Leadership

In the past leading meant being out in front, having highest position, scoring goals, getting the most votes etc.But leadership is changing today.As per new concept of leadership, it is about people, internal motivation, striving for perfection, change, having confidence, growth, energy, creating positive experience, results, reducing fear and increasing hopes.Mandate of leadership is far wide in comparison to managers who accomplish only a certain task.
Leaders have to give results, they set strategy, motivate and create mission, they thus built culture.Leaders are effective when they are human and treat others as honourable human beings.They should avoid grudges and favourites.They should be honest in keeping words and lead by examples.Leaders should communicate very effectively and they should have vision to initiate action.Effective leaders take people along and develop people.

Pull And Push Managers

Trust level in any team is high when communication is frank and open, members are mutually supportive when conditions become tuff, resources and knowledge is shared, confidentiality is maintained on personal level issues in the team, complaints are dealt positively and blaming is avoided.

Authority managers are called pull managers, they have following features:-
1.Authority based
2.Vested power
3.Tell oriented
4.Retain authority
5.Define limits
6.Enforcing
7.Restrict creating
8.One way communication
9.Personal distance
10.Mandate/dictates
11.Task oriented
12.Arbitrators
13.Demanding loyality

Leader Managers are push managers, they have following qualities:-
1.Influence based
2.Personal power
3.Ask oriented
4.Share authority
5.Expand limits
6.Rienforce things
7.Encourages creativity
8.Two way communication
9.Personal Interest
10.Persuading
11.Human resource oreintation
12.Negotiation
13.Obtains commitment

A Foot Forward

Calmness maturing in mental solitude facilitates self realization because external distractions are gradually removed.This goes to drop the desires and wants from the world.This gradually moves you towards objective living and socialisation.We find in this manner that there is less and less involvement in the happenings of life.Finally we realize and start feeling that our happiness is not dependent on things going around us in particular way.
This is how we can shed off self centered relationship to life and start experiencing the ultimate nature of life.It is freedom from fundamental limitations and small tit-bits of life.This is a kind of great liberation in itself.It also paves way to exhibit the real evolutionary potential of the nature and life.Thus it gradually removes all inhibitions which may exhibit the ultimate reality of life.

Happiness-Understood

To all my sons I ask one thing, "Have you ever pondered that everyone and all of us search only happiness that is anand." Intellect, experience, education, reasoning and imagination is right but real awareness and consciousness is above all and supreme.You have to take a voyage of experiencing the falling of seasonal leaves, rolling in air, dancing and flickering taking more rounds than really required to fall with gravity; it is expression of a mood i.e. happiness.
It is awareness which delimits our mind, it is the effacing, the quality of ultimate reality.It is whole never partial, only universal and never individual.
Living is a moment of happiness even if life is experience of an accident.A single falling leaf after maturity in the season is a symbol of life itself.A bright yellow leaf of banyan falling independently teaches us everything about life.
The moment we see this whole perspective and understand with every bit of it, we find that consciousness illuminates the world.It is there in every living being.It is corner stone of universal society.It requires a multimedia symbiosis where science and spirituality meet.There is no difference between one living being and another, the systems, biological formation, fundamentals of anatomy and psyche is the same.The love, hate, pain and pleasure are the same for all of us.Moving towards awareness and trying to understand consciousness thoroughly we will find most of happiness at the earliest.This is unfoldment of life.

Urbancentric Development

History of democratic nations reveals that a great threat to democratic and federal forms of government is the elitist trend of urbanisation.In present urban centric developing nations like India, the powerful elites stop hearing the voice of the majority living in the villages.Urban centric development is a problem in many countries of world depending upon the distribution of the villages and scantiness of the population.
There was always a need to oppose this type of development every time in the history of nations but convenience of the players swayed the way and it was never opposed.Perhaps Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were the exceptions who opposed it time to time.
Administration and the power in the urban centric society remains centered in the cities and what so ever rules are made villages practically are neither contributing to it nor it reaches there.They really fail to derive any benefit out of these laws and schemes.The autonomy and economic independence of villages is ruined by urbanisation.The last fabric of this independence is also devastated by urban centric development.
Urban centric power tends to privatise the government work, finally it gets a high price tag and genuine works are delayed and denied.There are expectations before rendering services in the system which finally breed institutionalised corruption and negation of genuine developmental and democratic works.It generates a vicious circle in which rural population becomes dirt for so called urban and civilised society.

On Happiness Of Life

If we ask a question from ourselves "what we want the most in life?" Whenever we get an answer it is always a one word answer "happiness", but what is happiness? whether it is good eating, good looking, good living, making headlines, running school of kids, inspiring scientific studies, laughter club or a joy logy workshop.Happiness simply makes us more productive, more attractive and more creative.It has always been emphasised that happiness is attitude and behavioural modifications can make us happier.But all this is not true, it is certainly a different way of life.
Lottery, bigger house, better job can bring only very trivial delight or momentary joy, of course engagement with family, passionate work and mixing with people, higher pursuits of life and spiritual values are better than the things narrated above: everything proved to be good and happiness giving should be continuously maintained and practised.We should also get rid of what makes us unhappy.What is energetic is also happiness giving, it should be maintained in our lifestyle.
Kindness, truthfulness, passionate communication, solving the problems of others and laughing loud are some harbingers of happiness.The moment you are happier you become a post of light and you emit much of happiness which makes everyone happy whoever comes in contact, counting our blessings, art and music culture and other joyful expressions and experiences of life make us happy.

Stress

Stress is a constraining force acting on a person who is attempting to cope with this force exerts himself and consequently feels fatigued and distressed.It disturbs the natural and usual equilibrium.The word 'stingere' means draw tightly.
It is also very true that stress depends on one's perception and appraisal of events.More you think you are deficient, problem is enlarged naturally.In fact anything and everything either by its presence or absence can be a reason of stress.
Stress if managed properly and coped in a well thought manner goes to change the personality for better results.It also develops our inner strength.The best way to avoid stress in long term is flexibility and realistic approach towards things and events.
Home and work environment, financial condition, ill health and spiritual pollution are some of the causes of stress.Time bound qualitative and quantitative targets, low efficiency of staff, worker associations, corruption and favouritism are important are stressors in the present environment of the society.
Regular lifestyle,righteousness, education, discipline and patriotism act against stress.Forget and forgive is a golden rule.We should accept failures and try to develop on the experiences.Time management and expenditure control help in avoiding stress indicators.It is a sure cure to cultivate habit of analysing the problems and we should also have realistic attitude towards problems.Concluding the suggestions we add, remembering good days and attitude of selfless love towards all.