“The highest destiny of the individual
is to serve rather than to rule.” – Albert Einstein.
Recently I was interviewed by an
eminent newspaper about my Vision 2030:
One Million Global Leaders URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.html
I was asked how I got the idea to create
this vision and the need to train only students as global leaders by 2030.
I served in Indian Air Force due to
love towards my nation and passion for uniform. I served for some years and acquired
several qualifications including DME, BSc, MA, PGDCLL, PGDBM, and MBA. After I
left Indian Air Force, I pursued research and earned my PhD in Soft Skills in
2011. I led a painful life both in
defence and civil as I was born into a poor family and encountered innumerable
challenges in my personal, professional and social life. While serving in
Indian Air Force I acquired knowledge on leadership as military makes the best
leaders due to the kind of tough training soldiers receive and the kind of unique
challenges they encounter both during war and peace. Hence, I developed passion
for leadership. While in Indian Air Force, I did not like the way things were
happening in India where we find unscrupulous politicians dividing society in
the name of region, religion, caste, and communities. Additionally, lots of
money goes into the private coffers of politicians rather than reaching to the
poor people in India. I was very much disturbed with the conditions in the
Indian society. In fact, corruption has become a cancer to the Indian society.
Hence, I thought of training leaders with a global mindset so that they can
develop the nation, promote fraternity and work for global peace and
prosperity.
After leaving the service, I entered
into teaching profession as educational institutions are the ideal places to
shape students and equip them with leadership skills and abilities. Second, I
focused on students as they are in teenage and they can be molded easily as
leaders the way military takes the young people and grooms them as soldiers and
leaders. I started getting overwhelming support from students as they were
inspired during my teaching and training programs in educational institutions.
Students loved me and crowned me with a title, ‘Professor M.S.Rao is Born for
the Students’ URL: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com.
As a leadership researcher, I do a lot
of research on various leadership styles and how leadership can be used for the
benefit of global society. I coined a new leadership perspective ‘Soft
Leadership’ which is drawing international attention URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17087126.
This new perspective can be applied both to companies and countries to
bring prosperity. During my research I
came to know that there is a looming leadership challenge globally due the
retirement of Baby Boomers (old people) and the Gen Y (young people) are not geared
up with global leadership challenges due to lack of effective leadership
development training programs. That means when the experienced aged leaders
exit from service there is an alarming leadership vacuum globally as the young
inexperienced people are not ready in the leadership pipeline to take up the
leadership roles and responsibilities. Although it is a threat globally, I
viewed it as an opportunity. I decided to train students as global leaders to
enable them to grow with leadership skills and abilities. So far, I have taught
and trained more than 25,000 people. I started taking the support of social
media to articulate my vision and I regularly post articles and videos URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/profmsr7
in my social media accounts to share my knowledge. Since I belong to Gen X
(middle age) I can become the link between the Baby Boomers (old people) and
the Gen Y (young people) to bridge this global leadership deficit. I considered
my age and experience in military and academia, and above all, my interest in
leadership and my passion for students an opportunity to serve students to
groom them as global leaders. Hence, I
pray to God to give me health, knowledge, wisdom, strength and lifespan to
build one million students as global leaders by 2030.
The interviewer asked me another
question whether it is possible for a one man like me to accomplish my vision.
I replied that Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Mother Teresa and Nelson
Mandela started as an individual but they made a huge difference to the
society. Remember, one man can make the difference to the world. That is YOU.
“What the future holds for us depends
on what we hold for the future.” –William E. Holler
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Life is great!
Professor M.S.Rao, India
Founder of MSR
Leadership Consultants India
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in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
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