A presentation by an author who is known for his books based on leadership. Popular among youngsters who have just started their career.

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COLLATERAL LEADERSHIP
PRINCIPLES
IN 150 SECONDS!
BY VIRENDER KAPOOR

2. PRINCIPLE-1
LEADERS ARE BORN AS WELL AS MADE
“leaders aren’t born, they are made”
-Vince Lombardi
Ability of leadership consists of skills and traits.
“Skills” can be learnt and mastered eg. Organizational
skills, delegation, discipline are all learnable skills.
Traits can only be gradually imbibed. People are born
with some traits eg. Tact and diplomacy, charisma, desire
to learn, creativity.
You have to give yourself time. Don’t attempt to become
a great leader overnight.
Events and challenges throw up great leaders. Second
world war produced great military and political leaders like
Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery.
Training programs mentoring and books help in
becoming good leaders.

3. PRINCIPLE-2
“Most pathetic person is someone who has sight but has no
vision” - Hellen Keller
 Vision is fundamental to leadership.
Vision is not a dream but a reality which needs to come
into existence.
Vision of the leader gives a sense of direction to the
organization.
Compelling reason of the leader needs to be put in
words, which then becomes the organizational goal and
vision.
Vision should be short. Google’s vision is “ To provide
access to the worlds information in one click”-Only ten
words.
Vision must be backed by hard work to accomplish it.

4. PRINCIPLE-3
LIVE ,THINK AND ACT LIKE A LEADER
“Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried
something new” - Albert Einstein
Look at yourself in a mirror everyday and imagine
yourself as a leader.
You must bring change and the first change must be in
you-To think you are a leader.
If you have an idea then speak about it.
Capture the imagination of others by thinking different.
You will waste resources if you do not act on your
thoughts. Indian army took forty years to make their full
sleeves shirts(sleeves folded) into half sleeves.
They could have saved two million meter cloth every
year, that is the power of action.

5. PRINCIPLE-4
COMMUNICATION-AN ART YOU MUST LEARN
“great speakers are not born, they are trained”
-Dale Carnegie
Content is the king. So work and collect material on what
you are going to speak.
Constantly update about your own field, specialization, &
domain.
Do your home work. prepare all details before a meeting.
Structure your thoughts, break each part in to sub parts
till things are crystal clear to you.
Be brief and speak with conviction. You should sound
genuine.
Add a dash of humor.It can work wonders.
Practice, practice and practice – rehearsing pays.

6. PRINCIPLE-5
PREGNANT MINDS-CREATIVITY
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
- Albert Einstein
Conceive, nurture, deliver- that’s what a pregnant mind
does.
Innovation need not to be totally a new idea.
Innovation is simply something different from others.
Creativity is a part of life and not an engineered process.
So think you are creative.
Metaphoric thinking brings creativity. This is an analogy
to explain an idea by use of a word. Eg.“I slept like a log”
Broaden your experience by reading on different subjects
and be prepared to make mistakes.
New ideas always have fog around it.

7. PRINCIPLE-6
SENSE OF JUDGMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT
Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from
bad judgment. -Bob Packwood
A leader needs to judge and gauge, people, situations
and problems.
For a good leader like a pilot, judgment is more
important than controlling instruments.
Judging a person is a most important task of a leader and
the most difficult one.
Humans are complex creatures with many masks, there
fore difficult to judge.
Assess a complex situation on your gut instinct.Over
analysis sometimes leads to paralysis.
Political and business decisions usually depend upon
appreciation and judgment.

8. PRINCIPLE-7
WIT AND HUMOR
“Without humor you cannot run a sweet shop, let alone a
nation” -John Buchan
Humor gives you a pleasant disposition and costs you
nothing.
Humor should be used with caution. Never at someone
else’s cost.
Bosses having sense of humor are liked by others.
Must use humor keeping in mind the situation.
Humor and wit(intelligence) go hand in hand and are a
powerful tool for success. Akbar-Birbal stories are full of wit
and humor – yet convey great thoughts .
Humor must be cleverly used in presentations and
discussions.

9. PRINCIPLE-8
NO POLITICS PLEASE
“In war you can be killed only once, in politics many times”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Politics in the organization is a leadership function.
It refers to the manipulation of people, power, position to
secure promotions & favors.
In the process you piss off many people, hurt some and
also make some enemies.
Politics sinks not only people but also organizations.
If you have politics, people in your organization will spend
more time covering their ass rather than working.
Politics always starts from top and the leader is totally
responsible for it.
You have to do nothing as a leader not to play politics!
Just done play politics.

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