There are books that teach. Books that preach. And then there are books that awaken. Dr. Smruti Ranjan Nayak’s Battlefield to Boardroom belongs to that rare third category — the kind that doesn’t merely speak to your intellect but reaches deep into your conscience and whispers, “Lead, but with purpose.”
I remember pausing midway through the first chapter — somewhere between Krishna’s calm counsel on the battlefield and a CEO’s boardroom dilemma — and realizing how eerily similar the two worlds were. Both are arenas of chaos, both demand courage, and both test the spirit far more than the strategy. That’s when I understood what Dr. Nayak, an Oxford- and Harvard-educated thought leader, was truly offering — not another “leadership guide,” but a soulful reimagining of the Gita for a world that measures success by quarterly profits and forgets the currency of integrity.
The premise is deceptively simple yet profoundly moving. What if the answers to today’s corporate and personal dilemmas — burnout, competition, ethical confusion — were already scripted five millennia ago on a dusty battlefield in Kurukshetra? Through six beautifully crafted principles, Nayak decodes that ancient wisdom and translates it into modern management lessons that don’t sound preachy or…
