Principle 49 :

Leadership can be understood in a couple of sentences.Firstly, the ability to think out of the box.This ability does not come naturally.It comes from an alert and knowledgeable mind and can be cultivated.Secondly,a leader should have crystal clear views of the issues that he is up against.Without this vision,he will groping in the dark like most of us.Leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi come to mind.Both knew what the issues were in great clarity;-the former on the issue of slavery even at the cost of civil war and the latter on the misery of the Indian situation due to colonialism. Gandhiji thought outside the box with his Satyagraha movement and Lincoln meant to preserve the Union,whatever the cost.