Time to vote!! Who gives me more
money, or liquor and may be some thing else as well. Our leaders are here to give us all it takes to rob us again!
Are we not confused, who should you vote, and how much money should I ask for? How do I know who is the right leader to lead us? And one of my friends was talking about the money he made In the last Election, it was whopping 10k in one day!!! Some of you must be thinking good time to en-cash your tax money! How much are you making?
Sir, there are people who claim
that they can change the country in some months, there are parties who claim
that they have empowered all (If you are a party member, we are empowering you
to take bribe).
ICICI world T20, Champions league
and Election in India, it’s an action pack year for us. There is one guy who
claims that he is clean (he doesn’t shave though), but how can he be, when he
belongs to the same party which was the most corrupt to rule Karnataka!.
There is a party which says
everyone is wrong apart from the leader who leads the party and party member. If you do not belong to that party then you are a corrupt leader!. Can it be ever true?
There is another party which
talks about the changes, growth, progress, empowering every single person, come on give us a break. All of
you have done is to simply never understood the qualities of a great leader. It’s a complete blame game one party shitting
on other!, what can you be expect from these “ so called leaders”. If any of
you are really serious about making this country a better place for people,
then please learn the qualities of leadership.
Some great guy once observed
“Time and tide waits for none”, how true? Very less people can make every
moment count! And those who make every moment count are the once whom we
remember forever (I am sure these dam so called leaders will never be remembered).
There has been never a great time,
never a great platform ever created than today to be a leader. It doesn’t matter
where you work and what you do. We
noticed and some have experienced it, but let see where this “AAM ADMI” can
take us to. History is filled with some
sort of “AAM, crazy people who thought that they can change the course of life.
These are those Stars, illuminate brighter than the sun. Spend their life time,
burn their personal life for others.
Kudos to Mr Mandela the man who
lived every moment suffered a great deal for Humanity.
I am very proud that recently I
read his autobiography (A long walk to freedom), A rare master piece for any
learner of leadership. “We live in such
a world where your value drastically increases after you are dead”!! (It’s not
advisable to try it)
We never spend time to know our
family and people when they are alive, but we spend more time once they are
gone!! What an Irony, we live like a spider, which creates and dies in its own”..
Let’s move on “Life is long process of getting tired” – Samuel Butler ( really).
I may not be able to list down
all the qualities of Mr. Mandela, but I will try my best to cover as much as
possible. If you think I have missed certain qualities then its only “I” who is
to be blamed. Never been a great book written on a great guy, any book you
write may not make any justice to the stature & pain of a leader. “Words
can never express the pain and pleasure of a man”…. It’s the feeling!!
“A philosopher once noted that
something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative
when he is old”.
It
is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A
nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its
lowest ones — and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like
animals.
Apparently this blog is not the
place where we can discuss about this…. All I want to do is to pay my humble
tribute the most sought out leader of all time.
I have listed down couple of
experiences of Nelson Mandela and explain us in details some of the leadership
qualities which we rather earnestly search in our leaders.
1.
Honesty
and Ethics:
During my second year at Healdtown, I
was appointed a prefect by Reverend Mokitimi and Dr. Wellington. Prefects have
different responsibilities, and the newest prefects have the least desirable
chores. In the beginning, I supervised a group of students who worked as window
cleaners during our manual work time in the afternoon, and led them to
different buildings each day.
I soon graduated to the next level of
responsibility, which was night duty. I have never had a problem in staying up
through the night, but during one such night I was put in a moral quandary that
has remained in my memory. We did not have toilets in the dormitory, but there
was an outhouse about one hundred feet behind the residence. On rainy evenings,
when a student woke up in the middle of the night, no one wanted to trudge
through the grass and mud to the outhouse. Instead, students would stand on the
veranda and urinate into the bushes. This practice, however, was strictly
against regulations and one job of the prefect was to take down the names of
students who indulged in it.
One night, I was on duty when it was
pouring rain, and I caught quite a few students — perhaps fifteen or so —
relieving themselves from the veranda. Toward dawn, I saw a chap come out, look
both ways, and stand at one end of the veranda to urinate. I made my way over
to him and announced that he had been caught, whereupon he turned around and I
realized that he was a prefect. I was in a predicament. In law and philosophy,
one asks, “Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who
will guard the guardians themselves?) If the prefect does not obey the rules,
how can the students be expected to obey? In effect, the prefect was above the
law because he was the law, and one prefect was not
supposed to report another. But I did not think it fair to avoid reporting the
prefect and mark down the fifteen others, so I simply tore up my list and
charged no one.
2. Empowering:
Education is the great engine of
personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant
can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the
mine that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It
is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one
person from another.
“IF YOU COULD MAKE THE LAWS . . .
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?” they said. “HOW
WOULD YOU SET ABOUT MAKING SOUTH
AFRICA A HAPPY PLACE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN IT?” Some of the flyers and
leaflets were filled with the poetic idealism that characterized the planning:
“FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, LONG LIVE THE
STRUGGLE.”
When from class society we move to
classless society there is a revolution awaiting to happen in future and that
will bring on a leader, a man who changes the complete perception of religion,
caste, private property, who will change the way people think and work…… And
that should and will happen anytime by the end of this century….. Capitalist of
this century will be withered as ashes in a summer wind… We will go back to the
old and ancient way of living our life, ever free of all our misinterpretation
of nature, religion, life….
3. Slogan
and Vision:
A slogan is a vital link between the
organization and the masses it seeks to lead. It should synthesize a particular
grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat
it. Our slogan caught the imagination of the people, but it led them to believe
that we would fight to the death to resist the removal.
4. Promise
only those which you can deliver:
The PAC put forward a dramatic and
overambitious program that promised quick solutions. Their most dramatic — and
naïve — promise was that liberation would be achieved by the end of 1963, and
they urged Africans to ready themselves for that historic hour. “In 1960 we
take our first step,” they promised, “in 1963, our last towards freedom and
independence.” Although this prediction inspired hope and enthusiasm among
people who were tired of waiting, it is always dangerous for an organization to
make promises it cannot keep.
This blog of mine is not complete
because I am sure there are many more qualities of “Nelson Mandela” are not
covered.
It’s an irony that we do not have
such kind of leader alive, the person who talks about no corruption belongs to
the same party which ruled Karnataka in recent time with lots of corruption
issues and leaders amassed a great wealth.
If ever we want to do something to
our country then it’s time for us to guide the right leaders in the right
place. Think about some of the qualities a leader must and should possess! And
choice is yours, whether you want to give chance to a right leader or not..
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