Follies of Young Leaders ET Article

Follies of Young Leaders: ET Article

Dear IM 18 students, 

Here is an article " Follies of Young leaders " appeared in ET  25 Sep, 2012

You are asked to write 'Leadership Profile ' as a blog. You might be confused what you need to cover in such a blog. It is suggested that you can make use of the contents of this article in developing your Leadership Profile Blog. Here are some ideas for you to consider.

• What are your goals ? Are your goals high / Very high / Low ? Have your ever got any feedback from any mentor on this aspect. 
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• Whether enough efforts are made to achieve the goals that are set ? Have you got
  plans / strategies to achieve set goals ? Whether your plans /
  strategies are innovative ones so that goals that are set  are made '
  Realistic ' and achieved ?
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• Have you identified your strengths ? How you have done  any systematic analysis ? Where are the
  proofs for that ? If it not done, when are you going to find out what
  are your strengths ? Are you doing mistake of trying to work on your WEAKNESSES.. ? Have you checked it ?
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• What changes you could make you in last two - three years ? any
  proofs / valid data for that ? Are they right changes you have tried
  for ?
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• Do you have any mentoring of people ? List one / two mentors you had
  in the last two years ? Was there solid commitment from you for the
  mentoring ? show proofs for the same?  What did they mentored ? How
  was it useful to you ?
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• Do you work life balance ? Show proofs..
  

I wish students  while writing their blogs include and think on these
questions for themselves. We can have discussion on this aspect in the
next class..
dr mandi

Student Doubts on Leadership

Student Doubts and Clarifications

1. 0 Student Question

Sir, I am now able to access the blog.

The course outline looks good. I do have a few doubts that i suppose i will get cleared from you during the course of this module.

Sir, are we going with the leadership videos based assessment or is there anything else. What should be my agenda for the next few weeks to gauge into the leadership and planning skills of a corporate individual.

Regards

Dr Mandi Response: 

1. Leadership video  is one of the assessment  criteria.. Final exam and other assignments are also there..

2. Your agenda will be: 

Try to know what is leadership  needed for the company and position that you are aspiring for

To find out / discover what ever the leadership  that you possess

To practice on how to present leadership to placement companies ?

Above  needs serious reflection, innate desire to share and seek feedback from others,  fine technique to present the same to others in a convincing manner..
Contact me for further.. dr mandi

Leadership Question Papers - PREVIOUS YEARS

 

December 2011 

HR – O1: CORPORATE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT     

PGDIM – 17,   6th Module Ending Examination –

Dec. 2011    Max. Marks: 100 ;  Time: 3 Hours

 Instructions:

1. Attempt any  SIX  Questions.

2. During the examination, No provision is being made to clarify any kind of ‘DOUBTS’ regarding this question paper. In case, you have doubt,  make necessary assumptions and proceed.  You are required to write legibly so as to score well in this exam.

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Q. No. 1.    Write short note on any  five of the following.

1. Paradigm shift
2. Negative Synergy
3. Reactive language
4. Emotional Bank account
5. Dependence and Interdependence
6. Apologizing sincerely

Q. No. 2 .    Illustrate  Proactive model in detail. Discuss how you use Proactive model to solve one of the  interpersonal problems taken from your work or personal life that is frustrating you.

Q. No. 3. What is ‘Begin with the End in Mind’ habit. Write Personal Mission statement and discuss how do you use it ?

Q. No. 4. What is the meaning of the habit ‘ Seek first to understand then to be understood’ .  Discuss in detail the foundations in practicing this habit ‘ Seek first to understand then to be understood ’.

Q. No. 5.  Discuss the Habit ‘ Put first things first ’.  Discuss how  - Time management framework  –  help you in  practicing this habit?

Q. No. 6 .  What is the habit Think Win – Win ?  Discuss the role and importance of FIVE dimensions which are considered to be foundations in practicing Win – Win habit.

Q. No. 7.  Read below given the narrative taken from Gandhiji autobiography - My Experiments with Truth,  page 6.

 “ There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording. Mr Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of the inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was ‘Kettle’. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but  I would not be prompted’. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbor’s slate for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying.  Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher. I was, by nature, blind to the faults of elders. Later I came to know of many other failings of this teacher, but my regard for him remained the same.  “ . 

Discuss the  above narrative  with the help of  Seven Habits  framework .

Q. No. 8.   Here is a narrative drawn from the life of J C Bose. Read the narrative and respond to the question at the end.

