With  the successful Conduction of ISOL 2018 Conference Commemorating 125 years of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago lecture with the support of all.

ISOL acknowledges the support extended by ISOL 2018 USA Steering Committee and all the committees are dissolved now.

No commitment or agreement by any person other than Founder of ISOL Foundation will be binding on ISOL henceforth. This is for general information of all.

Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership Foundation (ISOL Foundation) is an initiative that started in 2007 with a focus to emphasize the role of spiritual values in enriching enterprises for creating sustainable, non-violent and non-exploitative organizations where the entire stakeholder get satisfaction by a meaningful and trust based association.

In the race for financial gains, modern business theories have lost touch with the basic tenets of moral, spiritual and ethical values. The values that religions have infused into humanity have been thwarted in recent years. At this crucial juncture, we need to look forward by integrating religious institutions into integrated development and applications of spirituality and ethics to develop a consensus on Human Consciousness in Management Systems and global economic development.

The world Parliament of Religions in 1893 was the first attempt to bring the east – west spiritual traditions into one platform to discuss the problems of the world. In the 19th Century in India a Sage – Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa (the spiritual master of Swami Vivekananda, who was one of the speakers in the 1893 World Congress), after practicing all the religions, boldly declare – “As many views so many paths but God is one” and talked about the fellowship of religion for the religion of humanity. This is the core of the initiatives taken by ISOL Foundation.

As a prelude to Commemorating Quasi Centenary Celebrations of Chicago Lecture delivered by Swami Vivekananda on September 11, 1893 ISOL Foundation (India) organized the 5th International Conference on Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership during September 11-13, 2015 in the same hall and at the same venue (The Oriental Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago) with the same ethos (interfaith perspective) to discuss ‘Spirituality for Global Economic Development’. The Conference had the moral support and encouragements from the Council for a Parliament of World’s Religions, Chicago and Ramakrishna Mission & Math, Belur, Kolkata, India.

ISOL Foundation as the core body instituted Vedic Foundations of Indian Management and Academy for Value Based Management thus creating avenues for the scholars from different parts of India and the world to converge and create a systematic approach in the respective areas.

We at ISOL attempt to rekindle the same philosophy in the minds of people by including academicians, environmentalists, spiritualists, thinkers, scientists and representations from business houses, business associations and civil societies.

ISOL Foundation (India) is now organizing the World Congress on Vedic Foundations of Management Science during September 11-13, 2018 to commemorate 125 years of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago Lecture in the same city of Chicago.

The Conference will be hosted by ISOL Global Foundation.

ISOL 2018: World Congress on
Vedic Foundations of Management Science

The Focus

The Congress will focus on various thematic Tracks related to Vedic Foundations of Management Science and the contributions of Swami Vivekananda, his Master Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Sanga Janani – Ma Sharda along with Sister Nivedita.

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Vedic Foundations of Indian Management:
An ISOL Research Initiative

The Power of Vedic Values in Modern Business Management

The Spirit

According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book ‘The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective’ published by the OECD Development Center in Paris in 2001, India had the world’s largest economy in the 1st century and 11th century and in the 18th century, with a 32.9% share of the world GDP in the 1st century and 28.9 % in the 1000 AD, and in 1700 AD with 24.4%.

The known economic history of India begins with Indus Valley Civilization that was the first known permanent and predominantly urban settlement that flourished between 2800 BC to 1800 BC and had an advanced and thriving economic system. One of the ways to search the alternative paradigms in management and leadership is going back to our roots—ancient Indian culture and traditions. Vedas are the sources of knowledge from Indian Wisdom. The Vedic principles are objective and supported by creative potential of Natural Law. It has universal application. The Vedic Foundations of Indian Management envisages enabling the managers to create new order of conscience based management based on Vedic insights.

Brief Background

Vedic Foundation of Indian Management (VFIM) is a unit of ISOL Research Foundation. ISOL Research Foundation (http://isol-research.asia) is dedicated and committed to carry out researches on Indic and Vedic Studies to discover and discuss ancient business models in modern context and promote indigenous model of management and entrepreneurship. Under the umbrella of ISOL Research Foundation, three Centres namely ISOL Centre for Integral Healing, ISOL Centre for Consciousness Studies and Vedic Foundation of Indian Management, working unanimously to enlighten corporate citizenship behaviour and promote practicing good governance. VFIM proposes a system as against the modern economic system by delving into the cultural intelligence of the ancient Indian wisdom tradition in an effort to seek an alternate paradigm in management and leadership. Since the Ancient Vedic texts preserves the treasures of knowledge within, VFIM draws out the science and technology invested in the Vedic texts.

VFIM—Embracing the Vedic Modules for Modern Management

VFIM proposes a system supporting the modern economic system by delving into the cultural intelligence of the ancient Indian wisdom tradition in an effort to seek an alternate paradigm in management science. Since the Ancient Vedic texts preserves the treasures of knowledge within, VFIM draws out the science and technology invested in the Vedic texts.

With a vision to promote indigenous models of management based on four main Vedas, this Center carries out prolific researches and organizes national and international conferences on Vedic foundations of Indian management and the relevance of Vedic texts in modern management. It also seeks to promote awareness about the wisdom of ancient scriptures and discuss ancient business model in various concepts based on Vedic Literature and Vedic Management leading to the great enhancement of modern management and entrepreneurship.

ADDRESS:

Clarion Inn

Waterford Banquets and Conference Center

933 S Riverside De,

Elmhurst,

IL 60126

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