Election results of couple of Indian states are out and largely there are clear mandates in all states. So, there are not many permutations and combinations happening for forming governments. I was wondering about the elections, results and post results – five years. The long term thoughts (five years after results) were hampered by a news of rabble rousing activities in UP. Does the confidence of victory create so much defiance that people do not mind taking law in their hands or crossing the limits?
This question lets me ask myself – what do we need? Politicians or leaders? Are politicians really leaders? I was thinking about this and on LinkedIn I read a question. IF YOU HAVE GOOD STRATEGY, DO YOU STILL NEED A LEADER?
Can a good strategy create a leader or leaders can create effective strategies? My answer is leaders can create effective strategies. Also, I heard someone say – An army of sheep led by a lion are more to be feared than an army of lions led by a sheep.
I was talking to Prof Ramanathan, he told me “…Pravin I see there is a lack of leadership at various levels, be it corporate or others…”
The fact of the matter is the crisis is wide spread are we creating leaders? Are we creating excel, power point and ivory tower experts of solutions? When I read the book – I have a dream I realized that there are people who took initiatives, who rolled their sleeves and got down to work. There may be many more not covered in the book, yet how many of us have become leaders after studying at Ivy league?
Recently, I met Prof Mankad, we discussed Greek crisis and the visible solutions to it. He made a good observation on the economic power of China that made me think – having and managing power requires a sense of responsibility and ability to be fair. This ability requires courage and confidence to say – ‘yes I erred’ when one did commit mistake. Does our education teach kids to have these qualities?
2 Comments
Rummuser · March 8, 2012 at 11:11 pm
You must give credit where it is due Pravin http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/article2971468.ece
Leaders in India are synonymous with goondas.
KRD Pravin · March 11, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Dear uncleji, the thought of writing a blog on leadership was long due. In the blog I am referring to a discussion with Prof Ramanathan happened in 2011 April, somewhere between 25th-30th.
🙂 I did not copy or take idea from the article of ‘The Hindu’. On a lighter note – in fact they should refer to my blog as reference. I wrote this blog post on 7th March and the article you are quoting is 8th March ;).