A short but interesting presentation from which we can learn management lessons, can use for training & development workshops at workplace in a form of all time interesting stories of PANCHTANTRA.

1. LESSONS FROM
PANCHTANTRA
STRATEGY:1
LOSS OF FRIENDS

2. What is Panchatantra?
 Panchatantra - Panch is Five and Tantra is
Strategy
 These five strategies or rather say parts are:
1. Loss of Friends
2. Gaining Friends
3. Of crows and Owls (War and Peace)
4. Loss of Gains
5. Imprudence
 In the first part let’s begin with the story….

4.  A merchant once started
building a temple in the middle
of his garden. Many masons
and carpenters were working
for the merchant.
 They took time off every day to go to the town
for their lunch.
 One day, when the workers left for lunch a batch
of monkeys landed at the temple site and began
playing with whatever caught their fancy.

5. Cont…
 One of the monkeys saw a partly sawed log of
wood and a wedge fixed in it so that it does not
close up.
 Curious to know what it is, the monkey began
furiously tugging at the wedge. At last the
wedge came off, not before trapping the legs
of the monkey into the rift of the log. Very
soon, not able to get his legs out of the closed
wood, the monkey died.

6. Monkey and the wedge
 “It is not wise to poke our
nose into affairs that are
not our concern”
 Look at the disadvantages of the situation and take
care that it does not accelerate
 Don’t be curious that leads to problems, Don’t act
before you know the whole situation

7.  Must know the target, and the situation well in
advance
 Know pros – cons
 Make efforts to learn before blind experiment
 Follow procedures – investigation, planning, safety
 It is carpenter’s duty while leaving behind the
unsafe work in process, Don’t act without thinking
 Don’t leave work before completion which leads to
unwanted costs

8.  External Analysis before planning, Clear
instruction should be passed by merchant
regarding monkey and the environment
(Leadership, Communication), Keen
observation, at the time of trouble don’t behave
madly, do something new under master’s/
superior’s guidance, before removing any blocks
– cause & effect analysis, over curiosity is
dangerous

9.  Story reference:
http://panchatantra.org/the-loss-of-friends/the-monkey-and-the-wedge-
1.html