Religion – Lessons for Leaders and Organizations

Religion has been part of our lives from the time we open our eyes till we close, some chose another road to find happiness and some remain in the same path. If we read about the history of humanity and how few events have changed the way we live today has been fascinating. I was recently enlightened from a book by Karl Marx, although his theory about Economics and socialism was far from implementation of capitalists. His thought process about family, society and religion looks very familiar and does make lot of sense.

The religion is a great tool for some to unite people, manier times the religion is used to achieve self interest and the history is the proof. There could be lot of things one can learn to be more effective leader in the society. While I was pondering what makes religion so deep in our intellect and life I was able to list down these qualities which help us be to a far better leader.

Sell Happiness:

The basic motto of any religion is make man search for happiness, and it tells you the ultimate happiness lies in “Almighty/God”. Look at how any religion sells the happiness to people around which makes them believe so firmly. So, if you want to be a leader find what makes people happy and sell them, one of our CM’s did the same but he failed miserably to keep up the promise hence he is in absolute on decline. Organization all strive to be more innovative and create products which makes life easy and happy. But the product can be replaced but not the faith. And Faith is build over a period a time!

Empathy:

One of the key quality of any religion is Empathy – Empathy is hard to express because it takes both Emotional quotient and Intelligence quotient. A leader/ organization must practice empathy if and when the product (selling happiness) fails. Not to deviate from creating another product/ purpose to lead people in a different direction. Religion has never deviated from its main purpose of selling happiness.

Be Persistent:

There has been an immense growth which we have seen in some religion, the number of people who practice a religion has only increased (This can be your mantra to increase market share). The only reason this has happened that they were persistence in selling happiness not anything else.

To be a great leader/ build a great organization find about what is happiness, be empathetic when you lose the battle but be persistence in your approach. Never take two roads in the wood, because both may lead you to different destination.

Until we meet next time “May learning Karma be with you” …