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Create anenvironment

of precaution

and initiative

Live simpleand share

HIGH

DREAMS

Communicateopenly with your

team members

Practice qualityCreate a team,where everyone

can become a

leader

Date:-03.01.13 

 FIVE LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR THE STUDENTS OF 21ST CENTURY  

By :

Dr. Trilok Kumar Jain1 

FIVE LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR THE STUDENTS OF 21ST CENTURY 

Leadership can be learned and must be acquired through sustained practice. We wish that we

have more and more leaders. Truly, today’s crisis is due to leadership vacuum.

1.  Create an environment of precaution and initiative: - leaders grow when there is an

environment of precaution and initiative. This environment is just opposite of the functioning

typical government department. I don’t want to criticize any government department, but the fact

remains the most outstanding talent of the country wishes to join the government department,

which gives them no freedom (at least in the initial five years or so) which curtails their

enterprising spirit. The death of entrepreneur within the creative youth is the case of nationalmournment for me. As the leaders of tomorrow, you should shun those organizations which

refrain from giving you space for your creativity and ventures.

1Dean, Suresh Gyan Vihar University Jaipur and Chairman, Organising Committee C3W 2012. The views

expressed in this case are that of the author’s personal views.

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2. Create a team, where everyone can become a leader: - In the story of Ramayana, we find that

Ram could have defeated Ravana on his own, but he created a team of Vanar Sena and enabled

others to excel. He created Hanuman into a great leader and savior. The real leader was Ram, but

he enabled Hanuman to emerge as leader. This is true leadership. We have to search for thepossibilities for creating powerful leaders from our team. We have to cherry-pick energetic,

passionate and enthusiastic persons in our team. We have to inculcate values of integrity, honesty,

transparency and trust in the team members through constant endeavors.

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 3. Live simple and share HIGH DREAMS: - Great leaders like Gandhi ji lived life like others.

They are not different in their dress or in their outer presentations. But they are truly different intheir ideas. Create vision and share your vision, which should be compelling, motivating,

moderately ambitious (but achievable) and inspiring for everyone. If you are able to create an

inspiring group, you will succeed.

 4. Practice quality: -quality means do what you commit, commit what you can deliver and

follow your commitment. Quality means integrity and honesty. Leaders have to start quality

management. Quality starts from top. If the persons at the top are not committed to quality, it

cannot be achieved.

 5. Communicate openly with your team members: -Great leaders are great communicators.

Communication doesn’t mean speaking. Communication means creating a common

understanding and re-in forcing this common understanding regularly. Communication is themost important tool for developing an organization.