LEADERSHIPlessons learnt

A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most

nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others

follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson MandelaNoble Peace Prize Winner

I don't care whether I'm remembered. I do think that empowering people with the Internet and PCs is my lifetime's

work. That's my job; I'm thrilled about that and the new things we can do

there. It's also neat in terms of giving all this money back, to take my position where I've been the luckiest person to

help the people who have been unlucky to have better lives. I feel very

fortunate to have found that and [to] be able to get engaged and hopefully

energize that field as well. Bill GatesCo-Founder, Microsoft

Leadership is the ability to inspire others to achieve

shared objectives. Managers tell people what to do. Leaders

inspire them to do it.

Jeff WeinerCEO, LinkedIn

Be the change that you wish to see in

the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Not everyone is born to lead. The best leader, however, is one who "leads

like a baby." The baby, though apparently depending on everyone, is

the king of the household. It is the power of expressing one's love and

appreciation and sympathy for others, that enables one person to succeed better in spreading the idea than

others...

Swami Vivekanand

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were

no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you

can build your own things that other people can use.

Steve JobsCo-Founder, Apple

People don’t care about what you say... they care about what you build.

Stay hungry,Stay foolish

I played on my school’s cricket team, and there was one

incident that just was very stunning to me. I was a bowler — like a pitcher in baseball —

and I was throwing very ordinary stuff one day. So the captain took over from me and got the team a breakthrough, and then he let me take over

again.

Satya NadelaCEO, Microsoft

I never asked him why he did that, but my impression is that he knew he would destroy my confidence if he

didn’t put me back in. And I went on to take a lot more wickets after that. It was a subtle, important leadership lesson about when to intervene and when to build the confidence of the team. I think that is perhaps the No. 

1 thing that leaders have to do: to bolster the confidence of the people you’re leading.

THANK YOUAkash Agrawal

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