World-renowned business educator and coach Marshall Goldsmith said the Bhagavad Gita is a great model for understanding how to lead in times of crisis.
Arjuna has two choices in the Gita – bad and bad. He is talking to Krishna, and in the conversation says that this is bad and it is even worse. The message is that one confronts the hard reality that ‘what is, is’ exists. You cannot change ‘what is’. Sometimes, you have to make a very difficult choice.
Number two – let go of the past. “We cannot change the past. You cannot work on fixing the past. It’s a complete waste of time. Rather, develop a clear strategy – where I am going and why. Do your best, and don’t get attached to the results. The main point of the Bhagavad Gita is not attachment to results. You cannot control things that have happened in the past, and you cannot 100% control what will happen in the future. Every minute, am I the person I wanted to be right now and doing my best,” said Goldsmith, who for eight years has been ranked as the world’s No. 1 executive coach and top ten business thinker .
It has been very challenging for people in recent times, but at the same time there is a need to be positive and optimistic. Look to the future, and don’t dwell on the past. A great philosophy in leading in times of crisis is ‘practical optimism’, and one of its great inspirations is the Bhagavad Gita, he said in his keynote address on Leading in Times of Crisis: Proven Processes for Positive Change at Tycon Chennai 2021. – The 14th edition of Tycon.
Entrepreneurs and thinkers are speaking at the five-day virtual conference that began on Monday.
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