Management & Leadership

“ Gandhiji is a true leader – who lived by values; developed many leaders; put his life at stake and led the country to freedom by creating a possibility called Ahimsa. "

In a recent training, when Nathan from insignium took an example of Gandhiji for leadership innovation, I thought several times to to capture my learning in to these words about Gandhiji.I highlighted few words which truly describes the leadership traits and we would throw more light in the following statements.

Let us first start what is management,

A Manager is typically manages others work and a manager Enables & Empowers others work.
Empowerment is taking an idea faster & efficiently, coupled with accountability and by taking intelligent decisions to reality.

Mgmt job is to produce results that wasn’t going happen anyway beyond expectations fm Bx. as usual by drift. Only one thing that produce results is Action and action is a correlation to world occurring. Ofcourse action is not what you think doing and it is perception which is linguistic.

Possibility is a linguistic phenomena and possibility exists only as a correlation. Possibilities exists only when it is said to exist in speaking and listening.
Hence medium of work is explained by conversations (communication) and manager communication is a set of conversations about 4W-H (when, where, why, who and How).

So great manager manages the perception (world occurring) or manages the Action (possibilities) in order to produce results.

Having learnt what is management means....let us see what is leadership means ...

•Leader leads only those people who got a stake in what he is trying to lead.
•Leader “listen” to those leading.
•Leader aligns the team to common goal instead of bringing agreement .
•Leader creates the possibilities, where none currently exists.
•Leader invents actions that express & realize the context (thoughts behind)
•Leader manages the context not content and context is decisive
•Leader communicates a set of conversations for accomplishment, which u do not know how to do.

Basically what we can summarize that leader is in front room and Manager is in the back room. Leader needs walk by the talk and be true innovator.
At certain times, we need to have managers and leaders both in the organization and also some times play different roles based on the situations. Some times, you could be just a sergeant, who is executing a leader's directives. Leader & Manager both need to be change agents and display a great team work.

We all truly regard Gandhiji as a leader, who walked the talk.... "Satyagraha, Ahimsa" etc weapons invented to get the independence to India. Millions followed him in this endeavour putting their lives at stake towards one simple goal.

India independence day is just a two days away.....this is in respect to a world leader called "Gandhiji".
Jai Hind!