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GANDHI JI THE TRUE LEADER
Leadership is a process where by an individual influence a group
of individuals to achieve a common
goal. Generally people think that the leadership is a
characteristics its not a characteristics or a trait that
reside within a person while its a process in there are three
elements are most important these are
influence, group, and goal attainment.
The Father of the Nation (India) is now being held up as the
master strategist, an exemplary leader, and
someone whose ideas and tactics corporate India can emulate.
Gandhi ji reinvented the rules of the game
to deal with a situation where all the available existing
methods had failed. He broke tradition. He
understood that you cannot fight the British with force. So he
decided to change the game in a
fundamentally different way. He unleashed the power of ordinary
people, inspired women and men in the
country to fight under a unifying goal. Resource constraint did
not bother him.
Gandhi's leadership style is being termed as 'follower-centric'
and one that took into account existing
conditions before determining the strategy. Gandhi ji advocated
having leadership styles that were
dependent on the circumstances. When Gandhi was in South Africa,
he launched his protests in a suit and
a tie. But when he came back to India, he thought of khadi and
launched non-violent protests on a greater
scale, It shows that Gandhi jis leadership style was situational
leadership style.
"Mahatma Gandhi's example to me is a perfect case of adopting
styles to suit the culture. The country
today stands divided on whether what he did was good or bad... I
just know one thing: there was never a
leader before him nor one after him who could unite us all and
bring us out in the streets to demand for
what was rightfully ours. To me, he is the greatest leader our
land has ever seen.
Look at the Dandi march. If Gandhi had gone there quietly, it
would just not have made an impact. He
knew he had to create an event to make an impact and so he took
his followers on a march that stirred
popular imagination of the time. He had a total understanding of
the human psychology and used it along
with his public relation skills. In business, empowerment is all
about making sure everyone is connected
to the organization's goals. Gandhi has a way of doing that:
making sure that everyone in the cause is
connected to the goal.
In the last few years, there is a thinking that capitalism is
not just about creating wealth, but you have to
take care of the shareholders and stakeholders, too. Many years
ago, this emphasis on the interests of the
stakeholders was labeled socialism. So, Gandhi's ideas and the
lessons learnt from him are not totally
different from what corporate India would like to
It is very important that leadership is about the follower not
the leaders The leader should make his/her
followers feel proud to be part of the team and to make them
feel that they are an essential part of the
team. The following is a quote how good leadership ensures
this:
Good leaders make people feel that they are at very heart of
things, not at the periphery.
Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success
of the organization, when that happens
people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
