Describes 5 indispensable leadership qualities: Character, Charisma-, Commitment-, Courage-, and Discernment

1. Indispensable Qualities of
Leadership
- Prakash Joshi
(Referred from John C Maxwell’s Book)

2. What is Leadership?
• Leadership lies in character qualities of
individual person.
• Kind who attract people and make things
happen effectively.

3. • Do you have qualities to live out the boldest
dreams, ones so big that you never shared with
anybody? THINK AND ASK YOURSELF
• You need leadership for yourself
• Becoming leaders takes time, develops daily
not in a day.
• Leadership develops daily

4. Character

5. 1. Character
• Be a piece of the rock!

6. Example
• Lear Jet
• Bill Lear: Inventor, Business Leader
• Start1950, 1963 prototype, 1964 delivered first jet
• Success was immediate

7. Example…
• Two plane crashed in air
• At that time 55 jets were privately owned
• Lear sent message to ground all plane, until they
analyze
• Thought of lives were important than adverse
publicity
• Lear tested personally in the air to recreate
problem, he risked his life
• Created new part and fixed in all 55 planes

8. Example…
• Lear never regretted decision
• He was willing to risk success, fortune and
even his life to solve the mystery of those
crashes but not his integrity, that's take
character.

9. Character (cont.)
• Character brings lasting success
• Talent is gift but Character is a choice
• Crises reveal Character
• Adversity is a cross road that makes person choose
Character or Compromise
• Every time you choose character it makes you stronger
• Character more than talk, action is real indicator
• Your character determine who you are, who you are
determine what you see, what you see determine what
you do

10. Character (cont.)
• Leaders cannot rise above the limitation of
their character
• 4As which affect Leadership: Arrogance,
Painful feeling of Aloneness, Destructive
Adventurousness seeking, and Adultery

11. Character (cont.)
• Ask your self whether your words and action
match
• Can people trust your handshake
• Your character is most important asset

12. How to Improve
• Search for the cracks (professional, personal)
• Identify anywhere you might have cut the
corners
• Look for patterns, examine responses you just
identified
• Face the music: apologize, deal with
consequences
• Create a plan that will prevent you from same
mistake again

13. Charisma

14. 2. Charisma
• First impression can seal the deal
• Being more concern about other and make
other feel good about themselves
• Approach toward people
• Charisma is ability to draw people to you
• It can be developed!

15. Example
• William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli,
Great Britain in second half of 1850

16. Example…
• Gladstone was PM 4 different times, master of
finance, many reforms, great orator
• Established National Education System

17. Example…
• Disraeli served 2 times as PM
• Entered politics as Diplomat and Social
Reformer
• Great achievement was purchase of Suez
Canal shares

18. Example…
• Both leaders achieved a lot for Great Britain
• What really separates them was their approach
to the people
• Once women had meeting with Gladstone she
thought Gladstone is cleverest man in England
• When she had meeting with Disraeli she
thought she is the cleverest woman in England

19. How to Improve
• Love life: they are passionate and celebrator
• Expect best of people
• Survey of 100 self made millionaire Only 1
common denominator: they see only good in
the people
• The greatest good you can do to another is not
just share your riches but reveal to him his
own

20. • Appreciate others and encourage them and
help to reach their potential, they will love you
for it
• Give Hope: leaders are dealers in hope
• Share yourself: share wisdom, resources
• Bottom line is other mindedness

21. Roadblock
• Pride
• Insecurity
• Moodiness
• Perfectionism: unrealistic expectation
• Cynicism

22. How to Improve
• Determine how much of your conversation is
focused on yourself
• Focus on his interest
• Be positive
• Share your resources
• If you can do it for a day you can do it forever!

