Making wise decisions: leadership lessons from Mahabharata

Year
2014
Publication details

Journal of Management Development

Author
Prasad L Kaipa
Author's Credentials
Kaipa Group and the Indian School of Business, Campbell, California, USA
Management Discipline
Leadership
Source
Mahabharata
Issue

The author draws lessons from the four stories and highlighting the key challenges in decision making – developing spiritual discernment to support logic based and emotion-laden decision making. The framework for developing discernment by using intuition, instinct and emotions along with data effectively can help leader using this framework make wise decisions.