RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AS

ENUNCIATED IN GITA

BY

ANIL KUMARED & CEO

SHREYANS INDUSTRIES LIMITED

"I FIND A SOLACE IN THE BHAGAVADGITA THAT I MISS EVEN IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. WHEN DISAPPOINTMENT STARES ME IN THE FACE AND ALL ALONE I SEE NOT ONE RAY OF LIGHT, I GO BACK TO THE BHAGAVADGITA. I FIND A VERSE HERE AND A VERSE THERE AND I IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO SMILE IN THE MIDST OF OVERWHELMING TRAGEDIES – AND MY LIFE HAS BEEN FULL OF EXTERNAL TRAGEDIES – AND IF THEY HAVE LEFT NO VISIBLE, NO INDELIBLE SCAR ON ME, I OWE IT ALL TO THE TEACHING OF BHAGAVADGITA.

“MAHATMA GANDHI”

WHEN WE COME TO BHAGWAD GITA: MOST TO YOU, PERHAPS HAVE READ IT, IT IS THE BEST COMMENTARY WE HAVE ON VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY -- CURIOUSLY ENOUGH THE SCENE IS LAID ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE KRISHNA TEACHES THIS PHILOSOPHY TO ARJUNA AND THE DOCTRINE WHICH STANDS OUT LUMINOUSLY IN EVERY PAGE OF GITA IS INTENSE ACTIVITY BUT IN THE MIDST OF IT, ETERNAL CALMNESS.

“SWAMI VIVEKANAND”

ENCOURAGING LEADERSHIP

“KLAIBYAM MA SMA GAMAH PAARTHANAITATTVA YYUPA PADYATE

KSHUDRAM HRIDAYA DAURBALYAMTYAKTVOTTISHTA PARANTAPA”

---II-3YIELD NOT, PARTHA, TO WEAKNESS; THIS,

IT IS NOT FIT TO BE FEEBLE LIKE THIS.WEAKNESS OF HEART IS LOW, UNWISE,

“TERROR OF ENEMIES” ! GET UP AND RISE !

ENCOURAGING LEADERSHIP

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER REMINDS THE ACHIEVER IN DISTRESS ABOUT

HIS REAL INNER STGRENGTH ARRESTS THE TENDENCY TO GIVE UP BOOSTS THE MORALE OF THE MEMBERS OF

THE TEAM AND INSPIRES THEM TO RISE TO THE OCCASION BY HIS OWN UNDAUNTED COURAGE CONVERTS THE POTENTIAL LOSERS TO CERTAIN WINNERS

ENCOURAGEMENT ENERGISES EVEN DURING DEPRESSION.

LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE

“YADYADAA CHARATI SHRESHTAHTATTADEVAITARO JANAH

SAHYAT PRAMAANAM KURUTELOKASTADANU VARTATE”

---III-21HOW BEHAVES THE BEST OF MEN

SO BEHAVE THE REST OF MENHIS EXAMPLE, THEY WILL SHOW

SAYING “HE DID SO ! WE DO SO !

LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE PEOPLE FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF THE BEST

LEADERS. PEOPLE AT LEADERSHIP HAVE GREAT

RESPONSIBILITY AND DUTY TO BEHAVE IN THE BEST MANNER.

THEY HAVE TO SET EXAMPLES AND STANDARDS, FOR THE MEMBERS TO BE INSPIRED

A GOOD LEADER ASSISTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE GOOD LEADERS

EXCELLENCE BEGETS MORE EXCELLENCE.

LEADERSHIP IS SHOWING THE WAY BY ONE’S OWN EXAMPLE

WORKING LEADER

“NA ME PARTHAASTIKARTAVYAMTRISHU LOKESHU KINCHANANANAVAPTAMAVAPTAVYAMVARTA EVA CHA KARMANI”

---III-22“PARTHA ! FOR ME IN THREE WORLDS

THERE ARE NO PENDING WORKSNONE TO ATTAIN AND NONE TO DO

STILL THE WORK, I ALWAYS DO.”

WORKING LEADER

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER CONTINUOUSLY ENGAGES HIMSELF IN WORK AS WORK IS THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH HE CAN COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCHARGING ONE’S RESPONSIBILITY.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER CONTINUES TO CONTRIBUTE EVEN AFTER HE HAS COMPLETED HIS ASSIGNED WORK. THUS HE LIFTS THE WORK TO THE LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION AND OFFERING.

AN EXEMPLARY LEADER DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN WITHOUT BEING REQUIRED TO DO SO.

