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What Mahabharata Teaches UsThe Mahabharata war teaches us a lot of
management lessons. The poor management of Kaurava camp led to their loss.
Let’s go in detail about what all went wrong with Kauravas.
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Strike the biggest coin:
Pandavas clearly targeted the leader of
Kaurava camp. They did not target the other warriors.
They wanted to take the chief down rather
than killing others ,
so that opposition gets demoralized (as the
biggest guy is gone),
they get confused and
get pressurized to choose a new leader.
new leader will be pressurized to deliver
great results.
Bhishma is the most powerful warrior and
the strategist of Kaurava camp. Pandavas spent first 10 days figuring out how
to take Bhishma down.
In the first ten days, Kauravas lost only 2
Akshouhini of army and Pandavas were left with only 2 Akshouhinis.
The longer the Kaurava camp had a same
leader, lower was their mortality rate.
Every succeeding commander in chief
delivered poorer results when compared to the predecessors.
Bhishma was better than Drona.
Drona was better than Karna.
Karna was better than Shalya.
When the leaders change, the strategies
change. Not every leader thinks the same way. Ballmer didn’t think like Gates.
Nadella doesn’t think like Ballmer. Army gets tired and lose energy seeing
their leaders lose and die.
Also note this: While Pandavas targeted the
biggest fish, Kauravas were targeting the youngest warrior Abhimanyu.
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Commander-in-chief doesn’t get full
freedom:
Just like a few Governments, Duryodhan
never let any of his commander-in-chiefs completely independent. He influenced
all his chiefs. So, they couldn’t deliver the best.
Even Duryodhan accuses Bhishma for not
being sincere in the war at the end of 8th day.
In Pandavas’ case, although Drishtadyumna
was the chief, he was only a figure-head. Krishna took care of the strategies
completely. Neither Dhristadhyumna, nor Yudhistra tried to influence Krishna.
They took Krishna’s words as final.
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Duryodhan misjudged Pandavas:
Duryodhan totally miscalculated the power
of Pandavas.
Check at Duryodhan’s words in the First
Chapter of Gita at the very beginning of the war.
Duryodhan says: The strength of our army is
unlimited and we are safely marshaled by Grandsire Bheeshma, while the strength
of the Pandava army, carefully marshaled by Bheem, is limited.[1]
In the first part of the above sentence,
Duryodhan says that Kaurava army was protected by Bhishma. Yes, that was true,
because Bhisma was the proclaimed commander-in-chief and also he’s the most
destructive warrior in their camp. So, this makes sense.
But, look at the second half. It reads,
Pandava army was protected by Bheema. It would have made sense, if Duryodhan
has said that Pandava army was protected by Dhrishtadhyumna or Krishna. Since,
Dhristadhyumna was the Commander-in-chief and Krishna was the strategist and
he’s the Paramathma himself.
But Duryodhan, who was obsessed with his
Arch-Rival Bheema, mentions that Bheema was protecting the camp. How misjudged
that was. How could Duryodhan forget Krishna was the guy to note!
The force the strife demands, the force he
owns, the force of foes,
The force of friends; these should he weigh
ere to the war he goes.
- Thirukkural[2]
One more example for Kaurava army’s
foolishness is Jayadrath wasted his ‘one-day invincibility power’ just to kill
the youngest Abhimanyu.
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These are some practical reasons why
Kauravas lost the war. Pandavas also had flaws from their side, but
cumulatively, Pandavas’ side acted more pro-actively
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