HANUMAN-TOP CLASS MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Competence, Courage, Communication, Commitment and Compass are known 5 Cs of corporate leadership skills and requirements. In critical meetings with CEO for performance evaluation of senior managers to identify marked class skilled personnel to be put on fast track for their promotions and identifying potential leaders for running the corporation, above five Cs are usually examined on a scale of one to ten and their ranks determined.

Competence is skills and qualifications and compass is integrity and the rest are straight forward. Hanunman's 4 Cs are well known to all of us and let us look at his 5^th C, the communication skills. A scene from Ramayana, Rama and Lakshmana while walking in search of Sita meet Hanuman who is in the disguise of a Brahmin, for the first time in Kiskinda where he was living with Sugriva in exile. The moment he sets his eyes on Rama he identifies he is the only guy qualified to restore back the throne to my boss Sugriva and carefully addresses them and examines the brothers from Ayodhya. When he finishes his initial address Kamban says Rama asks Lakshmana Who is this master of words, embodiment of speaking skill. Such was the wisdom of Maruti's words Rama melted like a butter and was ready to sign any agreement even at the cost of his reputation as he realised Hanuman is the essential minister for the job at hand " locating and bringing back Sita".

Again another situation In the Ramayana, Vibishana with four his trusted aides were waiting for an answer from Rama whether his surrender will be accepted. Rama calls for an emergency discussion with his top core group of Generals - Whether to take Vibhishina or not - Sugriva, Jambhavan and Neelan say "No" and justifies with valid and sound reasons for not taking him - Rama then looks at Pawana Putran, Vayu Kumaran, Bajrang Vali for his opinion and Veer Hanuman starts slowly analysing the situation. He says "Yes" - take him along and explains why? In Yudha kanda, it is attributed to Maruti negating other senior’s opinion but taking the entire leadership with his wisdom and logic and is the best piece of oratory in Ramayan. Rama and others are spell bound when he finishes and Rama readily consents and endorses his desire to follow Hanuman’s advice. There are many more examples of Hanuman's management skill (The entire Sundra Kand is of his exploits, courage, commitment and decision making skills and assessment skills) that includes a beautiful one man commission report to Rama on his return from Lanka. Hanuman gets excellent result on his strategy of management and easily tops the list on performance evaluation.