The book moves effortlessly from Peter Drucker and James March of Stanford University to Rama, the prathama bhashi of the Ramayana and Bhishma s advice on the Art of Kingship to Yudhishtira in Santi Parva of the Mahabharatha. The first section includes explorations and well-researched discussions on emerging areas of management like HRM in the 21st Century; Knowledge Management and HRM; Empowerment of Employees; Glass Ceiling; Reverse Discrimination; Organizational Strategy; Landscape of IHRM. The second section Managing knowledge workers presents with great lucidity the requirements of a leader in the modern context, with a scholarly looking back on the characteristics laid down in the past. The author alludes to the different types of leadership forceful leadership; enabling leadership; strategic leadership; and operational leadership. In the third section Leadership in Knowledge Economy Sri Murty spreads his perspective over time present and time past and finds blazing examples of leadership in Rama. The author shows that story telling, the living tradition since times immemorial, is quite in place for inspiring and motivating the employees. He cites the eloquence of Mark Antony, which turned the tide against the conspirators in Julius Caesar and the grit and determination, in the face of enveloping gloom during Great Depression, of Ma Joad in Steinbeck s epic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, to clinch the argument that stories help in putting essentials of management across to the people around. A close study of the collection will help an individual reader to achieve Self-actualization, what the Greeks call Arete, so that such integrative approach can usher in a world of true cultural globalization and emotional integration.