Modern Management can learn a lot from the varios personalities in Mahabharatha. Each character conveys a particular trait so essential for an Organizations success. It also conveys that an organization has to have multiple skill sets blended together by a common thread to succeed.
Yudhishtira embodies ethics and value system. He attaches lot of importance on propriety and sets high personal standards. Bhima is the executor. For Yudhishtira, both 'Lakshyam' (Goal) and 'Margam' (Path to achieve the goal) matters. Bhima, on the other hand, believes only in attaining the Goal using might at any cost. For him, the end justifies the means. Arjuna is the multi skilled General Manager Strategy & Operations. He, with his key adviser Krishna, plans and executes with precision. He is the charismatic leader everyone looks upto in the battle-field. The man for a crisis and the one, the subordinates are in awe of. Sahadeva is the dreamer visionary knowledge bank. Even Yudhishtira turns to him for advice in times of need. Nakula is the service provider, who offers support services to others. The quintessential backroom boy. Even the eldest of the Pandavas, Karna, can be likened to the skilled executive who is blinded by the loyalty to his superior, which led to his doom. We can see many like him in today's Corporate World. The yes men, who knows the boss is wrong, but who owes his position to the boss (Karna was crowned King of Angarajyam by Duryodhanan when he was humiliated by Dronacharya and hence his loyalty) and hence couldnt come to tell him that he is wrong. He is the possessor of considerable vanity and an inferiority complex, that proves to be his undoing, despite his considerable skill sets. And like his contemporaries in the Corporate world, he ends up being an underperformer and fails.
