How leadership can make a whale of a difference anywhere
Steve Jobs. Sundhar Pichchai. H V Kamath. Narayanamurthy. These are some big names from the IT industry and the banking industry. They were all tallest leaders who were able to inspire billions of followers around the globe with their actions. They were also respected for their innovative qualities and are still being respected for whatever they had spoken or continue to speak even today.This is true of politics as well. The late Jawaharlal Nehru was reported to be touring some part of South Tamil Nadu, with one of India's tallest leaders, the late Mr. Kamaraj, the former CM of Tamil Nadu. An old lady came up to speak to Kamaraj who introduced the lady, his mother, to Nehru. The latter was shocked to know who the lady was. Such was the moral honesty in those good days.
We had leaders from all over India, who were similar to Nehru and Kamaraj. The level of achievement was stupendous, given the lack of resources. Foreign Direct Investment was unknown then. Today, the giant Public Sector companies like NLC and BHEL feed the entire private sector.
Cut to today. Unfortunately, not a single leader from any party can even come to some ten percent of the giants of those times. We can only hope that someone emerges from somewhere, with a massively clean record and becomes the tallest leader of India. Only then can India survive as a democratic nation.