A huge misunderstanding revolves around the personality of Kautilya, better known as Chanakya. People generally believe that he was a shrewd and cunning person. That‘s just a myth.
All Management theories and concepts are based on certain principles. These essentials are the basic foundations on which we evaluate if the manager has been efficient, the organisation productive and the objectives achieved.
In Arthashastra, you will find Chanakya instructed how power should be used, and even identified when it is being misused. At the same time, he also gave us step-by-step instructions on how a person working under a powerful person must conduct himself.