By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Traditional thinking associates leadership with authority and it is intuitively interpreted as having the power to lead people and organisations to bring about the change that one desires. Occupying positions of authority reinforces this understanding and people start relying more and more on the ‘power’ that goes with the position. Over…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam When one reads the several tweets that are flooding the social media space about the ongoing political drama in the State of Karnataka, one worries on how people are interpreting ‘Leadership’ and how they see the State being led. While one party cries foul and blames the selfish positioning of the…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam It is indeed amazing to see how people are constantly rushing ahead with their lives. All of them seem to be in such an undue haste. Very few actually stop, take a pause and ask themselves why they are in such an undue hurry. It seems as though man is engaged…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Living in Karnataka is like living in a world where each day reinforces one’s conviction in the existence of God. How else will one be able to explain the fact that the people are surviving and coping with what can be described as complete absence of State-driven governance in managing the…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Leadership and leadership outcomes are indeed difficult to define and measure. Though there is a lot of literature on this subject, the fact remains that very little is actually known. Though many yardsticks have been developed to measure leadership outcomes, some of the widely accepted ones are answers to the following…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam The results of the recent general elections have seen several people rejoicing while many others sulking or depressed. While it is easy to share the sweetness of success, it is how one responds to the pressure of failure that can bring out the leader in a person. While this is easier…
Mysuru: GRAAM (Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement), a public policy research and advocacy initiative in India, in collaboration with the ILR School of Cornell University, a leading school for Applied Social Sciences in the USA and Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), a long-term research initiative focusing on the design and evaluation of innovative…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Leadership is indeed a very much used and abused word. From Mahatma Gandhi to Hitler to the mafia don, everyone is called a ‘leader’. I have always believed that Leadership is innate within every individual and one only needs to manifest this. One has to call upon our inner resources and…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Mudalimadiah is a very senior and respected chieftain of the Kadukuruba tribe. Though I have known him since the time I went to Brahmagiri in 1987, we got to be close friends only after 1996. This was the time we had started engaging with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) about…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam The world is used to describing people as ‘leaders.’ Very few realise that it is not about being a leader but having the ability to exercise leadership. Being a leader is intuitively understood, but exercising leadership is not something that one can easily relate to. We are more prone to see…
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