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What is Emotional Infrastructure?—Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—21st-Century Philosopher & The Father of “Soft Leadership”
Emotional Infrastructure sounds strange to many readers. Emotional Infrastructure (EI) sounds like Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence. But both are different. Emotional intelligence is mostly responsible for leadership effectiveness and it helps individuals gel well with others at ease and it is said that 80 percent of the leader's success depends on emotional intelligence.
However, emotional infrastructure is the emotional component of employees that helps organizations achieve excellence and effectiveness. We often talk of infrastructure in physical terms. However, there are also other infrastructures such as intellectual infrastructure and emotional infrastructure where intellectual infrastructure involves people and their competencies and capabilities while emotional infrastructure involves the egos and emotions of the people working in the organization and their emotional contribution and bonding with their organizations. It is rightly said that physical infrastructure can be built easily but it is very tough to build both intellectual and emotional. To some extent, you can build intellectual infrastructure, not emotional infrastructure. That is the reason although management is defined as managing people I would like to define management as managing people's egos and emotions which is a tough task. However, the good news is that emotional infrastructure involves no costs except giving a human touch while physical infrastructure needs a lot of capital to build.
To sum up, emotional infrastructure is all about employees and their egos and emotions. It is about their emotional attachment to their organizations. It minimizes attrition as people are attached to organizations emotionally. It helps organizations survive any eventualities as employees are emotionally attached to them. Hence, organizations must emphasize this intangible element for achieving growth and prosperity.
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Note: I had a brain hemorrhage. I was in bed for five months. My right hand has been numb and paralyzed. I am recovering. Thanks for empathizing with me. With gratitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJrSRLHPUk&ab_channel=ProfessorM.S.Rao
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What Counts—Size? Or Strength?—Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—21st-Century Philosopher & The Father of “Soft Leadership”
“Our aspirations are our possibilities.” —Robert Browning
People often boast of their size rather than their strength. What counts more whether the size or strength is a debatable issue. Let us briefly look at it with illustrations before concluding.
You must have heard the biblical story of David vs. Goliath where tiny David took on the mighty Goliath. When Goliath was boasting of his size, David came forward with confidence and hit the forehead of David with a slingshot and beheaded thus surprising everybody and proving beyond doubt that it was not the size but the strength counts.
When we take the example of the Yugoslavian leader, Marshal Tito he broke the back of the Soviet empire. President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher came together to bring down the crumbling walls of the Soviet Union, giving hundreds of millions of people the opportunity to enjoy freedom. Transformational leaders like Lee Kuan Yew brought Singapore from nowhere to the number one prosperous country despite a dearth of natural resources and geographical limitations.
Through the right strategy and willpower, a tiny can easily take on a tycoon. In fact, it is not the size but the strength that counts in any game. When we look at Sri Lanka it is a small country geographically but its cricket team is very powerful. It came up to the finals in the World Cup 2011 and played against a giant India.
India being the seventh largest country in size is still a developing country. However, geographically smaller countries like Singapore, Israel, and Finland are the developed ones and are world leaders in many spheres.
It is the mental size not the physical size counts in this world. Similarly, people must stretch their mental sizes, not physical sizes. Lal Bahadur Sastri, the former Prime Minister of India was a leader who was short in size but proved much bigger and better than stalwarts who were bigger although his tenure was short. It is the ideas that rule the world, not size. It is the strength that rules the world, not size. It is willpower that rules the world, not money or muscle power. Hence, what counts at the end of the day is your willpower and strength, not size.
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Note: I had a brain hemorrhage. I was in bed for five months. My right hand has been numb and paralyzed. I am recovering. Thanks for empathizing with me. With gratitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJrSRLHPUk&ab_channel=ProfessorM.S.Rao
Life is great!
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India
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This is a nonprofit blog to share Professor M.S. Rao’s passion and vision to build one million students as global leaders by 2030. Please don't cut articles from my blog; redistribute them by email or post them on the web. The use of this material is free provided the copyright is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com. This material may not be sold, published in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party without permission.
Is Sonia Gandhi a Soft Leader and Indira Gandhi a Hard Leader?—Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—21st-Century Philosopher & The Father of “Soft Leadership”
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." —Theodore Roosevelt
Do you find it difficult to choose between two leaders Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi? Do you find it tough to decide who is a better leader? Here is the response.
