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| Guiliani prescribes leadership formula for rising India | | India, US poised at historic juncture in bilateral relations | | New Delhi Nov 18
THE INDIAN and American governments have displayed unique leadership qualities in guiding their respective countries
through the July 2005 Agreement, said Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New
York, while delivering a keynote speech on 'Principles of Leadership' on the
second day of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday.
Giuliani, who has also authored a book entitled Leadership, said leaders are
made, not born. He went on to enumerate six basic qualities that leaders
must develop, while giving examples from his experience as the Mayor of New
York at the time of the 9/11 attacks and other examples from US and world
history.
Leaders, according to him, must possess the ability to set goals; must have
the courage to take risks and see things through; must be optimistic and
success-oriented; must invest in relentless preparation; must be able to
work in a team; and must have the ability to communicate effectively. He
said Ronald Reagan and Dr Martin Luther King Jr were two exemplary leaders
who had complete faith in their cause and were willing to put in every
effort to achieve their respective goals.
Above all, Giuliani said, to be a leader one must love people. This quality,
he said, is what the leaders of India and the US have in common. Both
countries share common traditions and convictions like democracy, rule of
law and the need to bring people out of poverty.
Giuliani also took questions from the audience, particularly pertaining to
the war in Iraq and its imprint on the recent mid-term elections in the US.
Answering a question about how the US leadership has failed to stop the
situation in Iraq from deteriorating, Giuliani said he believed that the
goal of the Iraq war - having a responsible government that would not be
reliant on outside powers - was correct, although the execution of US plans
had been harder than had been expected. |
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