A LEADER’S SIGN IS HIS OWN WORK

DOUBTLESS STAND

“TASMAD AGNAANA SAMBHOOTAMHRITSTHAM GNAANAASINAATMANAHCHITTVAINAM SAMSHAYAM YOGAM

ATISHTHOTTISHTHA BHARATA”---IV-42

“THEREFORE DESTORY DOUBTS IN YOUR HEARTWITH KNOWLEDGE SWORD IN ONE SPURT

ESTABLISHED IN YOGA TAKE A STAND BHARATA ! GET UP AND FIRMLY STAND.”

DOUBTLESS STAND A DOUBTING MIND IS THE PARALYSED MIND.DOUBTS CREATE CONFLICTS AND THE PERSON IS HUNG BETWEEN “TO DO” OR “NOT TO DO”.DOUBT IS A GREAT TIME AND ENERGY WASTER.A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ENERGISES THE ACHIEVER WHO IS WAVERING BY SHOWING HIM THE WAY TO CLARITY.KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING IS THE SWORD WHICH CAN CUT THE DOUBTS AT ROOT.A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ENGAGES THE TEAM TO STUDY, RESEARCH AND ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE SO THAT IGNORANCE AND DOUBTS ARE REMOVED.

A DOUBTLESS PARTICIPANT IS A SPOTLESS CONTRIBUTOR

EMPATHETIC LEADERSHIP

“SARVA BHOOTHASTHAM AATMAANAMSARVA BHOOTAANI CHAATMANIEEKSHATE YOGA YUKTAATMAQASARVATRA SAMA DARSHANAH”

---VI-29ALL LIVING BEINGS IN HIS SELF

IN ALL LIVING BEINGS HIS VERY SELFSEES YOGI WITH HARMONIOUS SELF

SAMENESS EVERYWHERE FOR THAT SELF.

EMPATHETIC LEADERSHIP

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER PRACTISES SUPREME EQUALITY.

HE TREATS ALL HIS PEOPLE WITH EQUAL CONSIDERATION AND CARE AND CONSIDERS ALL HIS PEOPLE AS HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER SEES ALL HIS PEOPLE IN HIS OWN SELF AND SEES HIMSELF IN ALL HIS PEOPLE.

THIS IS EMPATHY AND THE LEADER SHARES AND EXPERIENCES ALL DIFFICULTIES AND TRIUMPHS OF HIS TEAM MEMBERS.

EQUALITY IS QUALITY

REASSURING LEADERSHIP

“PAARTHANAIVEHA NAMUTRAVINAASHASTASYA VIDYATE

NAHI KALYAANA KRIT KASHCHITDURGATIM TAATA GACHCHHATI.”

---VI-40NEITHER IN THIS, AND, IN THAT NOT

HARM FOR HIM IS THERE NOTTHE DOER OF GOOD, NOW YOU SEEMY DEAR ARJUNA ! FAILS NOT HE.

REASSURING LEADERSHIPA RESPONSIBLE LEADER REASSURES THE TEAM

MEMBER WHEN HE IS OVERCOME BY DOUBT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF FAILURE HALF-WAY.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ASSURES THAT WHEN THE GOALS AND MEANS ARE CORRECT AND WORKS ARE UNDERTAKEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TEAM AND SOCIETY, THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF ANY HARM IN CASE OF FAILURE.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ASSURES THAT SUCCESS IS NOT A ONE-SHOT PROCESS AND SUCCESS IS THE RESULT OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AFTER EACH FAILURE.

REASSURING LEADERSHIPA RESPONSIBLE LEADER ASSURES THAT PROCESS

IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE RATHER THAN THE CONSEQUENCES BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT A GOOD PROCESS WINS BEAUTIFULLY IN THE LONG TERM.

IT IS BETTER TO FAIL IN WORKING FOR A GOOD CAUSE RATHER THAN SUCCEED IN WORKING

FOR A WRONG CAUSE.

SUPER-VISION

“MAYAADHYAKSHEN PRAKRITIHSOOYATE SA CHARAACHARAM

HETUNAANEN KAUNTEYAJAGAD VIPARIVARTATE.”

---IX-10“NATURE,UNDER SUPERVISION OF ‘ME’

PRODUCES MOVING, NON-MOVING SEE !

BECAUSE OF THE FACT, THIS VERY ONEWORLD REVOLVES THEN, KUNTI’S SON.”

SUPER-VISION THE OVERALL VIEW AND SUPERVISION OF THE

LEADER GENERATES ALERTNESS, AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN ALL TEAM MEMBERS.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER SEES, OBSERVES, LOOKS, PERCEIVES, CONCEIVES AND SIGHTS ALL THE POSSIBILITIES, PROBABILITIES AND OPTIMALITIES OF DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER INTEGRATES WHAT HAS HAPPENED, WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AND VISUALISES WHAT IS THE BEST THAT MUST HAPPEN.

SUPER-VISION

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ENSURES THAT A TEAM ADJUSTS, ACCOMMODATES, ADOPTS AND ACHIEVES IN NEW SITUATIONS.

