Ram Nidumolu is the founder and CEO of InnovaStrat, which provides strategic consulting services to global corporations. He is also a scholar at Stanford University s Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory and a former professor at leading US business schools.

Foreword by Chip Conley
Introduction: Being Inspired to Lead

Part 1: Being-Centered Leadership
Chapter 1: Being in Business
Chapter 2: Being Connected

Part 2: Recognition
Chapter 3: The Higher Reality of Rituals
Chapter 4: The Higher Reality of Business

Part 3: Experience
Chapter 5: Engaging with Experience
Chapter 6: Deepening the Experience

Part 4: Anchoring
Chapter 7: Anchoring in Suffering
Chapter 8: Anchoring in Well-Being

Part 5: Leading by Example
Chapter 9: Leading by Inclusion
Chapter 10: Leading as a Steward
Chapter 11: Leading as a Sage
Freedom
Conclusion: Real Business Freedom
Notes
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

The health of business is inextricably linked with the health of humanity and nature. But our current approaches to leadership treat business as entirely separate and the result has been recurring economic, environmental, and human crises.

In this extraordinary book, Ram Nidumolu uses evocative parables and stories from the ancient Indian wisdom texts, the Upanishads, to introduce Being-centered leadership. This new kind of leadership is anchored in the concept of Being, the fundamental reality that underlies all phenomena. Being-centered leaders are guided by an innate sense of interconnection the good of the whole becomes an integral part of their decisions and actions. Using the experiences of over twenty trailblazing CEOs, as well as those from his own life, Nidumolu describes a four-stage road map every aspiring leader can use to reconnect business to the wider world to the benefit of all.