A.P.J.Abdul Kalam on Leadership
A few days back I had a post on C.K.Prahalad’s views on Leadership. A few days back I read a article in the local India edition of Entrepreneur about Abdul Kalam’s views on a Leader, which are the following (extracted from here):
- Leader must have a vision.
- Leader must have a passion to transform the vision into action.
- Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path.
- Leader must have courage to take decisions.
- Leader must know how to manage success and failure.
- Leader should have Nobility in management.
- Every action of the leader should be transparent.
- Leader must work with integrity and succeed with integrity.
The above two are same as knowing where to go & not lose the sheep. Of course, the execution part is equally important & difficult as the vision part.
The above two are related, one needs to be courageous esp. when treading unchartered territory.
Example that was quoted for this quality was: to take self-responsibility in the event of a failure and also to praise others for success and not oneself. I guess this comes from ones humility – same as follow and not be ahead sheep-dog rule.
Noble meaning generous or magnanimous.
The above two are related, we know what happened to Satyam Computers – mainly because of not doing these two.
