Leadership Lessons for Daily Living

‘LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR DAILY LIVING’ is an attempt to document the wisdom and the demonstration of leadership exercised by the ‘ordinary’—nay, ‘extraordinary’—people in specific circumstances. It is more about people exercising leadership and less about them being leaders. Each incident reflects some attribute of leadership being exercised in a particular context and time. It gives a deeply democratic message of enduring value that we all are capable of great leadership in our own spheres of living, and that we can cultivate the habits and the practice of good leadership. It engages the reader in a style that evokes the use of parables to convey enduring wisdom, each short chapter offers a story, from which Dr.Balu extracts enduring principles, which are then explicitly synthesized. The book is to stimulate self-reflection and inner dialogues on purpose and responsibility; or as input for conversation among friends or colleagues interested in discussing together the role of leadership in their lives and shared endeavours; or as a resource in formal classes on leadership at any level of education.