Management Lessons from Mahabharata: A Book for Anyone Who Aspires to Become a More Effective Leader

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Mahabharata is the biggest epic ever written ages ago. Mahabharata has some important lessons for the corporate world also. The practices and preaching of lord Krishna, offer some interesting leadership lessons. Similarly, one can learn number of lessons like loyalty, commitment, ethics, governance, charity from different characters of Mahabharata. This book is a collection of more than hundred such Lessons from corporate management perspective. The Book will help anyone who wants to manage their business or state and ethically effectively.

Dr. Pratik C Patel has a rich teaching experience of more than 15 years at UG and PG level. He has done his Ph. D in Celebrity Endorsement. He has published more than 30 research papers in the journals of repute. He has 3 books to his credit namely learning strategic management through case study, Caselets in strategic management and Contemporary issues in Marketing and Finance. Business strategy and Marketing management is his forte and he admires case study approach of teaching a lot.

Dr. Patel is presently associated with B.R.C.M. College of Business Administration; a constituent institute of Sarvajanik University. The author can be reached at.

What is found in Mahabharata may be found elsewhere but what is not found in Mahabharata cannot be found elsewhere.

The above sentence rightly highlights the significance of the epic Mahabharata for mankind.

Mahabharata is the biggest epic ever written ages ago.

Still, it is relevant even today in every sphere of life.

Mahabharata has some important lessons for the corporate world also.

The practices and preaching of lord Krishna, offer some interesting leadership lessons. Similarly, one can learn loyalty and commitment from Bheeshma and Dronacharya, single minded focus from Arjuna, ethics and governance from Yudhisthira, charity and kindness from Karna, righteousness from Gandhari and so on.

There are some important lessons from negative characters of Mahabharata also. The life of Dhritarashtra, Duryodhana and Shakuni teach us that one should avoid nepotism, manipulation and revengeful act at work place.

I feel extremely happy to write a foreword to this book on Management Lessons from Mahabharata authored by Dr. Pratik C Patel, my brilliant research scholar.

Mahabharata is one of the oldest epics of Hindu mythology full of incidents that provide moral and ethical lessons. These moral and ethical values greatly inspire and teach the present generation and provide guidance and direction in the situations when there is a dilemma. It has significant implications for the managers, who have to manage manpower and other resources, devise strategies, make decisions and thus to lead their firms on a growth trajectory.

The author has rightly identified the characters and the incidents from Mahabharata epic and has very aptly extracted lessons that the manager needs to learn to provide an affirmative push to whatever they might have learnt from the modern literature on management. It thus, supplements the knowledge the managers and executives have gained through formal education in the area of management.