne B. Ciulla (1995), ‘Leadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory’, Business Ethics Quarterly, 5, p. 5–24.

32Joseph L. Badaracco (1997), Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

33Jean Paul Sartre (1948), The Dirty Hands, Act V, p. 224.

34Kale also agrees with this interpretation. See Kale, Op. Cit., p.xxxv.

35Visakhadatta, Op. Cit., Act VII, line 18.

36See Larry E. Greiner (1972), ‘Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow’, Harvard Business Review, January-April, p. 37–46.

37Alfred P. Sloan (1964), My Years with General Motors. Garden City, New York: Double Day, Chapter 2.

38Time, (2008), ’Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership’, July 21, 2008, p. 24.

39See Joanne B. Ciulla, ‘Ethics and Leadership Effectiveness’ ’in John Antonakis, Anna Ciannalo & Robert J. Steinberg (Eds.) (2004), The Nature of Leadership, Chapter 13. London: Sage Publications.

40See Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi: A Biography, Part VI, Chapter 4. Delhi: Viking 1972.

41Ibid., Part VI, Chapter 5.

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