Having graduated from Cambridge, J C Bose returned to India with a letter of recommendation from his professor to the victory. This letter smoothed his path into the Indian educational service and he was appointed professor of physics at presidency collage in Calcutta. His appointment was not the blessing it seemed, for it involved Bose in three-year struggle with authority. An Indian in those days of colonial rule, normally received two-thirds of the salary paid to a European professor but since Bose’s be paid only half rate for a European’s Bose was not the man to take this lying down and accept racial discrimination of this kind.

Bose for three years  refused to touch any part of his salary, insisting that was entitled to the same reward as a European.  It was for him more than a question of his own self respect. Scientists have a habit of regarding the earth as one planet, and human beings as one species. Bose would consider no compromise, maintaining that the laborer was worthy of his hire irrespective of race or creed. The victory, in the end, was he.

Discuss the above narrative within Seven Habits  framework .

 

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 December 2010

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NITIE,  Mumbai – 87.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT      

PGDIM,   6th Module Ending Examination –

Dec. 2010    Max. Marks: 60 ;  Time: TWO Hours only.

 Instructions:

1. Attempt any  SIX  Questions ( 6 x 10 = 60 marks ) .

2. During the examination, No provision is being made to clarify any kind of ‘DOUBTS’ regarding this question paper. In case, you get a doubt,  make necessary assumptions and proceed.

3. You are required to write legibly so as to score well in this exam. 

 

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Q. No. 1.    Discuss the habit ‘ Be Proactive’ in detail according to Stephen Covey. Quote at least THREE  Proactive responses you  demonstrated in your personal life  as part of leadership development course ?  Discuss why and how your proactive responses help you to be effective  person ?

Q. No. 2. Personal Leadership is said to be the ‘foundation’ of Leadership.  Discuss  Personal leadership of Gandhihji with appropriate examples.

Q. No. 3.  Discuss the habit ‘ Seek first to understand then to be understood ’  in detail according to Stephen Covey. State  at least THREE  Proactive responses you cultivated and demonstrated in your personal life  as part of Leadership  course ?  Discuss why and how your responses are Proactive?

Q. No. 4.  Discuss the Habit ‘ Put first things first ’  in detail according to Stephen Covey. Discuss the framework to implement the habit to practice?

Q. No. 5.  Gandhi  and Gokhale relationship is considered to be a model for leaders and followers.  Arrive at least FIVE  pointers  and discuss the same with appropriate examples drawn from Gandhiji’s writing about Gokhale.

Q. No. 6.  Read below given incident and answer the question as given below.

 “ There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording. Mr Giles, the Educational Inspector, had come on a visit of the inspection. He had set us five words to write as a spelling exercise. One of the words was ‘Kettle’. I had mis-spelt it. The teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but  I would not be prompted’. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from my neighbor’s slate for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise us against copying “ .  ( Source -  Gandhiji  Autobiography,  P. 6 )

Taking the cue from the above incident, analyze and discuss Gandhiji’s  response within the framework of  Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ of  Stephen Covey.

Q. No. 7.  Read the incident given below: Here is a dialogue between Gandhi and Churchill.   

Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, was aghast that Gandhi expected the British to simply pack up and leave India after the war. On November 10, 1942, Churchill made his famous statement on maintaining the British Empire.  "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In addition, Churchill vowed to "crush the naked fakir."

Gandhi replied: “ You are reported to have the desire to crush the "naked fakir," as you are said to have described me. I have been long trying to be a fakir and that, naked -- a more difficult task. I therefore regard the expression as a compliment, though unintended. I approach you then as such, and ask you to trust and use me for the sake of your people and mine and through them those of the world. Your sincere friend – M K Gandhi."

Analyze and discuss Effective Leadership with the help of Gandhiji’s response.  Mention at least Five leadership learning’s for you…

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Nitie – Mumbai – 87.

December 2006 

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT     

PGDIM, PGDISEM  - 6th Module Ending Examination –

Dt. 18 .12. 2006    Max. Marks: 80,  Time: 2.5 Hours

 Instructions:

1. No provision is being made to clarify any kind of ‘DOUBTS’ regarding this question paper. If required make necessary assumptions and proceed.
2. You are required to write legibly so as to score well in this exam. 
3. Attempt any  FIVE  Questions.

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Q. No. 1.    Compare and contrast Ineffective Vs. Effective Leadership? Enumerate the concept of ( In )Effective leadership with the exclusive focus on the case of ‘Narayana Murthy’s  BIAL resignation letter’.

Q. No. 2. Describe the framework of  ‘Seven Habits of Effective People’  by Covey?

Q. No. 3. What is Business Leadership? Discuss the Business Leadership quoting any one of the leaders viz.,  – Aditya Birla, or Vargesse Kurien, or  Baba Amte?  

