Leadership is Dynamic

Very often we talk of good management and give credit to the group in general for the team spirit or the efficiency of individuals. But if we make an incisive analysis, at any given point of time, the response of a group will be more due to a single individual who through his impact, creates a positive environment, where the members of the group get motivated. It can be a boss or sometimes it can be a peer or even a junior member, who creates a niche for himself and attains an informal authority or power to create an opinion among members. It is this person who charges, motivates and directs activity of people towards set objectives and attain success.

Our environment which has the legacy of strong culture, tempered with religious fervor, has spontaneity towards value-based approach. Humaneness is the key ingredient. An individual apart from proficiency in the job, who acquires this bent of mind and works through consistency and persistence, will emerge as a leader and eventually makes a success. Management principles apart, it is this approach of an individual, clubbed with systems and principles that steers ahead through people. It actually culminates in an aura of trust and concern, modulates the attitude of people and smoothly works for the objectives.

Way , the President of US, J F Kennedy made a profound statement, that “One man with courage makes a majority”. Though Kennedy states that an individual’s courage comes from courage, it actually comes from conviction, commitment and values. His courage influences people and he finally gets acknowledged and proves a majority. History has too many examples where individuals with single­-minded devotion and leadership, have proved that they are a force to reckon with, in leading, guiding and motivating people to act, through leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi is the finest example of leadership at the national level who could touch the hearts of people with his value-based approach and principles of truth and non-violence and with a tenacity of purpose, achieved freedom for the country and rendered moral influence to people to shape their very personality. In the Corporate sector, JRD Tata too provided great leadership. It is remarked that walking the untrodden path, achieving the unimaginable dream and living the eternal vision, JRD Tata became a legend. Bill Gates at the global level created impact through computers and information technology. Gates is a leader of vision of the 21st Century.

A study of our experiences clearly indicates that ‘leadership’ is a distinct quality, which is more than management, and it has that unique quality of striking a trust and relationship with people, which creates wonders. A leader is a person, who can touch the mind and heart of people simultaneously with his vision, commitment and devotion with empathy and he reaches everyone, empowers people to re-look into themselves. In dynamic leadership people become introspective, change attitudes and start as pro-active people to do what the leader wants.

Leadership is the key element in building teams, empowering people and making them cohesive. It is indeed a sort of net-working the leader develops, and there will be interaction between the leader and his people, and it will be an interactive atmosphere, striking at the root of transparency.

A leader will empower each individual in totality of personality, social, economic and ethical. Very often, the totality of an individual’s personality and aspirations are neglected. A leader develops a keen eye on the members of his team, listens, guides, directs and helps them to overcome their shortcomings and channelizes their potential.

A leader is sensitized to the aspirations of people, gauges their pulse, against the -drop of their culture, traditions and above all lays stress on values that are cherished. Keeping this approach, he builds relationship, bonds people, fosters constructive interaction and develops empathetic attitude in the group as a whole. A leader stands as a model and he will be a worker amongst the group and steadily will lead the group to the set target.

Being dynamic a leader keeps abreast on the happenings, and updates his knowledge and makes his members spontaneously accept that he is the essential ingredient for understanding, assimilation, efficacy and a tool for effective results.

Hard work has no replacement. The road to success in any field has always been tough. So the dynamic leader puts in the mind of his members that achievement has been possible always, through consistent efforts, added with integrity, devotion and a careful planning. In short dynamic leadership is one which envelops the entire gamut of activities of each member.