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adership. Different people have different views on the subject, and very diverse ones sometimes. Just the other day, I had a chance to listen to a world renowned professor on the subject when he was explaining how his research has led to the conclusion that one needs to have 6 Cs to become a leader – Courage, commitment (and four other which I don’t remember), and that how leadership can be induced in individuals. At the same time, when questioned, he couldn’t strongly refute the school of thought which says that leaders are born, and people cannot be trained to be leaders.
For me however, there is no ambiguity as to who can be a leader. I don’t have any aesthetically placed 6 Cs or long theories on the topic, but a very simple understanding. A leader is a person with a vision. It doesn’t matter if he has the 6 Cs or 10 Ls or 4 Ps. It doesn’t matter if he is a good speaker, or a psychologist, a white or coloured for that matter. It is not these letters or abilities that make him a visionary, but the vision that induces all these qualities in him. Look at the word itself – leader. The word itself purports a person who directs others through dark, leads them through uncertainty and ambiguity, and how – by an independent, unborrowed vision.
And this vision has to be ambitious. A Himalayan vision creates Himalayan energy which is the source of all courage and commitment – for the leader and for the followers. It is the challenge in the vision that motivates people to follow it; to see it as a dream and pursue it as it was God. The vision also has to be inclusive. A vision for oneself or for a few is no vision, it is only day-dreaming. It cannot create leaders. And finally, the vision has to be backed by belief. A vision with no belief cannot induce action (sacrifice is a far cry).
And when such a vision strikes a man, he / she remains no mere mortal. He / she then acquires the 6 Cs, or the 4 Ps, or the 20 Ts or what have you by the force of the vision itself. It is the same force that converted Aung San Suu Kyi from an ordinary young girl to the voice of a nation. It is this same force that transformed a boy in his teens to become Shaheed-e-azam Sardar Bhagat Singh. It is this same force that evolved an ordinary lawyer to become the Mahatma, the father of the nation.
And this vision cannot be induced; this vision cannot be taught; people cannot be trained to have a vision. This vision has to be unborrowed and unguided, unchained and unquestioned to be able womb leaders. The vision is greater, larger and holier than the leader it produces. Leaders are neither born geniuses, nor trained professionals, but they are all a product of a grand vision.
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adership. Different people have different views on the subject, and very diverse ones sometimes. Just the other day, I had a chance to listen to a world renowned professor on the subject when he was explaining how his research has led to the conclusion that one needs to have 6 Cs to become a leader – Courage, commitment (and four other which I don’t remember), and that how leadership can be induced in individuals. At the same time, when questioned, he couldn’t strongly refute the school of thought which says that leaders are born, and people cannot be trained to be leaders.For me however, there is no ambiguity as to who can be a leader. I don’t have any aesthetically placed 6 Cs or long theories on the topic, but a very simple understanding. A leader is a person with a vision. It doesn’t matter if he has the 6 Cs or 10 Ls or 4 Ps. It doesn’t matter if he is a good speaker, or a psychologist, a white or coloured for that matter. It is not these letters or abilities that make him a visionary, but the vision that induces all these qualities in him. Look at the word itself – leader. The word itself purports a person who directs others through dark, leads them through uncertainty and ambiguity, and how – by an independent, unborrowed vision.
And this vision has to be ambitious. A Himalayan vision creates Himalayan energy which is the source of all courage and commitment – for the leader and for the followers. It is the challenge in the vision that motivates people to follow it; to see it as a dream and pursue it as it was God. The vision also has to be inclusive. A vision for oneself or for a few is no vision, it is only day-dreaming. It cannot create leaders. And finally, the vision has to be backed by belief. A vision with no belief cannot induce action (sacrifice is a far cry).
And when such a vision strikes a man, he / she remains no mere mortal. He / she then acquires the 6 Cs, or the 4 Ps, or the 20 Ts or what have you by the force of the vision itself. It is the same force that converted Aung San Suu Kyi from an ordinary young girl to the voice of a nation. It is this same force that transformed a boy in his teens to become Shaheed-e-azam Sardar Bhagat Singh. It is this same force that evolved an ordinary lawyer to become the Mahatma, the father of the nation.
And this vision cannot be induced; this vision cannot be taught; people cannot be trained to have a vision. This vision has to be unborrowed and unguided, unchained and unquestioned to be able womb leaders. The vision is greater, larger and holier than the leader it produces. Leaders are neither born geniuses, nor trained professionals, but they are all a product of a grand vision.
1 comment:
I beg to differ. They could be either. It is true to say that some are born with qualities but in the same breath, it is equally false to say those qualities cannot be developed over time. What says that those qualities are not hidden until the person develops the confidence in themselves to reveal to him or herself what they knew they were born to do.
But then again you will not know which one you are getting and I begin to repeat myself.
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