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Leading the Charge

The final stage is to lead from the front during the action. Transformational Leaders are always visible and will stand up to be counted rather than hide behind their troops.
They act as role models for the entire group. They also make continuous efforts to motivate and rally their followers, constantly doing the rounds, listening, allaying and encouraging.

It is their focused mission that keeps people going, particularly through the darker times when some may question whether the vision can ever be achieved. If the people do not believe that they can succeed, then their efforts will flag. The Transformational Leader seeks to instill and sustain their followers with a high level of commitment to the vision.

Transformational Leaders are awareness raisers who see strategic initiatives to be fulfilled, problems that align with their own life mission. As they make leadership commitments to those strategic initiatives, they make commitments to their own emergence. As they transform, the world is transformed.

Just as Krishna succeeded in convincing Arjuna, millions of people, through transformational leadership are now rising to a new level of leadership characterized by an unshakeable faith to transform the lives of others by creating a synergy of energy within their circle of influence.

To sum, if the India Inc., which mostly follows western examples, models and sources, can incorporate Indian texts and examples, it could well bring about a sea-change in how indigenous sources can shape both Indian and global leadership, as well as provide Indians a renewed source of pride and wisdom.

Concluded.

* Contributed by -
Aarthi Kalyanaraman,
Currently student of PGP-I at BIM, Trichy,
Article published in KRIYA, August'06 Issue, the monthly magazine of the institute.