At IIM Ahmedabad, students of PGP (postgraduate) and PGPX (executive postgraduate) programmes recently learnt some valuable lessons from India’s ancient fables, the Panchatantra.
The management lessons were based on the understanding and interpretation of conflict in the Panchatantra. These were initiated on an experimental basis by Professor N Ravichandran, faculty in production and quantitative methods area at IIMA.
Why Panchatantra? Because it provided an ideal vantage point for understanding conflicts involving individuals, philosophies, organisations or consciousness. “Stories in Panchatantra can be leveraged to provide useful clues to resolve all kinds of conflicts,” Prof Ravichandran said.
Read more of this in a report by Ayesha Banerjee published in Hindustan Times...