Both Indira Gandhi and Sonia are good leaders but their leadership styles are different. Indira Gandhi believed in a hard leadership style which is all about believing more in performance than in people while running her government. In contrast, Sonia Gandhi believed in soft leadership which is all about emphasizing more on the concern for people than on performance. Indira Gandhi believed in a transactional leadership style while Sonia Gandhi in a transformational style. Although Sonia appears soft externally she is a strong woman who makes hard decisions with more concern for people. Above all, the times that prevailed during Indira Gandhi forced her to act like a hard leader while the current times demand more of a soft approach to resolving various issues.
Sonia’s Soft Leadership
Sonia is a cool thinker. She is against corruption and quick in making decisions, especially against corrupt people, irrespective of party affiliations. She proved herself more as a soft leader while her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi was a hard leader. Probably Sonia is a soft leader as she runs a coalition government that needs a lot of balancing acts.
Sonia entered politics reluctantly like her husband late Rajiv Gandhi. She stood like a rock when her husband was assassinated. She brought her two children through the right values and ethics. She did not get everything on a platter in politics. She entered the Congress party when it was disintegrated that too when the party was in opposition. She took the reins and rejuvenated the Congress party.
Sonia surprised her critics by bringing the Congress government back to the Centre through her soft and effective leadership skills and abilities. She flatly refused to become the Prime Minister of India when everything was easy for her. She surprised her critics and opponents by sacrificing power and installing a minority Sikh and a clean personality —Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Sonia is a strong woman with great character who means business. She has become the symbol of women's leadership and a role model for Indian women. The future belongs to soft leaders like Sonia Gandhi.
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Note: I had a brain hemorrhage. I was in bed for five months. My right hand has been numb and paralyzed. I am recovering. Thanks for empathizing with me. With gratitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJrSRLHPUk&ab_channel=ProfessorM.S.Rao
Life is great!
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India
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How to Build Your Leadership Resume—Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.—21st-Century Philosopher & The Father of “Soft Leadership”
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." —Theodore Roosevelt.
If you want to build your leadership resume globally, you need to have a five-fold strategy. First, create new things in your domain as nobody appreciates the routine things. You need to go by the road less traveled. Secondly, communicate with the world through research papers and articles either by blogging and, or writing to magazines and journals. Thirdly, teach and train people in your area of interest. Fourthly, network with the experts in your area of interest, and fifthly, lead in your domain by interacting with others globally by participating in conferences, and seminars as a guest speaker.
Leadership Resume Tips
Follow the below tips for building your leadership resume.
Check your passionate areas.
Be clear about where you want to go and in which stream of leadership you are inclined to grow.
Follow an unconventional path.
Create a unique roadmap to reach your leadership position.
Always emphasize pretty ideas, not petty individuals.
Always look at the ball, not at the score. That means, how you play is more important than looking at the results.
Although continuous tooting your horn is not advisable, you need to do something to stay in the race to get noticed.
Keep doing and keep going.
The number one leadership guru, John Maxwell is good at four areas such as leading, communicating, creating, and networking. He was not worried about his weaknesses. He knew where he was strong and leveraged effectively and grew as a leadership legend globally. He began focusing on personality development when he was 17 years of age by investing one hour a day regularly. You can take a leaf out of his consistent and continuous efforts and build your leadership resume to make a difference in the lives of others.
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Note: I had a brain hemorrhage. I was in bed for five months. My right hand has been numb and paralyzed. I am recovering. Thanks for empathizing with me. With gratitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJrSRLHPUk&ab_channel=ProfessorM.S.Rao
Life is great!
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/M.-S.-Rao/e/B00MB63BKM
Vision 2030: https://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com
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See the Light in You: https://www.amazon.com/See-Light-You-Spiritual-Mindfulness/dp/1949003132
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This is a nonprofit blog to share Professor M.S. Rao’s passion and vision to build one million students as global leaders by 2030. Please don't cut articles from my blog; redistribute them by email or post them on the web. The use of this material is free provided the copyright is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com. This material may not be sold, published in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party without permission.
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