Bhagvad-Gita and Mahabharatha provide great examples to manage our daily lives. I was told that Philp Kotler used "Bhagvad-Gita" to write his books. I dont know how much of this is true.
We Indians have a wrong frame of mind to devote time to all these epics after retirement. Sitting in a balcony seeing our grand kids playing, we would like to read Mahabharatha!!!!
I would differ and say that these are stories that shape our lives to face the world of competition. We should read these epics and interpret it to our lives on an on-going basis.
Just to quote
1. Jarasandha - Who was accusing Krishna, got 100 chances to rectify. We must provide people enough scope and time (Chances) to correct them selves, then comes terminitaion. Which also shows that Krishna was counting loudly showing that feedback was provided at every instance.
2. Bheeshma dies because of human psychology. We tend to hear what we want and not what was told. An elephant dying was heard as Aswathamma dying. Here we see how people use words to manipulate things and present what is needed than what is true.
Just like saying. 700 titanic passangers reached the shore safely and not mentioning that the Ship was wrecked.
There are so many instances where these can be interpreted to today's context and used in our managerial lives. Since these come to us as stories, we tend to put names to faces and remember them easily.
I am planning to summarize these kinds of stories. Anyone who have similar experiences can share so that we can make this a modern epic.
Best regards
Harsha