The Class Act: Learn Teach Be

by Debashis Chatterjee

Every Chandragupta needs a Chanakya. Why? We all need our missing halves to fulfill us. The day needs the night to refresh itself through sleep. The night needs the day to awaken to the world of new possibilities. When you are immature, you want maturity to be by your side. When you are too mature, you need somebody adventurous and innocent to be with you to learn how to mature. When you have a restless Arjuna, you need the stabilising wisdom of Krishna. When you have a Krishna, you need an Arjuna to awaken and arise to act on that wisdom. So, these complementarities have to come together-like day and night; spring and winter. A teacher can bring that missing touch in the evolving life of a student.

168 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Professor Debashis Chatterjee has taught leadership classes at Harvard University and at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) of Calcutta, Lucknow and Kozhikode for nearly three decades.The longest-serving director of a first-generation IIM, he was reappointed to head IIM Kozhikode for a third five-year term in June 2023. Prof. Chatterjee has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard University. A prolific author, he has published fiction and non-fiction, including Leading Consciously, Krishna: The 7th Sense and Timeless Leadership, which have been translated into several national and international languages. He has taught the art and practice of leadership to more than hundred thousand managers globally in Fortune 500 corporations and over fifty thousand school leaders. Prof. Chatterjee is credited with transforming a small-town B-school into an institution of global recognition that is now counted among the top three IIMs in India and the top seventy-five management schools worldwide according to the Financial Times rankings. He can be reached at:

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