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Insights On

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My Reflections on

Leaders & Leadership

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

A person in my family whom I consider a Leader

Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Please write what made the personalities shown in the slides a leader that come to your mind as you are exposed to the image. You shall be given about 10 seconds for each image.
NB : Please do not write the name of the Personality

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams ~

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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ~ Isaac Newton ~

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The price of greatness is responsibility. ~ Winston Churchill ~

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A Leaders Interview

Q1. Talk about a couple of events in your life that you think made you a leader

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. ~ Ferdinand Marcos ~

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Q2. The mistakes that you have made and learnings that you have had from those mistakes

Q3. Whom do you consider as your mentor or a hero and why?

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. ~ Nelson Mandela ~

Q4. If you were to advise young men and women aspiring to be a leader, what would your suggestions be.

Credentials of the Leader Interviewed Name ............................................................................................. Designation .................................................................................... Organization .................................................................................. Reason why you chose to interview him/her ................................... .......................................................................................................
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Write your favorite POEM that reflects your view of leadership

Writing a

STORY

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Insights from Movie I

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. ~ Kenneth Blanchard ~

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Insights from Movie II

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Insights from Guest Lecture I

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Insights from Guest Lecture II

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~ Bill Gates ~

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Insights from Guest Lecture III

High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ~ George Orwell ~

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~ Steve Jobs ~

Compilation & Condensation of

What makes a Leader

NB: Examine the factors identified above and list the top 3 according to you that makes a personality a Leader. Try to go beyond the obvious and reach the ken of the trait/ability. Avoid repetition and restatement of similar traits.

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Insights gathered
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say I. And thats not because they have trained themselves not to say I. They dont think I. They think we; they think team. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and dont sidestep it, but we gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. ~ Peter Drucker ~

Insights gathered
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Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. When a sage sees this great Unity and his Self has become all beings, what delusion and what sorrow can ever be near him? ~ Isa Upanishad ~

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Leadership Insights that concern

A Leaders Within A Leaders Environment

To lead people, walk beside them As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate When the best leaders work is done the people say, We did it ourselves! ~ Lao-Tsu ~ Book of Insights on Leadership

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Remarks

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

Remarks

Reference Books on

Leadership

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Author Profile
Abhishek Kumar
B Sc (Economics), MBA Assistant Professor

Work Experience He has been a business and thought leader in his career so far of more than 12 years across Military, Media, Telecom, Banking and Academia. As business leader, he achieved International recognition from World Association of Newspapers, Paris for the newspaper he led and National recognition for Responsible Banking within Yes Bank. He has conducted MDPs on Leadership and Brand Leadership for a number of organizations viz Genpact, Vodafone, BHEL, TAFE, Ashok Leyland, MTS, Amrutanjan, Dalmia Cements, Bharti Airtel etc. He teaches courses on Leadership and Brand Management at BIM Trichy and is also a guest faculty at a Leadership course of INSEAD Business School, France.
kabhishek@bim.edu

BHARATHIDASAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI

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