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Experts View :
We need a leader, not just a glorified manger – Quality to lead - Leadership is about
ideas and dreams, making us understand why an issue deserves our attention,
scolding us when we are insufficient, inspiring us to aim higher
Some year ago,
during an election in Delhi, we were talking to a group of men and women in one
of the northwestern slums. Who is a good leader, we asked A women, thirtyish
and charmingly opinionated, said “Indira
Gandhi”
“She knew who
was poor and who was rich and what each of them needed. She would go from house
to house asking after people. For her, everyone was equally important.”
Mahatma Gandhi
used to do this , and so did Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, Atal Behari
Vajpayee and Rajiv Gandhi. But both
Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh mostly stayed mum. In the early days of Modi
there was a return to this tradition-we one again had a leader who was willing
to engage with us at the level of ideas – it mattered less whether we agreed
with him. Bu that quickly got lost in the need to defend partisan causes, and
at this point, it is not clear that any one except his groupies are listening
even when he has something important to say We need that back-we need a leader and not just a glorified manager.
Abhijeet Banerjee
International Professor, Economics
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