17 April 2015 - QA 11

Does leadership have a role in promoting spirituality, or does spirituality have a role to play in bringing about Leadership?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Both are true. Spirituality promotes leadership. It helps you take up responsibility. What does Leadership mean? It means responsibility and inspiration together. It means walking the talk. It is these three things together.
A good leader walks the talk, takes responsibility and inspires people around to also walk the talk and take responsibility.
When you see an organization or other people doing this, then you also feel inspired to do the same and many others also feel like doing the same.

1. Teamwork is very essential in any organization. We need to learn team work
2. The human touch is also important; though not too much of it
3. We need to keep in mind that emotional and ego-related issues should not enter business. When these issues creep into any organization’s structure, then they slow hinder the progress of the organization.
If a person in an organization thinks “This person did not invite me”, or “That person does not respect me”, or “This person takes all the credit”, etc., then that is no good. We need to do away with these kinds of small bickering
4. Effective communication. You should put forth your good ideas also. It is not enough to just do good work and say, “I am so good and I do so much good work”. You also have to project it; communicate your good work in the organization.

If you just attend to these four points, then everything will keep moving well. I tell you, there will be some favourable and some unfavourable times in any organization. All that you need to know in such times is to look inside. Do not lose faith. Have confidence and move ahead with conviction. That is essential.