Some Leadership Quotes which have always motivated me

Hello friends, today I am going to share some leadership quotes which have always inspired me.

Initially I wanted to take one quote at time and write explanation, but after planning for more than a year, I realized that I am too lazy for this. Consequently, I have decided to update the quotes and will be disserting one quote at a time later.

I have found these quotes useful and hope you will too.
A) The art of leadership consists in getting people to do what you want done because they want to do it.

B) Leadership is hard to define, what motivates people to better performance in some cultures may not work in others.

C) The key to leadership is to accept responsibility.

D) Leaders are the people who know where they want to go, and with enthusiasm get up and go.

E) Leaders can be recognized because their people give superior performance.

F) Good leaders face up the music, even when they dislike the tone.

G) Leadership is lifting people's vision, raising their performances to higher levels and developing their personality beyond their expected leadership.

H) There  is no such thing such as good team or bad team or a term like neutral leader. Leaders are either good or bad, effective or ineffective.Good leaders guide and lead. Bad leaders misguide and mislead.

I) Leadership has a moral dimension. Followers imitate leaders.

J) If Columbus had turned back, he would not have been blamed, but he would not have been remembered either.

K) A leader's personal example acts as a catalyst in inspiring others to follow him.

Please tell me which one you like the most.
Happy Reading.

My take on My Choice

Many friends of mine have been sharing the video of Deepika Padukone titled 'My
Choice' on social networking sites. It has been shared with adjectives such as 'great', 'awesome', 'fantastic',etc.This tickled my curiosity and I decided to watch the video.
Personally, I found the video very mean,out of context and a shallow attempt to support superficial definition of Feminism.
The following paragraphs will let you know the rationale behind my thinking so.


First about the Producers. The video is made by magazine Vogue. This same magazine happily propagates a narrow minded concept of beauty. According to them to be beautiful you need to have sizezero figure, no blemishes on face, a fair skin colour, perfectly curved lips and so on. As expected, women empowerment to this magazine is more about dresses, sex and body. It can't go beyond it. Bashing this kind of narrow outlook of beauty Lena Dunham had published a book " Not that kind of Girl".  This week ( 4 April 2015) French parliament passed a bill banning skinny models in Paris fashion show.


Back to Video. Some trivial facts.The video has been directed by Homi Adjania and features 98+ women associated with film industry. Still the film is silent on issues faced by women while working in film industry. The problems faced by female artists include unequal pay parity compared to male counterparts,casting couch, portraying girls as ohe who can be seduced by stalking, the cult of item songs and many more things. The film is also silent on issues faced by women everyday like eveteasing, financial independence,domestic violence, rapes, abuses and many more social issues. I am not saying that the film should have covered all the topics. But had it been spoken on anyohe of the problems it would have been impactful. Alas! Instead the film chooses to promote personal choices and tends to promote anarchy by speaking of personal issues like sex before marriage,outside marriage, choice of clothes and a shallow definition of relationships. It is a common knowledge that for today's youth sex is not a tabooword and by the mention of these words are mere to spice up the video (typical Bollywood masala formula). By encouraging to break the established social norms and promoting despotism, the film dodges the real questions on equality,political and economic freedom, more security in live-in relationships, health and other questions.

By declaring it as her choice to whatever she likes the film is likely to damage society, culture and relationships.

I am unable to resist comparing ' My Choice' with two earlier interventions by Bollywood actresses, namely, "It's my fault" by Kali koechlin and a campaign spearheaded by Chitrangada Sen and others in 2012-13 against fairness schemes. Both of them had been very successful in transmitting the message in subtle,yet powerful manner. They questioned the societal value and forced wide scale discussions across the horizons letting society to introspect itself. Compared to these two,'My Choice' fizzles out. It seems to be a shallow and half-hearted attempt. A publicity gimmick rather than addressing the core issues.

Coincidently, the video made its debut at the same time when Deepika Padukone's new film trailer was going to release. Is it just a publicity stunt just like the cleavage episode?