Effective Leadership – A Ramayana Perspective

Almost every other day we keep coming across horrifying and disturbing incidents through print and visual media. In such a disconcerting backdrop, two individual traits of Lord Rama, namely un-agitated thinking process and patience, become all the more relevant and contextual. This paper thematically analyzed famous epic “Ram Charit Manas”, written by Goswami Tulsidas . He neatly delineates these two traits of leadership by deftly using the medium of Lord Rama. Goswami Tulsidas, using the medium of Lord Rama‟s persona, underscored a number of traits for effective leadership. Out of so many traits and dimensions of Shri Rama, he zeroed in on equanimity and patience to be of critical significance. Shri Rama exhibits that definitive quality of sobriety even as a precocious child. He respects all beings and obeys his parents and gurus cheerfully. Shri Rama remains even-headed even under adverse circumstances, and patiently resolves all the problems at hand. In this paper an attempt is being made to enunciate Goswami Tulsidas‟s take on “art of management” in specific context of these two traits, which he expounded by narrating how Shri Rama responded exhibiting these traits under adverse and unfavorable circumstances.