leadership by navdeep singh dakra
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Leadership
Concept of Leadership
• Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people
who do the right thing. - Warren Bennis, Ph.D. "On Becoming a
Leader"
Definition of Leadership
Leadership is a complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission, task, or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. A person carries out this process by applying her leadership attributes (belief, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills).
Although your position as a manager, supervisor, lead, etc. gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in the organization, this power does not make you a leader...it simply makes you the boss. Leadership makes people want to achieve high goals and objectives, while, on the other hand, bosses tell people to accomplish a task or objective
Principles of Leadership To help you be, know, and do, follow these
eleven principles of leadership:1. Know yourself and seek self-
improvement. 2. Be technically proficient. 3. Seek responsibility and take
responsibility for your actions.4. Make sound and timely decisions.5. Know your people and look out for their
well-being. 6. Keep your people informed. 7. Develop a sense of responsibility in your
people. 9. Ensure that tasks are understood,
supervised, and accomplished10.Train your people as a team. 11.Use the full capabilities of your
organization.
Manager V/s Leader
The Process of Great Leadership • The road to great leadership (common to
successful leaders): • Challenge the process - First, find a process
that you believe needs to be improved the most.
• Inspire a shared vision - Next, share you vision in words that can be understood by your followers.
• Enable others to act - Give them the tools and methods to solve the problem.
• Model the way - When the process gets tough, get your hands dirty. A boss tells others what to do...a leader shows it can be done.
• Encourage the heart - Share the glory with your followers' heart, keep the pains in your heart.
Functions Of Leadership
• Leadership is considered as the most important element of the directing functions of management
• Clarifications of goals• Motivation• Team Work• Representation
Case of World’s fifth largest Steel Maker Company “Tata Sons”
• Eight months after it was set up to find a successor to Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata, the search panel has concluded that it cannot find a “replacement” for the
group chief.
• “Our committee has come to the conclusion that we cannot find a replacement for [Ratan] Tata,” said Tata Sons Director and committee member R.K. Krishna Kumar in an interview published on the company's website.
• The group holding company, Tata Sons, in August, 2010 set up the five-member panel to find a successor to Mr. Tata, who is due to retire in December, 2012 when he turns 75.
• Apart from Mr. Kumar, other panel members are the former Vice Chairman of the company, N.A. Soonawala; Group Director Cyrus Mistry; Group Adviser and Lawyer Shirin Bharucha; and British businessman Lord Bhattacharya.
Mr. Kumar pointed out that the • panel might have to lower the• benchmark to find a successor to • head the $ 71 billion business empire.
• He said:• “He [Tata] is a born leader and you can see this wherever he
goes...He has a place in the history of post-Independence India,” he said adding “we may have to change and re-arrange the model in terms of what we are looking for.
New Successor of Tata Sons
• Cyrus P. Mistry
• Cyrus Mistry joined the Shapoorji Pallonji group as a director in 1991. On Wednesday, he announced that he would legally dissociate himself from the SP group as he assumes his new responsibilities.
• “We are now considering people — from within the group and outside, including expatriates — who can fill the role we have in mind. There are challenges but we will soon come to a conclusion.”
• While announcing the panel last year, Tata Sons said the group would require someone with experience and exposure to direct its growth amidst the challenges of the global economy.
• Selection process• “The selection process for a prospective candidate would consider suitable
persons from within the Tata companies and other professionals in India as well as persons overseas with global experience,” it said. — PTI
ByNavdeep Singh Dakra