THE LEADERSHIP DILEMMA

With a view to providing deep insights to resolve the ‘ Leadership Dilemma", Chennai Business School had organized a 1-day conference on Monday 28^thNovember, 2011. The conference had eminent speakers from large companies- speakers who have dealt with or are dealing with such issues and who are open to sharing their experiences with the professional community at large. The following are the quotes by the speakers:

"Volatality and unpredictability are big challenges in the market today. Organisations need to be constantly jumping up and changing, rather than having a smooth curve"- Mr R Seshasayee, Executive Vice Chairman, Ashok leyland Ltd

"One must create leadership for the future not the past. It is important for the leader to engineer changes for the future and connect with the future"- Mr S Mahalingam, executive Director & Chief Financial Officer, Tata Consultancy Services.

"People don’t leave the organization, people leave their immediate manager"- Mr Aquil Busrai, Chief Executive, Aquil Busrai Consulting.

"A high potential person is one who inherently has the capability to pull learning’s of any situations that they are thrown in"- Mr R Shantaram, Co-founder and Director- Kelsa management Solutions (P) Ltd

"A lot of leadership to me is about what you learn, what you absorb?, it's a lot about understanding what are people doing right?, it's a lot about thinking how do I want to be treated? and therefore how should I treat my people?"- Mr Sudhir Rao, COO and Deputy MD- Renault India.