Here we start a column on leadership by Mohammed Nibras P.K
Nibras is the Dpty. General Manager at LeadCap Ventures. He has several years of industry experience, primarily managing the qualitative department. In his career he has handled agency clients like Nielsen, TNS, Synovate, etc. and brands like HP, MTN, Coca Cola, Elizabeth Arden etc. During his tenure he has handled close to 100 projects, and has to his credit several innovative marketing models like `Compass Points Consumer Needs-Wants Model`, `Perseptio - Consumer Brands Perceptions Model` 'Decisio - Consumer Decision Making Model` etc. He also spearheads the voice of youth study. Nibras has an MBA with duel specialization in marketing and HR.
Some of the leadership lessons are learnt best from children. Observe how children learn new things and it can be found out that they normally follow a pattern of imitation to start with. They imitate the actions, language, emotions, etc of the people they come across on a daily basis; let it be in the real world or through some kind of media. Whatever children learn; positive or negative, they tend to ‘follow’ others in action, speech or even thoughts. The initial level of following others’ actions, etc would continue till a point where they start discovering their own thought process, character and behaviour.
Nibras is the Dpty. General Manager at LeadCap Ventures. He has several years of industry experience, primarily managing the qualitative department. In his career he has handled agency clients like Nielsen, TNS, Synovate, etc. and brands like HP, MTN, Coca Cola, Elizabeth Arden etc. During his tenure he has handled close to 100 projects, and has to his credit several innovative marketing models like `Compass Points Consumer Needs-Wants Model`, `Perseptio - Consumer Brands Perceptions Model` 'Decisio - Consumer Decision Making Model` etc. He also spearheads the voice of youth study. Nibras has an MBA with duel specialization in marketing and HR.
Leadership starts with Followership
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Budding or potential leaders can use the learning pattern of children to start their leadership journey. They need to first follow the action manuals of other recognized leaders about whom much is written and discussed. In other words, potential leaders need to commit to learn lifelong from other leaders before taking up the leadership mantle themselves.
It is urged to the potential leaders to use the decades of experience of the world leaders available in the form of books, Internet, seminars, etc. This would help to avoid wastage of time and effort in experimenting. Thus, to lead, fist we need to follow the footsteps of other leaders and eventually discover our unique style of leadership in the journey.
Some of the interesting books on leadership include ‘21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership’ by John C Maxwell, Decide to Lead; 9 Decisions That Can Make You a True Leader by Sangeeth Varghese, The Leadership Code by Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman, Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. Reading and following them can be a good starting point for potential leaders.
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