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David Shearer says his voting as Labour's new leader today signals a fresh start for the Party and the outset of the journey from Opposition back to Government in 2014.

"I am a fresh face for Labour and I represent a different start for New Zealand," said the new Labour Leader.

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Commitment creates SEAS Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute

OXFORD, Ohio, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Miami University announces the organization of its Lockheed Martin Leadership Institute within the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).  The guild brings about a visionary approach to preparing engineering leaders who possess momentous ethical standards and who are committed to creative and effective leadership.

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Whatever you deem of his ideology, Newt Gingrich's nearly two decades in national politics should be acclimated to as a learning tool for business owners.

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New Delhi, India -- ( SBWIRE ) -- 12/12/2011 -- As I sit down on the eve of my 40th birthday to take down this editorial, I couldn’t have thought of writing on a more important aspect – as outstanding political leadership is what India requires more than anything else today. And though I have written considerably on leadership, it has mainly been about corporate leadership. Leadership in corporations is massively unlike from political leadership, and therefore it requires a special model and a special line of thinking. While in corporations the unalterable aim is profit maximization in most cases, in politics the final objective is necessarily common welfare maximization. While in corporations the best leaders are often the best marketing guys, in civil affairs the best leaders necessarily have to be the people who are the sincerest and most hard working. While in establishment you can make do without the knowledge of economics, in politics that can be suicidal. While in business being unethical can hurt you and at most your stake holders, in politics the lack of ethics ruins an entire state’s future. And most importantly, while in corporations leadership is about commitment to the strongest and survival of the fittest, in state leadership, the focus always is about commitment to the weakest and survival of the weakest – concepts about which I wrote a few issues back in Organization & Economy (a Planman Media group publication), when I wrote about responsible leadership (please do log on to our website and curb out the link for the same: http://www.businessandeconomy.org/27102011/storyd.asp?sid=6462&pageno=1 ). Thus, for me, federal leadership is not just about having certain qualities but also simultaneously about not having various qualities. Rather, what is conspicuous is to ensure that one does not possess certain specific qualities first; if that is taken dolour of, the rest would then automatically fall in place. Keeping all the above in mind, I believe the copy of the 7 winning virtues of political leadership (viz Credibility, Compassion, Clairvoyance, Camaraderie, Commitment, Charisma and Competence) that I have developed is most suited for Politicians in non-specific and Indian politicians in particular, keeping in mind the spate of massive corruption scandals of recent! So what is so special about these 7 Cs of leadership that has not been read before? After all, is it not just another word play? Well, the difference in this model and any other such example is that in this model, each element or virtue is actually the opposite of one of the 7 sins of life – the seven barbarous sins that we are supposed to avoid; to a large extent, as normal human beings and to an almost constrictive extent, as a political leader! The seven sins originally are Greed, Edacity, Sloth, Envy, Lust, Pride and Wrath! So how are these related, you must be wondering! Let’s go one by one! The first sin that a conductor must avoid is that of greed. This is what seems to be the biggest problem with political leaders in India. Voracity. The reason behind all the lack of development in India at the cost of swelling Swiss bank accounts. Every Member of Parliament looks at politics as a source of making quick money at the cost of the land. And thus, instead of looking at the Commonwealth Games as a brilliant chance to develop the domain and its sports facilities – the way China looked at Olympics – they looked at the games as an break to create a massive scam and looted the nation shamefully. So instead of looking at telecommunications as a big possibly of taking the country towards better development, our leaders looked at it as a chance to raid and plunder. And this is where my first C of leadership gains importance. The virtue of credibility! Instead of greed, and dishonesty, public leadership is about credibility. That’s what defines a political leader’s true character. Once you lose credibility, you can still go on thanks to various reasons, but with no respect. That’s what most Indian politicians today suffer: the problem of credibility. The damaged sin every politician needs to avoid is gluttony – the attitude of trying to draught down everything by themselves, to eat, drink and make merry to satisfy their own bodily needs while millions of people die of voraciousness and lack of access to clean water. A political