Session : 20-Jan-13

In our discussion today, we were focused on the qualities that a leader should have in order to lead effectively.  According to the authors of the text given for reading, the four main qualities that a leader should have were to show his weakness to his followers, learn to identify critical junctures, ability to empathize with the team and also an ability to show a difference whenever required. As discussed by Professor, the first question a so-called leader has to answer was to point how many followers he has, a question who many people are not able to answer because to be a leader, one must have followers. We ended our discussion b pointing out some caveats in the reading where the authors were contradicting themselves on many of their conceived notions.