Effective management control or strategy execution requires striking balance and managing tensions across the organization (Simmons, 2000). Merchant, 2002, classifies the cause of execution failures as imbalance on three different fronts, namely, Direction, Motivation (misalignments) and Ability or personal limitations. The victory of The Pandavas over The Kauravas in The Indian Epic Mahabharata dated some 3000 B C, despite arguably superior ability of the later provides interesting insights on how those causes were managed. The practices and preaches of Sri Krishna, the mentor in the epic Mahabharata, offer some interesting lessons on how the causes of management control failure in Kauravas lead to victory of Pandavas. Pandavas camp demonstrated balance on The Direction, Motivation and Ability framework identified here and thus created a winning organization. The Mind Body diagnosis framework (Sathe & Smart 1997), a powerful tool to 'winning organizations' is quite close to this. The framework also compares well with Krishna Arjuna framework a.k.a. KAF (Parashar 2006), that right visioning and focused action leads to victory amongst equal and focused action requires competent people and compatible team. The win-without-fighting- strategy (Hao Ma 2003) and need for common purpose and harmony (Fernandez, 2004) in Art of War by Sun Tzu as well demonstrates and compares with the DMA framework and the Mahabharata, along with modern literature and thinking on strategy implementation. We observe general consensus in thinking about key to the strategy implementation across modern and ancient literature. Moreover the contribution ropes the use of mythology metaphors for management training and development on strategy and management control to drive effective implementation.