Dear Reader,

Greetings of the day !

I have been closely following the dimension of leadership.

What intrigues one is that leadership is a dimension everyone talks about, most have an opinion on it, still some think and practice it and are good at it, and just about four or five are excellent leaders.

In the Indian scenario,the leaders worth citing are:

Military: Field Marshal Cariaappa,Field Marshal Sam Bahadur Maneckshaw.

Politically: M.K. Gandhi,J. Nehru,Vijaya Laxmi Pandit,L.B. Shastri,
Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi.

Industry / Business: Rahul Bajaj,Narayan Murthy,Azim Premji,Jayateerth.Rao,Dr.Reddy[Apollo Group].

Spiritual / Religious: Sri Adi Shankracharya,Sri Guru Swami Madhwacharya,
Sri Guru Swami Vyasaratheertharu, Sri Guru Swami Raghavendrateertharu, Swami Ramakrishna Parmahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Guru Nanak Dev,
Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi and a few more could be listed.

Women Leaders:Dr.Kiran Bedi,Naina Lal Kidwai,Kiran.Mazumdar.Shaw,

Now this is just on the Indian scenario.

Have a look at the international scenario.

Scan the eyes of your brain to see what you find and you come across more names in any of the above fields.

The fact exists that as a nation we are poor leaders in ourselves.

This is regardless of what our genetical make-up is,or from the family,environmental background we have had.

The world at large is facing a severe crisis of excellent leaders.

India in particular is starved of excellent leaders.

To continue with a diatribe on this is easy.

Let me pause here and invite you to read this article as extracted below.

It is titled,"A Sad Lesson In Collaborative Innovation by Ron Hadner".

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/05/a_sad_lesson_in_collaborative_innovation.html

Enjoy the read! and let your grey cells work themselves out to enable you be better and perhaps merit a lesson in learning from it.

Best,

Prasad.