23. Commitment

24. 3. Commitment
• It separates doers from dreamers
• People do not follow uncommitted leaders

25. Example
• Michelangela, Italian Sculptor, Painter
• Born sculptor

26. Example…
• To sculpt magnificent project, then asked to work
penning project
• Didn’t want to work on project which will be seen
in small chapel in Vatican
• Pope pressed him, he reluctantly accepted the
assignment
• He thoroughly committed himself to it
• Include more than 400 figures, 9 seen in book of
genesis

27. Example…
• 4 grueling years, artist lay on his back, penning
ceiling on 16 chapel
• Paid great price, work permanently damaged
eye sight, at 37 looked like old man
• He made huge impact on artist community
• When asked why he working diligently on
dark corner on 16 chapel which no one will
see?

28. He replied God will see!

29. • Only real indicator of commitment is action!
• To each person commitment means different:
– Boxer: Getting off one more time than knockout
– Marathoner: running another 10 miles when
strength is gone
– Soldier: Going over the hill, without knowing what
is waiting on other side
– Leader: all these and more, as everyone you lead is
depending on you

30. • World has never seen great leader who lacked
commitment
• Commitment starts in the heart
• Look into your heart if you are really
committed
• Commitment always precedes achievement
• Winning horse run out of oxygen after first
half miles, and he goes rest of the way by heart

31. Types of people
• Cop out: no goals and do not commit
• Hold out: don’t know if they can reach so
afraid to commit
• Drop out: start toward the goal quit and going
get tough
• All out: set goals, commit to them, and pay the
price

32. How to Improve
• Measure it: how you spent
time/money/activities
• Know what is worth dyeing for it, see your
action match your ideals
• Accept it publically like Thomas Edison

33. Courage

34. 4. Courage
• One person with courage have majority

35. • The auto racer who set world speed record in
Deltona 1940
• The pilot who had highest number of victories
in aerial combat during world war I
• The secretary war special adviser who
survived plane crash in pacific for 22 days on
raft during world war II

36. • They all lived through dangerous
circumstances
• They all displayed courage
• They all happen to be same person, The Ace of
Aces

37. • Eddie Rickenbacker

38. • When 12 he worked in shoe factory/sold news
paper, milk
• As teenager worked as race car mechanic, at
22 began racing 2 year later set speed record
• At the time of WW I, he tried to enlist as
aviator, but because of under education and
over age he couldn’t
• Entered as chauffer, through request to senior
got flight training

39. • By the time war was over
• 300 combat hours
• Survived 124 aerial encounter
• Claimed 26 killed
• Known as American Ace of Aces

40. • 1933 become Vice President of Eastern Airline
• At the time all airline existed because of
subsidized by govt.
• He thought airline should be self sufficient
• Within 2 year he made it profitable, first in
aviation history
• He led Eastern Airline successfully for 30
years

41. • Leader make courageous decision
• The willingness to risk
• It is not absence of fear, it is doing what you
are afraid of doing
• Courage is making things right: where you
stand in time of challenge and controversy
• Courage deals with principle
• Courage inspires commitment from followers

42. • Fear limits a leader
• Courage opens doors

43. How to Improve
• Skydive/rock climb/talk to person: face the
music (as long as it cause genuine fear)
• You must do the things that you think you
cannot do
• Take giant step
• Courageous act often bring unexpected
positive results (e.g. Peter Cartwright, Andrew
Jackson in convocation)

44. Discernment

45. 5. Discernment
• Put an end to unsolved mystery
• Always at the heart of matter

46. • Ability to find root of the matter, relies on
intuition as well as rational thoughts
• Effective leader need discernment
• Organizational effectiveness lies in clear
headed logic and powerful intuition
• Evaluate your option for maximum impact
• Embrace change and ambiguity

47. Example
• By 1940s Swiss produced 80% watches
• 1960 inventor presented new type of watch
• Every Swiss company rejected his design
• Believing his design had merit
• He approached Japanese company Seiko
• Today 80% of watch are his design i.e. Digital
• One discernment driven decision changed
entire course of destiny

48. How to improve
• Analyze past success, what was root issues in
each problem
• Learn how others think
• Read biography of leaders you admire
• Listen to your guts
• Look into your pattern of guts and results, this
may give insight of your intuition ability
• Your intuition will improve with use