T h e C h a l l e n g e
In this dog-eat-dog, greed is good world, what is the role and relevance of righteousness & honour? What behaviour should the leadership emulate, is ‘winning at any cost’ outlook relevant or ‘winning for the right cause’?
R e f e r e n c e
Marayada Purushottam (Commentary)
Modern Day Leadership foundations can be built upon these two pillars of ‘What’ and ‘How’. As referred to in Fig 1, ‘WHAT is basically the ‘Purpose’ which Leadership is striving to achieve and ‘HOW’ outlines the beliefs/codes on which the journey towards ‘WHAT’ is based on. The key for us, at this point of time is that the Purpose be ‘Meaningful’ and the beliefs be based on a ‘Moral Code’
The ‘Purpose’ dimension (Fig: 2) moves on a scale that measures ranging from ‘Meaningful for Self’ to ‘Less of Meaningful’. Both these extreme dimensions are ineffective for the leaders and the optimal level being the ‘Meaningful for All’ coefficient.
The ‘Belief’ dimension moves from the lower scale of ‘Less of Righteous’ to ‘Righteous for Self’. Being ‘Righteous to All’ is the key. And even more is critical being ‘Righteous in all situations’ including favorable and adverse situations. However, many a times, as leaders we forget and let go of righteousness in face of adversity which many times lead us astray.