dear friends
Last week, I happened to meet one Mr Srikumar Menon, a Corporate Trainer and a passionate researcher on Bhagwad Gita. During the course of the conversation, we discussed about leadership qualities and 'role-models'. Recently, one of our members wrote in this group about why in India, we are talking about only Mahatma Gandhi as 'role-model' for the past sixty years. He was also asking, as to why we were not able to find one. Now, we talk about Dr Abdul Kalam, who has inspired the youth.
I was discussing about the dearth of leaders in all spheres, including Corporates, politics, etc. We have a mistaken notion that leaders are those who are in position or power.
Mr Srikumar Menon told me that the same question was asked by Arjuna to Lord Krishna. Arjuna wanted to know who were the 'role-models'. In Bhagwad Gita, Lord Krishna says that whatever leader does, will be followed by others. In Chapter 3 of Bhagwad Gita (Karma Yoga), Lord Krishna explains about the role model and leadership, which are relevant for modern days.
A leader need not be in a position or power. Sridhar Menon quoted Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King who never had any power or official position. They were faithfully followed by others. Same way, the leader should leave a legacy behind him.
Immediately, I recorded his podcast (7 minutes) on the leadership as defined by Lord Krisha in Bhagwad Gita. Since this is more relevant for modern day youth to develop leadership skills, I am sharing this with you. Please click the following link to listen to the podcat.
http://www.poduniversal.com/2009/04/bhagwad-gita-defines-leadership.html
Srinivasan
Moderator
Last week, I happened to meet one Mr Srikumar Menon, a Corporate Trainer and a passionate researcher on Bhagwad Gita. During the course of the conversation, we discussed about leadership qualities and 'role-models'. Recently, one of our members wrote in this group about why in India, we are talking about only Mahatma Gandhi as 'role-model' for the past sixty years. He was also asking, as to why we were not able to find one. Now, we talk about Dr Abdul Kalam, who has inspired the youth.
I was discussing about the dearth of leaders in all spheres, including Corporates, politics, etc. We have a mistaken notion that leaders are those who are in position or power.
Mr Srikumar Menon told me that the same question was asked by Arjuna to Lord Krishna. Arjuna wanted to know who were the 'role-models'. In Bhagwad Gita, Lord Krishna says that whatever leader does, will be followed by others. In Chapter 3 of Bhagwad Gita (Karma Yoga), Lord Krishna explains about the role model and leadership, which are relevant for modern days.
A leader need not be in a position or power. Sridhar Menon quoted Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King who never had any power or official position. They were faithfully followed by others. Same way, the leader should leave a legacy behind him.
Immediately, I recorded his podcast (7 minutes) on the leadership as defined by Lord Krisha in Bhagwad Gita. Since this is more relevant for modern day youth to develop leadership skills, I am sharing this with you. Please click the following link to listen to the podcat.
http://www.podunive
Srinivasan
Moderator
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1 comment:
Excellent article.
The Western idea of management centers on making the worker (and the manager) more efficient and more productive. Companies offer workers more to work more, produce more, sell more and to stick to the organization without looking for alternatives. The sole aim of extracting better and more work from the worker is to improve the bottom-line of the enterprise. The worker has become a hirable commodity, which can be used, replaced and discarded at will.
Thus, workers have been reduced to the state of a mercantile product. In such a state, it should come as no surprise to us that workers start using strikes ( gheraos) sit-ins, (dharnas) go-slows, work-to-rule etc. to get maximum benefit for themselves from the organizations. Society-at-large is damaged. Thus we reach a situation in which management and workers become separate and contradictory entities with conflicting interests. There is no common goal or understanding. This, predictably, leads to suspicion, friction, disillusion and mistrust, with managers and workers at cross purposes. The absence of human values and erosion of human touch in the organizational structure has resulted in a crisis of confidence.
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