Best Leader - Become Iron in Hammer Situation

IF PRESSURE IS THE HAMMER, BE THE IRON

No one is immune to pressure. There are many who surrender and there are few who endure.

Analysing The Pressure      

                                        What is pressure and what it does? Pressure as what science says, is a kind of “force” when somebody feels forced to think or doing act, one is under “pressure”.It is natural as any other social activities.

Like a child might feel pressured to score more to fulfil her/his parents expectations. Even in our daily life, we are remain confuse, take a simplest decision like which subject we should choose and what cloths we should wear etc.

Hammer

 We all have heard some people say, I perform the best under the pressure. That is the power of pressure when taken positively. If we tackled well ,it can push us to do our best.This is the pressure which act as the hammer. So, a deadline can push us to deliver more in a short period of time.

Leader Must Have The Iron

In 1980 airline strike in Singapore has become a legend. Singapore Airlines  has rigged with plenty of issues, the dispute with pilots union being the biggest. The union was pressing for higher wages, Facilities and better working conditions but to get its way, it launched an illegal “work to rule” industrial action where employees work no more than bare minimum to reduce output and efficiency. This led to disruption in services, losses worth millions of dollars in advertisements.

As a last resort, Lee Kuan Yew the P.M. of Singapore, summoned the SIA pilots and gave them two options - either they stop the illegal action, resume work with discipline.

Lee was fully prepared to ground the airline and start all over. It took the pilots just 65 minutes to realise it was not worth the fight and that is how, he becomes a legend. He said, “Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him Or give it up. I spend a whole life time building this and as long as I’m in charge, nobody’s going to know it down.

How To Cultivate The Iron?

India has many examples of such Iron-willed men and women like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Mahatma Gandhi and recently Indira Nooyi, the Indian origin former of Pepsi-co CEO, who faced stiff resistance to her approach   he/she took over the reins and late former P.M of India, Shri Atal Bihari Ji who is still fondly remembered for saying a firm ‘No’ to US sending Indian soldiers for Iraq war.

There are some qualities one can observe in all of these people like making right decisions, leadership and Iron spirit etc.

Leadership rooted remains in following:

Ø Purpose: Strong leaders are driven by purpose and anything which comes in its way, is sure to be knocked down.

Ø Focus: Even amidst pressure, leader do not lose their focus.They always concern about their goals.

Ø Peace full: They think calmly and always remains calm in under pressure situations. buckling under pressure  they remains calm and take next steps.

  

Ø Morals Values: Strong leaders drive their strength and guidance from core principles and values like honesty, integrity, decision making power and social justice etc.

        A LEADER IS ONE WHO KNOW THE WAY,GOES THE WAY AND SHOWS THE WAY. 

                                                                                     John C.Maxwell