What Exceptional Quality A Leader Should Have?
Great lessons are learnt outside the schools and colleges.
What we learn outside are lessons for a life time.
What is taught in schools and colleges are lessons for a short time.
What we learn outside is practical knowledge.
What is learnt inside is theoretical knowledge.
What we call experience is what we learn outside.
The one who experiences the worst becomes the best.
And here is the best management lesson learnt outside and taught outside by a very great personality.
What exceptional quality a leader should have?
The exceptional quality a leader should have is
``How to manage success and failure.’’ — APJ Abdul Kalam*
Managing failure is difficult, celebrating success is easy.
Success depends on how well do you manage failure.
Learning to manage failure is learning to succeed.
A leader is the one who takes the blame (for failure) and passes on the credit (for success) to his/her team.
*He was best known as the rocket man of India, the ex-President of India, the one who earned the name ``The People’s President’’, and, above all, he was a great teacher to millions around the world.
