Leadership

As for me the game Badminton portrays a great leadership principles. Let take a badminton player as an example. In order to play the game effectively and efficiently, a badminton player should move all around the court and not stay put in one area waiting for the shuttle cock to come to him/her. There are many moves in the badminton such as drop shot, long shot, rally, net play and the most glamorous move, which is SMASH. So as a badminton player, can he/she choose which moves he/she want to do ? Can the player just choose to SMASH just because it’s a glamorous move or can he choose to play only drop shot or net play ? Definitely NOT right because as a badminton player you have to use all these moves to actually return back the shuttle cock to the opponent and ofcourse to win the game. If you observe a badminton player properly, during the game, especially singles, you would realize that no matter where the player moves, be it a long shot or a drop shot or rally or even Smash, the player will always come to the middle of the court. It pretty much like no matter where the player moves, he/she will always come back to the ‘source’ (middle) to take control of the game. Now let’s see how does this games principles reflects as a leadership principle. As a leader, we can’t choose to be in only one position as per our wish.For an example we can’t only choose to be in front , like drop shot, or we can choose to only motivate from behind, like long shot or we can’t only choose to take the glamorous role such as smashing all the time. Like the badminton player, a leader should be an all rounder, he should be in the front when needed, he should be at the back and motivate others, he should be consistent like the ‘rally’ phase in badminton and he should also be the driving factor or when needed he should take the glamorous role such as ‘smashing’ in badminton. So what I’m trying to say here is , same as the badminton player, a leader should not limit himself to be in certain respective area alone but should be in the right place when need arise. You have to do any task selflessly and willingly. To put it in a simpler way, as a leader, you should move all around the court, sometimes drop shot, sometimes long shot, sometimes smash & etc. The point here is, we should not sit in one place and expect the rest to get sorted by itself. The underlying principle of any task you take should be out of LOVE and WILLINGNESS. Anything done out of obligation will never go far. Once you have the LOVE element there, you will automatically take responsibility willingly. That willingness will lead you to take ownership of certain task and that attitude of taking the ownership will lead to think in all areas to make sure the task is completed successfully. This will automatically put you in a ‘bird eye view’