This document provides information about leadership including definitions of leadership, styles of leadership, qualities of good leaders, and examples. It discusses NR Narayana Murthy's leadership and impact in growing Infosys from 6 employees to over 155,000 employees. It profiles MS Dhoni's leadership of the Indian cricket team and rise from ticket collector to trophy collector. It also briefly summarizes Sir Richard Branson's career and the characteristics that have made him a successful entrepreneur and leader of the Virgin Group.

1. Archana, Arun, Sanjay, Sindhuri & Vinod

2. Content
What is Leadership?
Impact of Leadership-Infosys
Styles of Leadership
Quality of leaders
MS Dhoni-Cricketer
Major business challenges
The Leadership In 21st Century
Sir Richard Branson
Video on Leadership
Impact of Leadership-Infosys

3. What is Leadership?
 The abilty to influenece a group
or individual toward the
achievement of a vision or set
of goal.
 Clearly stating your vision!
 Explaining your plan for attaining
your vision!
 Instilling confidence and
optimism!
 Expressing confidence in those
you lead!!!

4. Impact of Leadership-Infosys
N. R. Narayana Murthy
founder of Infosys
Employees
Employees
6 (1983)
155,629 (2013)

5. Styles of Leadership

6. Styles of Leadership
1. Autocratic Leadership: Individual control over all decisions.
Example: Colonel Gaddafi
2. Democratic Leadership: They Listen to and act on opinions of the
group. Example: Barack Obama & Narendra Modi
3. Visionary Leadership: The processes, steps, and methods of
leadership are achieved with and through people. Example: Mother
Teresa & Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
4. Laissez Faire Leadership: Make very few decisions and give very
little feedback .
5. Transactional Leadership:These leaders motivate their followers by
promoting the reward of winning the game.

7. Quality of Leader

8. Quality of Leaders-I
1. Listening
"When people talk,listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
2. Storytelling
"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." -Robert
McAfee Brown
3. Authenticity
"I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I
had, I'd have done it a lot earlier." -Oprah Winfrey
4. Transparency
"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth." -John
Whittier

9. Quality of Leaders-II
5. Team Playing
"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." -SEAL Team Saying
6. Responsiveness
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." -Charles Swindoll
7. Adaptability
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." -Ben Franklin
8. Passion
"The only way to do great work is to love the work you do." -Steve Jobs

10. Quality of Leaders-III
9. Surprise and Delight
"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others
cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless." -Charles de
Gaulle
10. Simplicity
"Less isn't more; just enough is more." -Milton Glaser
11. Gratefulness
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is
happiness doubled by wonder." -Gilbert Chesterton

11. Ticket collector to trophy
collector- Mahi (MSD)

12. The 'Captain Cool' of the Indian cricket team.
It's about an ordinary man who went on to do
extraordinary things.
Dhoni is one those few captains in sports who have
always led from the front, more so, in a situation of
crisis.
Dhoni motivates his team well during all cricketing
sessions.
Success does not go to his Head
MS Dhoni-Cricketer

13. Leadership from the front

14. Major business challenges driving the
need for effective 21st-century
leadership:

15. CONTRIBUTE UNIQUENESS:
"Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add
what is specifically your own.“ –Bruce Lee
 Have an original perspective that inspires people
 Apply knowledge from one area to another or
synthesize ideas from different disciplines
 Tell a different story about the material; Relate it
to your own life and work experiences
 Find a novel way to communicate key concepts or
approach a problem
 Trim the fat off of a theory or operational system;
add new elements that improve

16. ACT EFFECTIVELY :
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the
right things.” – Peter Drucker
 Tell a different story about the material; Relate it to
your own life and work experiences
 Find a novel way to communicate key concepts or
approach a problem
 Trim the fat off of a theory or operational system;
add new elements that improve

17. BE RESILIENT
“Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” – Japanese
Proverb
 If you believe in your mission and abilities, failure is
just a temporary detour.
 Most failures contain one or more lessons. Be
willing to admit your contribution to the failure, and be
ready to change your thinking about the issue.
 Listen to and collaborate with others, but do not
suppress your own voice and goals.
 You may need to take time to grieve the loss of a
dream, contemplate, and regroup.

18. EMBRACE CHANGE
• “The entrepreneur always searches for change,
responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. “ –
Peter Drucker
 The human brain naturally resists change, seeing it
as a threat.
 It is important to counteract your brain’s natural, fear-
based, conservative tendencies and cultivate an
optimistic attitude to change.
 Pay attention to the thoughts and feelings that
change brings up in you. See if you can watch fearful
reactions without feeling you have to act on them.

19. Sir Richard Branson

21. Main Characteristics

22. Virgin Group Net Worth: 4.6 bn, as of March 2013

25. Leadership Video

26. - Thank You