About Leading.....

Leadership requires
- IQ ( academic )
IQ will get a person through the door, this is a minimum qualification. It does not gurantee or differentiate the quality of leadership. What this assure is that the person can count, can read, and can write. He or she most likely is also able to reason with logics and analyze complexities and simplicities alike.

- EQ ( social skill and self awareness, emotional intelligence )
EQ differentiate leaders. Those with lower EQ are often unaware of their impact on people around them. As an example, a leader with low EQ may sleep in meeting without realizing that he is giving negative signals to others in the audience. He may lack ability to network and socialize with his national and international counterparts - resulting in ineffective leadership. A leader with high EQ are always present - physically, spiritually and emotionally. He does not abandon his citizens in difficulty or in festivity. He will be there in flesh and in a flash whenever there are natural calamities, be it flood or plights (of the his subjects).

- Ability to envision, influence and implement.
If there is a need he is able to come up with his own vision for the betterment of his subjects. When a vision ( 2020 ) is already exisiting, he picks it up and waste no time in implementing that vision. Effective leaders bring positive outcome - better employment opportunities, more prosperous lives to his subjects, positive perception internationally, and a sense of security and well being. Ineffective leaders bring chaos, stress, sadness, panic, and a sense of inadequacy. True measures are economics , quality of life and crime rate barometers.

- PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY
He who wants to be an effective leader MUST Walk the Talk. If he talks about anti corruption, he must demostrate in words and in deeds that he is indeed anti corruption and has zero tolerance towards such behaviour. If he talks about Islam Hadhari - he and his family are the best examples of such values. If he talks about serving others, he make it a point not to serve himself and his close family members. Whatever he preaches - he practices. That is implicit in the word - LEADING!

Leadership is a choice one make - preferably motivated by a passion to do good for others, the people one lead.