Q. No. 4. Design and discuss one specific and time bound ‘Leadership Development’ program designed for your self.

Q. No. 5.  What is Transformational Leadership? Discuss the concept of Transformational Leadership using a case of Indian business leader?

Q. No. 6.  Identify and discuss the leadership role in the concepts ‘Entrepreneur and Manager’.

Q. No. 7.  Read the case given below: Here is a dialogue between Gandhi and Churchill.   

Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, was aghast that Gandhi expected the British to simply pack up and leave India after the war. On November 10, 1942, Churchill made his famous statement on maintaining the British Empire.  "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In addition, Churchill vowed to "crush the naked fakir."

Gandhi replied: You are reported to have the desire to crush the "naked fakir," as you are said to have described me. I have been long trying to be a fakir and that, naked -- a more difficult task. I therefore regard the expression as a compliment, though unintended. I approach you then as such, and ask you to trust and use me for the sake of your people and mine and through them those of the world. Your sincere friend."

Analyze the above dialogue from the point of view of Effective Leadership

CLD assignments

HR 01: Corporate Leadership Development Course - Assignments 

 ' My Hun DON..!   My Hun DON.  ! ! 

My Hun .. My Hun .. My Hun .. DON ! ! ! ... 

Assignment I : My Leadership Video
Assignment - II : My Role Model Leader - Who, why, and how

Assignment - III : My Leadership Resume - One Page    
Assignment - IV : My Leadership 

Assignment I : My Leadership Video

What this video is assignment all about? 

PGDIM student at NITIE Mumbai are taking  Corporate Leadership Development course during Sep – Dec 2012.  As part of learning this course students  are asked to develop a leadership video on themselves by themselves on the theme ‘Leadership.  

Why leadership video of students and by the students?

Leadership Video of the students and by the students provides an opportunity for the students  to understand the concept of leadership as applied to themselves. As emerging Young Leaders students much better understand the concept when it is applied to them. Video also helps the students to leverage the learning process for their Placement activity. In a nutshell, this process of learning achieves the following.  

“  Learning + Leadership + Placement  ”

Goals / Objectives  

§  Enable the students to develop an idea about their Personal Leadership

§  Prepare and help the students in their Placement process

Focus of the video

Focus of the leadership video is SPECIFIC.  Student are supposed to make the video keeping in view their  ‘ Placement Season ’  Dec 2012 @ NITIE Mumbai. The video they made help them to share their leadership to potential employer company. 

Content of the Video:

§  Explore and understand what the corporate are looking from the student in terms of leadership ?

§  Explore and understand what competencies the dream position one is seeking for ?

§  Explore and understand what competencies one possess / demonstrated / developing?

§  Brief account of convincing evidences and instances where the student demonstrated leadership ?  

§  Explore and understand how to present ones case of leadership to  the prospective corporate?

General Guidelines for Video making  

Video should be made exclusively for the leadership course

Active presence of the student in the video is a must.

Student need to make his / her video assuming a dream company and dream position. No restrictions are envisaged for the list of companies and dream jobs one can imagine.

Suggested length of the video is in the range of 8 - 10 min. duration

No technical detailing of video making is felt necessary. It is left to the students to format right kind of videos for the purpose.

Minimum Video  quality should be  worth posting it on  social networks ex., LINKED IN PROFILE / YOU TUBE / FACEBOOK  of the students  where in students get placement  offers as the prospective employers watch the videos and invite them for a placement opportunity.

Submission Mode

Students are advised to embed their videos onto their individual student Blogs.  A master list of the videos will be submitted by the Class Representative on due date.

Assessment – 25 percentage weight will be given. Student Leadership Videos will be assessed on the following 

§  Understanding of Personal Leadership
   Leadership profile of the student

§  Quality of the presentation

   Disclaimer : Students making their videos are purely learning exercise. Any problems and risks associated with working on the assignment students are supposed. Faculty member is in no way responsible for any problems and risks associated.

Assignment - II : My Role Model Leader - Who, Why, and How ?

Each student is assigned to pick up one of leaders whom considered to be role model, and write and post blog on the leader covering who why, and how aspect of the chosen leader. 

Assignment - III : My Leadership Resume - One Page   

• Each student will post ONE PAGE ( short version )  a blog specifically drafted on their Leadership and posted as a blog. 

Assignment - IV : My Leadership   

• Each student will be posting their One page CV as a blog post. This blog specifically will be written on ones leadership taking in to consideration
  

 The company one is aspiring to join as an employee

The position that one is aspiring to join

The kind of leadership competencies that are considered suitable 

The profile of leadership competences and potential one is having with evidences as convincing as much as possible
* *  Assignment Submission dates are given in the main course outline. Submission of assignments are strictly followed. For your information.

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