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BY Nisha Hariyani
How ore Ieoders mode?????
How do leaders inspire when other
people who are equally bright and
visionary fail????
What makes them extraordinary???
%e Mokinq o| o Ieoder
!hilip carroll ceo of Fluor Cor
Says '.put yourself in difficult,
challenging circumstances where
you are outside of the comfort
level that you have. It helps to be
scared sometimes, to be actually
worried... Those are growth
experiences.
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'I start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders, not
more followers.` - Ralph Nader
"As we look ahead into the next century,
leaders will be those who empower
others."
Bill Gates
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Story telling
Members of the
Infosys start-up
team in the early
days.
%e idea of nfosys was born on a morning in January 1981.
%at fateful day, N R Narayana Murty
and six software engineers sat in is apartment
debating ow tey could create a company to write
software codes.
In 1981, it was Murthys idea to start Infosys.
Murthy had a dream, and no money. So Sudha
gave him Rs 10,000, which she had saved without
his knowledge. Murthy and his six colleagues
started Infosys in 1981.
In 1983, Infosys moved to Bangalore when it got
its first client, Data Basics Corporation from the
United States.
The first mini computer arrived at Infosys in 1983.
There was no luxury, only struggle, day and night.
They had no car, no phone.
Murthy later recalled that it was not the luxuries of
life, but the passion to create something new and
innovative that made them keep going on and on
and on.
Gopalakrishnan relives the memories of those
days. "We had nothing after eight years of trying to
bring up a company. Those who studied with us
had cars and houses," he says.
The company was on the verge of collapse. One of
the founder-partners -- Ashok Arora -- was
defected with the way the company was going, and
decided to quit.
The others did not know what to do. But Murthy
had the courage of conviction. If you all want to
leave, you can. But I am going to stick (with it) and
make it, Murthy told them.
It is said that Infosys began getting big
breakthroughs from the US market
Infosys is the largest publicly traded IT services
exporter in India, providing services to 315 large
corporations, such as GE and Nortel,
predominantly in the USA.
Now, it's a gIobaI IT giant!
25 years sheer determination, and growth
omonen|s o| s|ory
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Context specific
Level specific
Use of role models
Dramatic
Learning value
!ractice storytelling
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CEO H! Carly Fiorina
Obfective. reinstate H! to
previous place as top hightech
innovator
An organi:ation has to take five
critical steps to achieve this.
Consciousness
Future orientation
Execution
Integration
Evaluation of development efforts
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The making of a leader
Developing next generation
leaders
Tying leadership development to
organi:ational goals