14th May,
2004, I met India’s missile man, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. Till
that date I don’t know anything about this person. But since that Friday he
became my favorite leader. On that Friday afternoon Dr. Kalam shared his
thoughts with us at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was born on 15th October, 1931 at Rameswaram, Tamil
Nadu. He was the President of India from 25th July, 2002 to 24th July, 2007. Dr. Kalam is renowned
aerospace engineer, professor of Aerospace engineering and first chancellor of
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Tiruvananthapuram. He is the
only person who gave India “Vision 2020”. He is a great and stalwart leader.
Leadership practices by former President of India.
What are the models that leaders built to succeed in
its term? In Dr. Kalam’s way it is creativity. Creativity brings knowledge in
society, creativity encourages Innovative thinking. It changes person’s ability
to think and generate ideas, like Google, productivity of creative thinking.
Second, model he talks about Law of Development, which
stand on three pillars; enable resource to develop nation, technology,
productivity. In technology he gave weighted to communication and importance of
communication. Basic technology and Science is vital for any growth targeted
sectors. Technology has two sides; it can lead to economic prosperity and
create capability for national security.
Third, he added society grid. Society grid divided in
four parts; Knowledge grid, Health grid, Rural grid and Legal grid. This grid
system will bring prosperity to nation. It also adds value to nation in formal
or informal way.
Dr. Kalam’s name is permanently added in the list of
India’s great visionaries. In his words, Leader must have a vision for Organization.
He is leading ‘Vision 2020’ for India, as a developed country by the year 2020.
In that vision he included Agricultural and food procession, Infrastructure,
Water mission, Sustainable Rural Development through PURA, PURA (Providing
Urban Amenities in Rural areas) mission, Education development. He wants to
make India Energy independent country by 2030, with the help of solar energy,
Nuclear energy and Bio fuel energy.
As a leader, one should challenge the processes. Dr,
Kalam says, ‘A leader must know how to celebrate
the successes and manage the failures.’ Here he gave message, to handle
success and more importantly how to manage failures. Because as a leader he/she
has to come across failures in any field, and how he/she manages and bypass
that failure without any negative effect on his team’s performance and
productivity. In the challenging process, leader must have courage to take
decisions. And if decision went wrong he has been able to take
responsibilities.
Mr. Kalam is a kind of leader, who believes in
creating opportunities and creates leadership. As per his view a
leader must be able to explore uncharted areas. A leader must think towards
welfare of society, and must have creative ideas to explore new opportunity and
paths for people. A leader should have nobility in
management, when one is leader he do not thinks only about his/her own, but he
has to thinks for management and organization’s purpose with people in mind.
A leader should be enough capable to
motivate other peoples and encourage hearts. Here Dr. Kalam tells about how he
was inspired by this role model leaders, how he studied and lived with great
scientists. As he was keen to learn about Space science and technology
leadership qualities that underscore the significance of Space and Technology
in the developed nation.
He motivates younger generation
through the example of his idol Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. And from live examples,
how Dr. Sarabhai and his team launched satellite and create satellite vehicle
launce programmer in Indian soil. And how space applications has become a part
of our daily life and how it is changing the map of India in Global view.
“Learning
gives creativity,
Creativity
leads thinking,
Thinking
provides knowledge,
Knowledge
makes you great.”
_ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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