How to become a Leader?
Channel: MentorTalk
Date: 2022-08-02

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Today we want to tell you how to be a good leader while avoiding the most common mistakes made by bad bosses
President – Ronald Reagan “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” 
The topic relating to any facet of Leadership be it leadership skills or its development is very immense, huge. I could speak on it for hours together based on my experience as well as having studied the lives of several leaders in different walks of life. But as I have a limitation of time, let me just touch upon some vital areas of leadership.
In the context of an individual, leadership is the capacity and ability to "lead", run, manage or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organization, this is putting it simply. 
Researches connected with leadership have generated concepts or characteristics, which are essential for leadership – there are 18 characteristics attached to a good successful leader - possessing some exceptional qualities, inter-personal dealings, crisis management skills, timely responses, spontaneous actions, defining roles, performance, conduct, behaviour, power, mission, vision, goals, 14 values, charisma, discipline, sensitivity or compassion and intelligence. My research has indicated that any good and successful leader has a minimum 10 exceptional characteristics. The maximum exceptional characteristics, which I saw in a leader were 14-15 traits, I would say they are Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte and Martin Luther King Jr ….they had the highest score in the leadership traits. In recent times, I would rate Chinese online retail giant Alibaba founder Jack Ma as a great leader. So, it will be worthwhile if you all could read about the lives and biographies of these four leaders, whose names I have just shared.
There are many commentaries on leadership skills and roles, but the aptest one I found in the commentary by Jia Lin on Sun Tzu - Art of War, the most important and popular military classic of ancient China, you must read the translated texts of the Art of War – Jia Lin interpreting the text says that Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and discipline ... Reliance on intelligence alone results in rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness. Fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on the strength of courage results in violence. Excessive discipline and sternness in command result in cruelty. When one has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader. 
And leadership is not a static role, it must develop and grow each day, with the changing needs, challenges and evolution and expectations of the society or the corporation, as the case may be. 
The leadership is not about only yielding holding power and authority. It is about good governance. It is about accountability. It is about creating more leaders. It is about leaving a formidable legacy. Leadership is about governing not merely ownership; even an owner has to learn to lead. Indeed its underlying principles have been long established and discussed at length in ‘Arthashastra’ which was written in the 4th century BC. This thesis of practice on governance and leadership is said to have been written by Kautilya, the Prime Minister to India’s first great emperor, Chandragupta Maurya. In the context of leadership, one could draw the crux and core from the mulyas (values) found in Kautilya’s arthashastra: ‘Praja sukhe sukham rajyaha prajanamcha hitehitam natma priyam hitam rajnaha prajanam chahitam piryam’ which means in the happiness of his subject lies the king’s happiness, in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him alone. 
Leadership is a way of life and not a set of rules. A way of life that necessitates taking into account the interest of all concerned.  Thank you and see you next time with another topic.