#ILLUMINATION100CHALLENGE — DAY 5
Leadership & Business Lessons From the Mahabharata
Evergreen Wisdom From Ancient India
The Mahabharata is the Longest Epic in the World, written around 3000 BC. It is essentially a story about cousins fighting for the throne and the circumstances that lead to it. Power, love triangles, deceit, magical weapons — the story has everything. This is why despite being an ancient text, the leadership and management concepts from this book are relevant even today.
Some important evergreen leadership lessons are listed here in this post:
- Diverse teams win!
- Bad strategy can kill even the best products!
- Don’t be a star performer on a losing team.
- Life is unfair!
#1. Diverse Teams Win!
The main plot of the Mahabharata is the war between the Pandavas (5 brothers) and Kauravas (100 brothers). The Pandavas had only seven army battalion units whereas the Kauravas had 11 units. Despite a severe lack of resources and manpower, the Pandavas vanquished their enemies because they had a diverse set of generals and soldiers.
For example, one General was Shikhandi, a woman who had transformed into a man…
