Our
ancient spiritual guides or maharishis have illustrated a lot about the use of
management in every day’s living. . In all organizations, where a
group of people assembles for the accomplishment of some common goal and objective,
irrespective of caste, religion and creed, these principles are bequeathed
through the management of resources, financial planning, priorities, strategies
and practices. People have accepted that the globally famous companies have
adopted the best management practices to run their organizations. Some organizations
have faced the infant mortality rate. According to the study made by Geus in
1997, in his book The Living Company,
1 that the most of the renowned organizations are found unhealthy. According to
the study, the average life of Fortune
500 was 40-50 years. One third of organizations which were listed in Fortune 500 in 1997 were nowhere to be found by 1983 and 40% of all newly
established organizations lasted for less than 10 years. A careful study of Holy
Gita and Sundarkand edifies us about the important principles that a manager
must learn to create long lived organizations. Both
illustrate the implementation of a very difficult task. These saintly epics
reveal that the essential requirements of high-quality management are contained
in Bhagwad Gita and Sundarkand. They enlighten us to turn our weakness into
strength, to know our inter-personal as well as intrapersonal skills. Sri Ram
as a Boss motivated Hanuman ji, the chief of monkeys to go to Lanka in search
of Devi Sita to get a message from her and come back. And
at another side Shree Krishna teaches Arjuna that how his aim in life
can be achieved; howsoever it might be so hard to solve the conflicts between
emotions and intellect. Gita teaches Sincerity, Honesty and Truthfulness etc as
it shows how we can grab the opportunity as of the challenges. One of the most obvious incidences, in which
management principles are clearly stated is in the canto where Hanuman ji going
to Lanka. His mission was to locate Devi Sita to convey Lord Ram’s message.
When it became clear that Sita was in Lanka, Jamvant asked Hanuman to go there.
He helped him in realising his true potential and motivated him to go in the
enemy’s camp. Arjuna got disheartened when he perceived his
relatives with whom he had to fight, to motivate him the Bhagavad-Gita was preached
to Arjuna in the battle field Kurukshetra by Lord Krishna as counseling to do
his duty while huge number of men stood by waiting. Arjuna faced the dilemma of
divergence between his intellect and emotions. In almost all of the cases,
emotions win. Only a very few people have a conflict-free emotion and
intellect. For one who has controlled his mind, there is wisdom and meditation.
There can be no happiness without peace. Sorrow and anger blasts all the five
senses of an individual. The person who is without vision or sixth sense is
just like a ship without the radar. Management is the converter of knowledge
into action.
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