Leadership is no longer about aggressiveness and cut-throat competition. It is about intellect, fairness and justice. A report on a workshop on work and ethics conducted by Swami Parthasarathy

Qualities of a Good Leader

- The leader commits to an idea
- He moves up from self-centredness to a bigger idea (the ideal)
- Knows his job well
- Is industrious
- Takes decisions with the intellect. This helps focus the mind that otherwise keeps shifting to the past and future, what we can call distraction
- Leads the way and involves others in a co-operative Endeavour
- Is sharp enough to detect talent and train others
- Is ‘dispensable’ as good manager
- Is familiar and available to people, yet is not overt because that is vulgarity
- Simplifies procedures and implements them
- Is never attached to anything but maintains objectivity
- Has a sense of values and proportion-in other words, his values are set in the right proportion.