What if some of the most powerful lessons in leadership are not found in management textbooks, but in the people around us? Corporate Mahabharata by Sanjeev Punn brings the timeless characters, conflicts, and human dilemmas of the Mahabharata into the modern corporate world.
Drawing on more than three decades of corporate experience, Punn explores how the behaviours and motivations represented in the Mahabharata continue to appear in today’s workplaces. Leaders, performers, advisers, loyalists, challengers, influencers, and decision-makers can all reflect familiar patterns of ambition, loyalty, power, conflict, resilience, and judgement.
The book goes beyond simply comparing corporate personalities with mythological characters. Instead, it uses these characters as mirrors through which readers can examine behaviour, understand its consequences, and reflect on their own choices. Its BOSS • TEAM • SELF framework, practical Ready Reckoners, character-to-character transitions, and Corporate Kurukshetra Test turn these timeless narratives into tools for leadership reflection.
Whether navigating organisational politics, leading teams, managing difficult relationships, building influence, or making challenging decisions, readers are encouraged to consider not only the characters they encounter at work, but also the character they themselves become.
Sanjeev Punn, a corporate professional, leadership thinker, and author, began his professional journey in 1991. His lifelong fascination with the Mahabharata, nurtured by his grandparents and family, gradually evolved into a distinctive lens for understanding leadership and human behaviour.
Corporate Mahabharata invites readers to recognise behaviour, examine choices, and look at leadership through a deeper human lens—where judgement, relationships, and consequences matter as much as position.