In Five Seats of Power, Raghu Ananthanarayanan uses insights from the Yoga Sutras and the Mahabharata to offer principles and practices to enable behavioural transformation. Transformation that in turn will ignite an individual's natural genius. He presents each of the five Pandavas - Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva as an archetype of a particular kind of power: of order and stability, of passion and action, of compassion & service, knowledge & curiosity and of Dharma Sankata & integration respectively. Drawing on each of these archetypal energies, he explores the functional and dysfunctional aspects of the use of power. He examines how in order to mobilize one's heroic potential, a person must celebrate their desirable qualities while resolving the dark and compulsive energies within themselves.

Through this contemporary retelling of the Myth, Raghu Ananthanarayanan has brought more than a 100 years of consulting experience (his own and that of his colleagues) in working with individuals, helping transform themselves and their organizations. This interactive Kit recreates the experiential learning methods they have deployed with great success. Entering this quest to become a hero in one’s own eyes is the gift of a lifetime.

This book takes a close look at the underlying axioms of Organization Design and Alignment that have not only proliferated rigid structures and oppressive hierarchies, but have also rendered employees worldwide as mere instruments and dehumanized the organizational context.

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By looking at an organizational system as inherently a Tensegrity structure, an architectural paradigm vitalized by Buckminister Fuller, the book offers the reader insights into the dynamic tensions, role-holding, and dialogue possibilities that pervade the modern organization across stakeholders such as investors, customers, employees, and the ecology.

This book chronicles the explorations and insights of leading consultants and co-founders of Sumedhas Academy for Human Context in the realm of Organization Development (OD) and Managing Change. With over three decades of experience in Institutional Building and enabling global and Indian organizations to create a better tomorrow, the perspectives and practices presented by each author explicate philosophy, approaches, and frameworks that are immensely relevant to the OD practitioner today.

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The authors seek to anchor and co-hold the pulls of rigor and pragmatics from the realms of academia, personal values, and deployment. The book underlines the spirit of the institution of Sumedhas - humanness, its expression and unfolding in individual and collective endeavours. The book echoes the collaborative voice of the spirit, while valuing each author's creativity and journey over the years.

The central mission of this book is to explore ways by which we can ensure a 100% deployment of human potential in organizations. This can be the only goal for organization culture that will support initiatives like "zero defect", "zero waste", Lean, JIT, TPM & TQM. The author uses seminal ideas from the Indian traditions such as alignment of thought, feeling and action at a personal and collective level. This fresh and original approach to organization building is illustrated through detailed case studies. The book offers many mental maps which have come out of the consulting practice of the author and are therefore both practical and powerful. A path breaking approach to culture building, this is a must have for any manager serious about the human dimension of organization.

This book, containing over 500 pictures, will appeal to every level of yoga enthusiast, as it integrates the philosophy of yoga with our daily practice. Through a systematic and simple approach, it helps us see how yoga can be put into action. The book will particularly delight the inquisitive mind that is seeking to place these timeless truths within the frame of the modern day lifestyle.