SUPERVISION IS SUPER-VISION.

WELFARE

“ANANYAS CHINTAYATO MAAM YE JANAAHPARYUPAASATE

TESHAAM NITYAABHI YUKTAANAMYOGAKSHEMAM VAHAAMYAHAM”.

---IX-22WHO WORSHIP IN NONE-OTHER WAY ME

WHO ARE ETERNALLY DEVOTED TO MEWHO ARE WELL ALIGNED TO ME

THEIR WELFARE, TAKES CARE, ME.

WELFARE

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER RECOGNISES THE TEAM MEMBERS WHO ARE DEVOTED, SINGLE-MINDED AND WHOSE THINKING IS ALIGNED TO OVERALL OBJECTIVES.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF TEAM MEMBERS FOR THEIR WELL BEING, HEALTH AND WEALTH, PROGRESS, DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH AND ENRICHMENT.

WELFARE

THE MUTUAL SUPPORT AND EFFECTIVE INTERDEPENDENCE IS THE HALLMARK OF RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AND HIS RESPONSIBLE.

SHARE AND CARE FOR PEOPLE’S WELFARE.

EFFORTFUL OFFERINGS

“PATRAM PUSHPAM PHALAM TOYAMYE ME BHAKTYA PRAYACHATI

TADAHAM BHAKTI UPAHRITAMASHNAAMI PRAY ATAATMANAH.”

---IX-26“A LEAF, FLOWER, FRUIT OR WATER, MAY BEWITH DEVOTION WHOEVER OFFERS TO ME

THAT DEVOTEE’S EFFORTFUL OFFERING TO MEI ACCEPT WITH LOVE, NOW YOU SEE ! “

EFFORTFUL OFFERINGS

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER IS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUANTITY OF THE RESULTS GIVEN BY PARTICIPANTS AND FOR HIM THE QUALITY OF THE DEVOTION TO WORK IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER CONSIDERS THAT DEVOTION AND SKILL ARE TWO REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY WORK TO BE COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY AND SKILL WITHOUT DEVOTION IS LIKE SELLING ONE’S ABILITY FOR A PRICE.

EFFORTFUL OFFERINGS

THE RESPONSIBLE LEADER ACCEPTS THE RESULTS OF THE WORK DONE WITH TOTAL LOVE AND THANKFULNESS.

WITH DEVOTION WORK IS WORSHIP.

VISION

“PASHYA ME PARTHA RUPANISATASOTHA SAHASTRASHAH

NANA VIDHANI DIVYANINANA VARN AKRITINI CHA.”

---XI-5“PARTHA SEE FORMS OF ME

HUNDREDS AND THOUSAND SEEDIFFERENT DIFFERENT ONES

MULTISHAPED, COLOURED ONES”.

VISION

THE RESPONSIBLE LEADER INSPIRES THE TEAM MEMBERS THROUGH THOUSANDS OF VISIONS AND NOT ONLY HAS HE VISIONS OF TOTALITY BUT HE ALSO HELPS HIS COLLEAGUES TO DEVELOP AND SEE THEM.

A VISION IS BEYOND NORMAL SENSES AND A SUPERSENSE IS ESSENTIAL TO VISUALISE.

THE RESPONSIBLE LEADER DOES NOT LIMIT THE DISCUSSIONS, INTERACTIONS, DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVES AND DECISIONS JUST TO LOGICAL APPROACH BUT CONTINUOUSLY ENCOURAGES HIS TEAM MEMBERS TO THINK CREATIVELY, DIFFERENTLY, NON-LOGICALLY.

VISION

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER HELPS TEAM TO SEE MANY VISIONS OF DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS, FORMS AND SHAPES. THUS IN THE PRESENCE OF A RESPONSIBLE LEADER THE ATMOSPHERE IS CHARGED WITH DARING, INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE SPIRIT.

THE VISIONARY CONCEIVES THE IMPOSSIBLE. THE MISSIONARY MAKES IT POSSIBLE.

EMPOWERED FREEDOM

“ITI TE GNAANAM AAKHYAATAMGUHYAAD GUHYA TARAM MAYAA

VIMRISHYAITAD ASHESHENAYATHECHCHHASI TATHAA KURU.”

---XVIII-63THIS KNOWLEDGE WAS DECLARED TO YOU

SECRET OF SECRETS BY ME TO YOUREFLECTION UPON IT NOW FULLY DO YOU

AS PER YOUR CHOICE MAY ACT YOU.

