Int. J. Indian Culture and Business Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2009

Management lessons from the epics is now commonplace — hello, Devdutt Patnaik. This paper analyses Kannadasan’s song from Aandavan Kattalai for lessons on leadership.

“…the purpose of this article is to explore the leadership perspective from Indian literature works such as from the re-known works of Poet Kannadasan. His literary work contains essential planks for leadership development in the Indian (Tamilan) context.”

It uses Indian and Tamilian interchangeably. It argues that Kannadasan’s approach is in line with eastern philosophy as ‘against’ modern western philosophy. And it references Arindam Chaudhuri for good measure.

PDF available on Research Gate, if you are into it