Creativity and Human Excellence in Management Education: A Personal Odyssey

Abstract

In the wake of widespread and all-encompassing globalization, the global business scenario is increasingly being dominated by the phenomenon of market capitalism and the gospel of fierce competition. This has reduced the quest for Creativity and Human Excellence in global corporations to techno-economic pursuits with scarce attention to the deeper and higher dimensions of life and work. Pertinent questions on meaning of work and purpose of life have been pushed far beyond the margins of dominant corporate vocabulary. The present paper is a reflective article seeking to highlight the significance of search for Creativity and Human Excellence from a holistic and humanistic perspective with inspiration from the classical Eastern and Western masters like Rabindranath Tagore and Leonardo da Vinci with specific focus on lessons from these great masters for modern management. The paper ends with a Personal Story on Human Excellence through Balanced Leadership from an Indian household for promoting Enlightened Management in the twenty first century.