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Leadership
With good financial background and cash handling talents a person can be good leader of an
organization
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Ordway Toad (The Art of Leadership) has defined leadership as, “The activity of influencing
people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable”
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I would subscribe a style of leadership for which the following points are taken care of:
-One who leads is a part of the group and yet he must maintain his separate identity if he is
continue to lead
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It is
rooted in feelings and attitudes that have grown out of reactions of individual personalities to
each other
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-It involves directing, guiding and influencing the behavior of individuals and groups so that
future actions and behaviors are modified in the right direction
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In

order to direct his subordinates a manager must motivate, communicate, supervise, guide and
lead them
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Managing can be more effective if those who manage are also leaders, because leadership
greatly influences results
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Following favorable results are secured if an individual attains good leadership:
-An ideal leader guides and directs by eliminating uncertainties as to what should be done, and
by so coordinating individual efforts as to make them pull in one direction
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-He represents the group to the outside world and the outside world to the group
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-The three things provided by the leader as mentioned above are also referred to as direction,
drive and representation, and are sufficient to prove that leadership is an essential part of a
successful management
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Rather than wait to for an enlightened
politicians or a public revolt against indifferent bureaucracies, the higher echelons of every
departments must take charge of their subordinates and turn their organizations into centers of
excellence
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A task is accomplished only through the subordinates
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The theory of Blake and Mouton (1978) holds good for a successful, eminent, energetic leader
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Many leaders are needed in the Government departments, not just to take India in the path of
progress, but also to ensure its survival in the decades to come
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Tasks for a leader depend upon the organization he serves
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A journey on foot across the globe begins with walking the first mile
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Without this burning desire at the core of his personality, nothing will come off the intention
to lead the office
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But the would-be-leader must
use all his will power to act like a leader in the office every day
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After all reforming any officialdom is not a cake walk
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The leader in-the-making needs to create another personality trait: self confidence
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A leader however small the office may be has to be intellectually superior to his staff, not just
possess a superior moral character! Individual officers and administrators should read lot of
books on history, biography, current affairs and new intellectual developments
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The leader should learn to keep his mind open to new ideas
and develop innovative far sighted policies for long term public benefit
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He should take an earnest vow to strive for national advancement
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For a group of individuals
to acquire moral discipline they have to be inspired by a dynamic immaculate leader
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But intelligent and imaginative officers and administrators, if they are determined
to develop the inner strength and discipline, can become capable leaders
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The
moral administrator must firmly believe that he or she can perform a major surgery on the soul
of each employee, to remove the canker of corruption
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The leader must inspire as well as compel their subordinates to be conscientious in their
discharge of duties
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The leader must improve himself forcefully upon the staff members not just to demand
commitment to work, but to emphasize repeatedly that it is in the employees own long-term
self interest to transform the society
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The moral leaders should remind each individual employee of his moral code
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To stir up positive emotions is actually a better psychological strategy for motivating people
because these emotions release pent up energy needed for high quality work
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It is better to challenge the employee to improve upon his past work quality as well as perform
better than his co-workers
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Staff members, who work around archaic rules, find shortcuts through cumbersome procedures
and interpret laws and counterproductive rules for public good ought to be praised and
rewarded by the leader-administrator
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The ever vigilant leader will undoubtedly encounter opposition from staff members
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When emotional appeals or rational arguments fail to transform the employees into ideal civil
servants, the moral administrator must enforce discipline or punish erring employees, ruthlessly
without any fear
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Exhorting subordinates to work harder; appealing to their pride to be honest; challenging them
to improve work; emphasizing repeatedly before them the need for national advancement;
lecturing them on national crises; criticizing and censuring them when necessary in the correct
tone- by doing all this in a high emotional key, a leader will create a dynamic, electrified
atmosphere to achieve the tasks and objectives of the organization

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