leader needs to be least bothered about ethical food and drinks for himself and instead should be thinking about how to give access to his people. One look at our unfit state leaders and their waist size will give an idea where their focus lies. That’s the shame we for to avoid. For real leadership was never about gluttony, but about the next C of leadership – Compassion. It’s the virtue of compassion for the starved, malnutritioned that can make a great political leader forget about his own food and booze and fight for his people the way Mahatma Gandhi did. The next sin a leader must avoid is the sin of sloth. Indifference is being spiritually and emotionally apathetic and being physically and emotionally inactive. That is what defines most of our politicians. In preference to of actively thinking and planning for the future, they are inactive and lethargic. Their lack of any press to do good for people makes them commit the sin of sloth. What they need in place of that is vision – a brilliant vision that can take the country forward. They need to be on the move. They need to be so active that they should almost possess the virtue of clairvoyance – the next C in my theory. They privation to have the ability to visualize the future and take the country towards that vision. That’s what great leaders are made of. The fourth sin that leaders must evade is envy. It’s one thing that takes them down faster than anything else. They need to stop envying their colleagues, their antagonistic and anyone around. Envy in politics, leads to politics the way we know it: The game of pulling each other down a substitute alternatively of supporting each other for a common cause. Today we have political leaders who know that FDI in retail is an inexorable truth. But they are envious of other leaders who might walk away with the credit; so they don’t let the policy dated though it might be good for their own people. It brings us to the next C – the virtue of camaraderie. That’s what a leader, unusually a political leader, needs to have. That’s the way you take people along. That’s the way you take colleagues along. And that’s the way you take the opposition along; instead of stressful to enviously pull everyone down and in effect pull the country down. The fifth sin to avoid is the sin of ache for. In its actual sense, it refers to the way politicians of late have been doing things – from threats to blot out their lust filled deeds to even murders. First, they can’t control their lust for women and they rampantly do the most unethical things; in meaning, promoting what they were supposed to stop – prostitution. Then to cover up their deeds, they go to further extremes. And it’s not no more than about sex, crimes around which are rising rampantly, but lust for a better life too that they need to curb. Lust is always invariably anti people. It’s the most non committed way of approaching any relationship , be it with a trouble or your countrymen. Instead of lust, they need to develop the virtue of commitment – the next C. Commitment is what differentiates an act from being set to rights and wrong. The sixth sin that political leaders need to avoid is the sin of pride! It’s deplorable that instead of having the next C – the virtue of charisma – politicians come forth pride. It’s the reason for their fall. It’s pride which leads them to believe they are invincible and they can get away with everything. It’s smugness that makes them take their people for granted and stop working. It’s pride that makes them reject what people say and believe their own yes-men. It’s pride that destroys every politician eventually. The ones who never let it approach them are the ones who survive. They listen to their people and come down from their high pedestals. They have the natural charisma! Charisma brings them closer to their people. It brings them fame and it takes them up. Pride takes them away from people, gives them negative publicity and pulls them down. So charisma is what civil leaders need to develop instead of pride! And that brings us to the final pernicious sin that every political leader, much like they say in most religions, should avoid. The sin of wrath. As political leaders, they must be aware of that wrath is a waste of time. It destroys. Not just the person on whom you want to take out infuriate, but it also destroys yourself. Wrath is what the incompetent possess. The ones who are not confident of their own skills use wrath to try and cripple others. Those who are confident of their own competence – the virtue that represents the final C – would never use wrath. They would rather use their own competence to win the fray. They are not bothered about destroying others or focusing energies on negativity. They keep doing their work with their own competence and win the war. That, my friends, is what civil leadership all about – avoiding the 7 keys sins that most religions also talk about, and instead developing the seven fetching virtues, or the 7Cs, to lead their countries towards a better future. That’s what great leaders like Gandhi, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, George Washington, Lenin, Nelson Mandela and Che Guevara were all about. Their lives are a moral in avoiding the 7 deadly sins and delivering on the 7 winning virtues! May a day come when Indian leaders are full of these 7 virtues and devoid of the 7 sins!

Source: SBWire (press release)

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