Chapter1: IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP Leadership has its own prominence be it in business, in spirituality, in politics, in defense, or in any field one could think of. Put in simple terms, leadership is about alignment of thought or action of a group for a cause. It is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. Leadership is an art that cannot be taught through book reading or classroom sessions. It has to be developed by observing leaders around us, by self learning, by learning from others and by application. This book makes an attempt to understand leadership the Ramayana way. Ramayana is the most sacred epic for Hindus. It is one of the best examples of Hinduism through story telling. This epic also throws much light on leadership skills and interestingly these skills are relevant to present day context and they will also be relevant to future context. Ramayana epic implicitly explains the leadership qualities. This book takes inspiration from the epic and attempts to highlight leadership skills of various characters that appear in the epic. This book deals with leadership in general and business leadership in particular. Although the Ramayana is a Hindu epic, this book in your hand does not deal with religion but it adopts leadership examples from Ramayana. While Rama gives examples on how a leader should be, Ravana gives examples on how a leader should not be. When you consider Rama an ordinary person, you get to learn lot of noble qualities from him. In this book bold and underlined parts represent sections in a chapter and italicized and underlined parts represent sub-sections in a chapter. The Appendix contains list of characters from Ramayana that appear in this book. The following leadership skills are covered in this book- Career skills People skills Technical skills Career skills are important in ensuring proper career growth. Leader will have to plan his career growth and also have to help his team’s career growth. This is important from organization’s perspective as the team’s development will have a direct impact on the organization’s growth. In career skills, the book focuses on career management, attitude, and personality management. Attitude is all about managing ourselves and managing our relations with others. Career management is all about how to choose an organization that suits our career aspirations and how to align to our organization’s goal to build up career. Personality management is about managing habits and introducing relaxation techniques in our daily routine to make an effective living. People skills are important as we all deal with people day in and day out. Different people have different perspectives so basics of general human psychology will be useful in understanding people. The book mainly focuses on -hiring skills (how to hire people), Motivation skills (how to motivate others), Knowledge sharing, Team management, Selling skills, Delegating (the art of making others work for us), Managing expectations (how to meet and set expectations for others), Smart way of saying no, Conflict management (smart ways of handling conflicts) and finally on Feedback (taking feedback and giving feedback to others). Technical skills include skills that are required to develop other skills related to career building and people management. The following are the technical skills that are covered in this book. Observation, problem solving, creativity and innovation, competitive, risk management, task management, decision making, goal management, assumption making, process management, time management, learning, analytical, communication, crisis, energy conservation and vision management. Exercises and tips under each section will help reader to master leadership skills through self-learning.
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