Chapter 6

Leadership and Change

Opening Case: Two Men in the Early Morning

It was early morning. Two men were driving a chariot through a huge field. The one who was driving and also looked the older of the two glanced at his co-passenger, who seemed to be sad, gloomy and confused.

 

—‘What’s the matter with you? Why are you so uncomfortable?’ the driver asked.

 

— ‘I … I don’t know. But I am sure I will not be able to do what you want me to. It is absolutely impossible! Let me go away’, pleaded the younger one.

‘Look Partha, do what I have asked you to do. Kill all these men who are already dead and win the war’. The elder one told firmly though at the same time he was genuinely concerned. ‘Do what I have asked you to do, Partha!’ he urged ...

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