Inside Chanakya's Mind: Aanvikshiki and the Art of Thinking

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Chanakya was one of the best strategic thinkers of the world. In the fourth century Bc, he wrote the Arthashastra, an unrivalled political treatise that has since been used by leaders across the globe. In Inside Chanakya's Mind, Radhakrishnan Pillai uses the practical and innovative approach he is known for to distil for the masses Chanakya's age-old wisdom on how to think.

Radhakrishnan Pillai is a management speaker and strategy consultant with nearly twenty-five years of experience and over 200 articles and papers to his credit. He has a PhD in the Arthashastra from the University of Mumbai. Currently the deputy director of the university's leadership science programme, Pillai has taught in many prestigious institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge, Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management. He has represented India at the World Congress of Philosophy in Athens, the Academy of Management in San Antonio, Texas, and the Indian Philosophical Congress. He received the International Sardar Patel Award in 2009 and the Aavishkar Chanakya Innovation Research Award in 2013 for his contribution to the field of management and industrial development. Pillai is considered one of the top thirty Indian management thinkers globally by Thinkers50. His books include the bestselling Corporate Chanakya, Chanakya in You, Chanakya's Seven Secrets of Leadership (with D. Sivanandhan), Katha Chanakya and Chanakya in Daily Life. He can be reached at rchanakyapillai@gmail.com.