EMPOWERED FREEDOM

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ASSURES FREEDOM OF CHOICE TO HIS MEMBERS.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER GIVES FULL KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND IDEAS ABOUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE AND HOW, HE FINALLY LEAVES THE OPTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTER HIMSELF.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER ADVISES THE MEMBER TO DO HIS OWN THINKING, TO CONSIDER ALL ALTERNATIVES AND CHOOSE THE BEST ONE AS PER HIS OWN CONCLUSION.

EMPOWERED FREEDOM THE REAL LEADER DOES NOT IMPOSE DECISIONS

ON HIS TEAM, BUT AFTER EXPOSING VARIOUS ANGLES OF THE SITUATION, LEAVES THEM TO ACT AS THEY CHOOSE.

EMPOWERMENT IS ENSURING FREEDOM TO SELECT ‘WHAT’ IS TO BE DONE. DELEGATION IS THE RIGHT TO DECIDE ABOUT HOW TO COMPLETE AN ASSIGNED WORK. EMPOWERMENT IS THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE THE WORK ITSELF ALONG WITH THE RIGHT TO DECIDE HOW TO DO IT.

EMPOWERMENT TRANSFORMS DEDICATED TEAM MEMBERS TO RESPONSIBLE LEADERS.

FINAL POINT

“SARVA DHARMAN PARITYAJYAMAMEKAM SHARANAM VRAJAAHAM TWASARVA PAAPEBHYO

MOKSHAYISHYAMI MA SHUCHAH.”---XVIII-66

“LEAVING FULLY ALL OTHER WAYS YETAKE SHELTER ONLY IN ME

REMOVING DIFFICULTIES, ALL; WHOLE LOTFREEDOM GIVES ME YOU GRIEVE NOT.”

FINAL POINT A RESPONSIBLE LEADER GIVES FINAL

CONFIDENCE TO THE TEAM MEMBERS BY RESOLUTELY ASSURING THAT IF EVERY THING FAILS HE, AS A LEADER OF THE TEAM, SHALL NOT ONLY INVOLVE HIMSELF IN THE SITUATION BUT ALSO SHALL FIND THE SOLUTIONS TO ALL PROBLEMS.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER, AFTER GIVING FULL LOVE, DELEGATION, EMPOWERMENT AND TRUST TO HIS TEAM MEMBERS, KEEPS THE ULTIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY WITH HIMSELF.

A RESPONSIBLE LEADER’S REASSURANCE ENERGISES THE TEAM MEMBERS AND THEN

FINAL POINT

THEY THEMSELVES WILL UNDERTAKE THE MISSION AND COMPLETE IT FACING ALL THE PROBLEMS AND FINDING OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS.

THE LEADER’S ASSURANCE WORKS AS AN INSURANCE AND THERE IS A CONTINUOUS FEELING THAT EVEN IF EVERYTHING IS LOST, NOTHING IS LOST.

THE COURAGE AND CONVICTION OF THE RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AND THE TEAM IS THE FOUNDATION ROCK OF THE VICTORIOUS TEAM.

WHEN THERE IS NO WAY, THE LEADER IS THE WAY.

SUCCESSFUL POINT

“YATRA YOGESHWARAH KRISHNOYATRA PARTHO DHANURDHARAH

TATRA SREER VIJAYO BHUTIRDHRUVA NEETIRAMATIRMAMA.”

---XVIII-78WHERE THERE IS KRISHNA THE GREAT MASTER,WHERE THERE IS ARJUNA THE GREAT ACHIEVER,

THERE; PROSPERITY; SUCCESS; POLICY; RIGHTTHERE IS ALSO GROWTH THAT IS MY SIGHT.

SUCCESSFUL POINT A LEADER WITHOUT PEOPLE HAS NO MEANS TO

CONVERT HIS VISION INTO MISSION AND ACTION.

THE COMBINATION OF RIGHT LEADER AND RIGHT ACHIEVER, THE COMBINATION OF RIGHT PATH-MAKER AND DEVOTED CONTRIBUTOR IS THE OPTIMAL COMBINATION WHICH WILL ENSURE PROSPERITY, SUCCESS, RIGHT POLICY AND SOUND GROWTH.

THE BEST IS THE COMBINATION OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTING TEAM, WHICH IS THE COMBINATION OF DIRECTION AND DYNAMISM AND VISION AND MISSION.

SUCCESSFUL POINT

THE RESPONSIBLE LEADER IS LIKE THE HEAD LIGHT AND CONTRIBUTING ACHIEVER IS LIKE AN ENGINE AND THE POWERFUL ENGINE ALONG WITH BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS WILL MAKE OUTSTANDING PROGRESS.

RIGHT POLICY IS THE GUIDELINE WHICH ENSURES THAT ALL THINKING IS DIRECTED TOWARDS THE VISION AND MISSION THROUGH HARMONY AND CLARITY.

DIRECTION+DYNAMISM=HARMONIOUS PROGRESS

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