DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU
DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU
BY SHUBHAM BUDHIRAJA
29/10/2018
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Mahatama
Gandhi, Nelson Mandela , Jack ma, Steve
Jobs , what do all have in Common ? They
all were READERS.
LEADERS
ARE READERS
READERS
ARE LEADERS
Question.1 – What is
the meaning of Leadership?
Answer.1- The term
Leadership is highly subjective nomenclature. If we go through the Literal
meaning of this term, we can make an inference that it refers to lead some
individual or individuals. However if we get into more technical meaning of
said term:
a)
Leadership is the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or
entire organizations. ( Wikipedia )
b)
Leadership is an art (not
science) of influencing, motivating, inspiring, and transforming people (human
resources) towards achieving organizational goals.
c)
Sanskrit literature identifies ten types of leaders.
Defining characteristics of the ten types of leaders are explained with
examples from history and mythology.
Few Pertinent references:
1.
One of Most indispensable unit of
Leadership is – Recognition of
Uncertainty:
Leadership
require one very important character which is to recognize the uncertainty.
i.e. to keep always in mind that nothing remains to be forever and everything
is bound to change. No firm remain in loss for life and same is for profit
periods.
a)
This character is so essential that its references
can be view in Mahabharta – There is an
episode in Mahabharata known as ‘YakshaPrashna’ Questions asked
by a certain Yaksha to king Yudhisthira. One of
the questions is „What is the most surprising thing in this world?‟ The answer
given by the king is very interesting. The king replied “Everyday thousands of people die,
yet everyone feels confidently that he is not going to die. So Leader should
have this ability to foreseen that nothing is certain or Permanent and everything is bound to change.
b)
Buddha always said that
SarvaKshanika
– Everything is momentary!‟ This view of momentary world teaches
to understand uncertainty principle. So leader should always have this ability
that uncertain things are always going to happen. So being proactive is always
good.
c)
Napoleon
once said that he would have an army of rabbits led by a lion than a army of
lion led a a rabbit
Question.2- Do You
Feel that You have the Leadership Skills?
Answer.2- To answer
this question, we first have to identify What are the leadership skills. In my
opinion ,driven by below mentioned sources, Leadership Skills includes amongst
the others :
1.
Able to Communicate what intended to
2.
Self Confidence
3.
Motivational for itself and others
4.
Optimum Delegation of Work
5.
Creative to New Problems
6.
Flexible enough to situation
7.
Commitment to work
In regard to the
Question.2, amongst the so many kinds of Leadership skills, I would say I am good
at this skill- “Commitment to work”. Reason
for such score are my past and present experiences. One of them is , I started
my First Responsible work in 2013 ( One Month Before my results for Class 12th
announced). i.e. to Start work as Home Tutor. And I managed my Regular college
along with CS coachings and Home tutions. ( 8am to 1:30pm College, 3pm to
6:30pm CS Coachings, and 7:30pm to 9pm Home tutions and late night study). So
In my opinion , amongst the other skills, I poses “ Commitment to work” skill.
Apart from it, I am
also good at Team coordination.
For instance- I worked as a part of Placement cell of my college for the year
2016.
Question.3- Why
Leadership Skill is required?
Answer.3- Leadership
Skill is Required
1.
To Build Self Confidence
2.
To Survive
3.
For Self Growth of an individual
4.
To Justify your Position in a firm
5.
For Self Realization
6.
To take Your Career as far as it can
go
“Do more than you are being paid to do, and
you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.” (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zig_ziglar_617754)
Question.4- What you are doing to
develop your Leadership skills?
Answer.4- No Person is born as
Leader. Being a leader or to have Leadership Skills is a Question of Fact.
However, To develop these skills, I am presently working on followings areas:
1.
Learning to be more discipline
2.
Learning to be a good listener
3.
Use SWOT analysis in Everyday
Situations
4.
To Draw a Chart of Do’s and Don’ts
5.
Developing Situational awareness
6.
Learning Everyday
Question.5- Why it is
Important for any Organization?
Answer.5-
1.
The Importance of Leadership is very
essential for a Organization. The DELEGATION
OF WORK is one of Important feature of a leader. Also in a big organization,
this delegation plays a major role. However Delegation Require many steps one
of major is TO TRUST. In order to Trust , the leader has to identify
the employees , their skills , match their skills with requirement of work and
delegate accordingly.
2.
To understand that there is a
difference between BOSS & LEADER. BOSS
CREATE BOSS, LEADERS CREATE LEADERS.
3.
TO
VISUALIZE THE BIG PICTURE . Leadership enables
to see the multiple viewpoints from a single idea. i.e. To see the vastness of
an idea while sitting in a corner of this world. “The Light Shining From the
thousand sunrises” .
4.
MANAGING
SHORT TERM VS LONG TERM GAINS. Leadership enables an organization to maintain
balance between Short Gains and Long Gains. Leaders make Optimum decisions to
Sacrifice Present gains for Future Profits. Leader knows what is coming in
future. He is able to reasonably foreseen the Gains. He take pro bono cases in
order to Justify his/her Presence.
5.
TO
SURVIVE. Now Without Leading , there cannot
be any survival. No Organization grow
who doesn’t spent on learning and lead. To continuous Learning and To Take lead
without thinking for risks are essential to Survive.
“BUSINESS
IS NOT BED OF ROSES”
very well writtenđź‘Ś
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