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  Leadership Lessons from Village Life-Part-1 Lesson-3-Life Skills In those days only few houses had TV Sets in villages & connectivity   was not so good, hence my evenings were not as entertaining like city life but I used to have a good time in the mornings with my relatives and their friends in the village We all meet in one of our home Thinnai and discuss our plans for the day, one of the favorite  activities was swimming in the well, which was a strict no from my family members, but I used to go along with my friends. One of my relative was an expert in swimming and he will force us to enter the well, which some of us will avoid but others will try it out. I have seen amazing leadership skills exhibited by that expert while teaching how to swim. First of all, he will enter the well and swim for some time and create a feeling it is easy to do it, a good Leader should demonstrate how to do it before teaching or delegating a task Second, he will talk with co...

  Leadership Lessons from Village Life-Part-2 Corporate Thinnai Since I am from Southern part of India, I would like to introduce certain Tamil words and it’s meaning for better understanding. In a village outside the home there is a place for sitting which is called Thinnai means porch or portico in an old village house in Tamil Nadu Thinnai was an open Veranda that served many purposes. One of the main functions of the Thinnai was to provide free lodging to the travelers  at night. This was during that period when there was no electricity in the villages, and there were no buses  or trains. Thinnai was used by men folks to assemble and rest or hold talks. Teachers of arts and literature taught young children on these raised platforms. Each house in a Village will have a Thinnai, where the respective house-owner  will treat the fellow villager as a friend and initiate discussion that is commonly understood by all and share their views. When I was young, I ha...

  Leadership Lessons from Village Life-Part-1 While writing these leadership series, I was thinking what I should write more to keep this series going successfully and this thought took to me to my childhood days which is not complete without my village. Presenting my childhood thoughts in line with this Leadership Lessons If the people in the city needs to keep the hand in the food, the farmer needs to keep the foot in the soil, This one sentence is enough to establish how important are villages in our life. When villages can play such a vital role in our life, the same village also has many Leadership stories to share. The forthcoming series is based on my experience in going to my village during my childhood days for vacations or our family religious gatherings.   Lesson-1-Values : During one of my visits to my village, I remember an elderly person who volunteered for a discussion and got introduced, after sometime I asked my grandmother, “who was that person?” and sh...

  Difference between a Follower and a Leader In a mid-sized  organization, whenever an employee is promoted to a Team Leader position, the promoted Leaders gets an opportunity to have a coffee meeting with the CEO. After the CEO gave his inputs about Leadership qualities required in their organisation, one of the newly appointed Leader asked what is the difference between being a Follower and a Leader. The below is the difference that was given by the CEO   After sharing the above difference, the CEO said  “As a subordinate, when you commit a mistake it impacts you, but as a Leader when you commit a mistake it impacts you as well as others. Hence forth live with an Attitude of developing others and that is the Attitude that will develop you. You can make a difference when you follow the above difference   *KRA-Key Result Area –KPI—Key Performance Indicators M.L. Narendra Kumar               ...

  Leadership Lesson from Friends Friends are one of the great sources of Power; they bring the best out of us and they add colours to our life. The moment we start thinking about our friends there is always a smile on our lips. Let us understand certain Leadership qualities that can be learnt from our friends. Team Builder: Among our friends   there will always be one person who builds the team, let it be for a weekend outing or to buy a college book, there is this one person who takes the initiative of bringing the friends together. As a Leader we should always be instrumental in bringing the team together. Let it be for a meeting or an outing, a Leader should be a Team builder Talent Developers : Friends are the greatest source of motivation and they bring the talent out of us, our friends group was always the first set of audience where we performed at no cost and it is the same friends  for whom we later give a complementary pass, but for our friends we would have...

  Leader Lives with Vision True Leaders are known for their Vision, irrespective of the size of the organisation or designation, true leaders live with and for vision. Let us understand how Leaders look at Vision and what they do to help the subordinate to connect with the Vision.   V-Values: True Leaders are driven by values. While driving the vision they also drive the values required in achieving the vision. True Leaders will never achieve the vision at the cost of the values.  They will ensure that every subordinate, understands the values of the company and they also inspire them to be value driven in their life   I- Involve: True Leaders involve their team in setting the vision as well as working towards it. when subordinates see the bigger picture of their role, they see more value in giving their best   S-Simplifies: True Leaders are not only simple by nature, but they also simplify the vision, so that the subordinate can understand the vision cle...

  A Nation is in the right direction when the following happens ·          Number of sports grounds are more than the virtual play stations ·          The size of the prisons is smaller than the libraries ·          The number of people in the hospitals are lesser than the number of people in the gyms & parks ·          The number of students in the international sports competition are more than the students sitting in front of the Televisions ·          The number of people fighting cases in the courts are lesser than the number of people having fun with their friends and relatives ·          The number of local brands is more than the foreign brands ·          The number of people without ...