The Social Teacher

I was just thinking about our 21st. century. Being a future manager some questions pop-up in my mind - that what would be my job in the future? What should be the characteristics of a 21st. century leader? What kind of job a leader will have to perform? Etc. I’m trying to get the answer of these questions. So now let me share what I got from my research and analysis. To me leadership is all about creating a vision, vision of the future that you want to implement. Leadership is also about excite the people, motivate them, create a dream and finally ability to put all it together. We have seen the different kind of leaders’ like- Political leader, Social leader, Business leader etc. The 21st. century leader is going to be very different from the 20th.century. T he leaders of 20th. Century used to focus on command and control, but leader of the 21st. century will have to focus mainly on the collaboration, communication, co-operation, co-ordination. Because of the introduction of the inter...

Let me start with a joke- A person went to a mechanic with his problematic car and he requested its trouble-shooting. The mechanic, after hearing the problem from the owner, thought for a moment, took a hammer and applied a soft stroke on the engine head of the car. On sensing a change in engine noise, the mechanic told the owner that the problem is rectified. Then he asked for a service charge of $10 from the owner. The owner was surprised on hearing the charge of $10 for a hammer stroke and expressed his resentment. The mechanic replied calmly, "Sir, I have not charged anything for the hammer stroke but charged for understanding where to strike, and behind this understanding is my expertise of 20 years". The Purpose of narrating the joke is that knowing the solution is always more important than its implementation and achievement of perfection depends on this knowledge. Experts use their life-long experiences to know a perfect solution for a problem, but that is not always...