LEADERSHIP SPECIAL...A Real Leader

A Real Leader

A real leader needs to have two qualities to lead any organisation, one of the head and the other of the heart — sensibility and sensitivity. Often, we see that people who are very sensible are not sensitive, because they are so focused on reason and on being sensible and logical. And then there are those who are so sensitive that at the drop of a hat, tears come into their eyes, but they are not sensible enough. Neither of these two can become a good leader, because you need to have a balance of both sensibility and sensitivity, because we are all made up of these two very important aspects of our life. Intellect has its unique place, and so do our emotions. In the past century, the emphasis has been only on intellect. A tear in a man’s eyes was considered to be something strange, or unnatural. How can a man cry? And a woman taking a mike and standing up and speaking or fighting for her rights was considered to be unconventional. That is how the society was. Women could not lead. Women were not given that intellectual power to speak because they were brushed aside as the more fair and sensitive race. Today, the scenario has changed. Today, we need that softness of a female in every male leader, and the strength and perseverance of a male in every female leader. A leader has to walk the talk. We need three things in life — passion, dispassion and compassion. You can’t have only passion; otherwise, you feel stressed out. You need to have dispassion too, that is knowing how to let go. If you keep holding on to things when they are out of your hands anyway, you will only be more stressed. And a stressful person is a burden on himself, on society and on everybody. See to it that the person changes his whole attitude and feels better about herself/himself. When people are relieved of stress, then you see the wave of change that arises. Visit www.artofliving.org.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar DNA 130204