|
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Editorial
What makes productive leader?
What makes a leader?
Importance of leadership
Leadership crisis
Leaders for the future
Leadership Book
Know your leader
Gentle antennae of leadership
Women leadership
Bits & Pieces
A tribute to bureaucratic leadership
Emotional strength and leadership
Leaders and Managers
Leadership lesson from Bharat Petroleum
Leadership and competitiveness
About Organisation Dynamics
|
A tribute to Bureaucratic Leadership
In last 52 years or so, whoever has got the chance to interact with bureaucrats has only disliked them. Here, we present some of the views of great people, which, we are putting below in their own words.
- Dr APJ Abdul Kalam: …. However, I was determined to fight the inertia built into the system before I found myself being dragged down with it. I asked myself a practical question: could one live with these insensitive bureaucrats? The answer was big No.
- From his autobiography
- Walter Wriston: ( Ex CEO Citi Bank) ….About the time Citibank applied to the Fed to open a branch at the Hilton Hotel in Panama City, it also asked Indian banking authorities for permission to establish one in New Delhi. In a surprising twist, India okayed the New Delhi branch before the Fed signed off on the one in Panama. Wriston's subsequent discussion with the Fed illustrated the Fed's view of banks as institutions that needed government protection. "Being the wise guy that I am," Wriston said, "I called the Fed and said, 'Congratulations. You are now the slowest bureaucracy in the world. Up until this time, that was an honour held by the Indians. What's the problem?' "
- From his biography
- JRD Tata: At the fag end of his life, (1991) when JRD was informed that government has started thinking for reforms, he replied 'Let's see, if the bureaucrats allow it to happen.'
- From his biography
|
