Leadership

Learn from Leader of millions

of angels
(Based on a lecture
By
Dr Balachandran, VC,
Nagarjuna University, Guntur

Concept developed by
B. Ravichandran
 Attributes of a leader
• Inspires confidence in you
• Motivates you to perform
• Protects you in your directed efforts
• Looking ahead for a future vision
• Accomplish the expected mission
• New Ideas, innovation generation
• Torch Bearer - once a bearer always a
bearer
 Why IMPLANT is leadership trait
• Every human being is a leader
• In the process of procreation, one female
egg is chased by 400 million male
spermazova and the successful leader
sperm alone generates a birth
 Leadership – a situational role
• Leadership is situational – sometimes
you are a leader and some times a
follower
• In India and elsewhere the majority
choose to be a follower since leaderships
implies responsibility, decision making and
taking people along against seemingly
heavy odds
Leadership Concept – East & West
• Ohio, Michigan Universities have done extensive
research for the past 60 years on leadership
• They have developed a leadership dictionary
which contains 17000 personality traits of a
leader
• In Bhishma Parva in Maha Bharat, 5100 years
ago, Bhishma, the greatest warrior on his bed of
arrows awaiting his desired date of death was
approached by Krishna to speak to Pandavas
about 70 leadership qualities
 The Common Man’s God –
Ganesh
• Name itself suggests – Gana Pathi –
leader of millions of angels
• Vi Nayaka – No leader above this leader
• Accessibile Leader - He is common man’s
God. You can make him from clay or
turmeric and pray . A leader should be
accessible to his followers
 Body Language of the Leader
• Elephant Headed Human Body – Learn
from all – be it human or animal – 84 lakh
creatures are said to be around
• According to Darwin the elephant is the
largest mammal and mouse is the smallest
mammal known to the man earlier
• Elephant symbolises, dynamism,
gratefulness, loyalty, foresight and power
 Each part of Body – what it
conveys
• Elephants unite and form a herd to drink water
and security under a leader
• Big Head – Think Big and have a goal; Face
radiating happiness – in Yoga teachers adivse
you to think of an elephant – it brings happiness
• Pleasant faced – a face in the crowd ; not a
crowd in faces – Prasanna Vadana – face is the
index of the mind – Leader to wear a pleasing
look
• Trunk – used to carry heavy lumber,
uproot trees, drink deep – a leader should
be capable of carrying responsibility,
remove obstacles and go deep into
problems
• It is said elephants sensed Tsunami 3
days in advance
• It can smell your scent when you are 2 KM
away
• If elephants walk through a place, a good path is
formed in the jungle. A leader is supposed to
find and lay path, and lead
• Tusks – growth throughout its life span – 70 to
90 years – humans teeth grow upto 17 to 19
years
• Tusk is a weapon – Ganesha’s broken tusk is
used to write Maha Bharat – an ability of leader
to innovate (trying to find out uses for products
which you don’t presume they can do )
• Big ears – Listen to what others say – a
leader has to spend more time in listening
• By flapping its big ears elephants have a
way of cooling their blood vessels – leader
listen and be cool
• Eyes – very small compared to body size,
but full of vision – compared to the size of
his following, leader may be small in size
but he has a vision– Gandhi, MGR,
• Skin – thick skinned but sensitive to instrument
of control – Ankush – Leaders should be thick
skinned but sensitive
• Meat – trunk tastes like human flesh – other
parts differently – a leader appears an mystery
to somebody, guide to someone, friend to
someone, etc.
• Big Belly – to digest large material and retain
only what is needed – a leader has to assimilate
many things but retain what is needed
• 4 hands to 4 lakh hands – span of management
capabilities - reaching out and controlling,
cooperating and coordinating
• A Book in hand – KNOWLEDGE - a leader is
one who has led with an edge of wisdom
• Weapon – Courage
• Lotus – Embodying emancipation however low
you are placed in life – peace, love and kindness
• Prasad – fruits of prosperity – to be shared
with the followers
• Rice starch, dhal (carbohydrates and
protein rich), Jaggery (eyesight
improvement), Gingelly Seeds (growth of
red cells) – Healthy food for a healthy
mind for a healthy leader
• Sathya Saibaba – Avoid Worry Hurry &
Curry
• 2 wives – Siddhi – fulfilling capability and
Buddhi – Wisdom
• Sons – Lakshyam – goal and Laabh –
Profit – a leader works for an objective –
goal – and his activities should be
profitable
• He manages by strategy – trouble creator
and trouble remover – vigna kartre and
vigna hantre
• Small Legs – but firm strong footed – no one can
shake him from leadership position
• Small vehicle – Mouse – Maslow’s theory of
needs, esteemed needs, self-actualisation, etc.
– no matter whether the means are small the
goal will be big and reached in time
• Serpents as ornament – keep in check bad
elements by assigning them a suitable role;
serpants symbolise creation also