GOOD BAD AND UGLY IN RIGHT PROPORTION IS LEADERSHIP

 The good bad and the ugly in right mix is what is leadership. People adore leaders since their good part is more visible while the bad and ugly form part of strategy that leadership is always made up of. Talking from the Indian perspective we talk of "sama dana bedha dhanda" as the right techniques leaders should adopt. The good and the 'sama' sync well as you do not need anything else to convince someone except good words and normally the method also works with people who behave 'good' for whatever purpose.

'Dana' is the way people who evade being good fall for, most often. 'Dana' is nothing but buying out people with favors and in present day materialistic world it is all the more easier for leaders to choose the apt item of 'Dana' which different people opt for. The role of leadership becomes a little complicated and demands the real skill of the leader both in strategy and approach when the last two options have to be invoked.

'bedha' in blunt language is divide and rule. When the division takes place on its own due to internal dissensions among a group of people the job is easier. But when it has to be engineered a person just cannot remain a good soul and achieve it. Overt and covert actions, deals, understandings and even exploitation of weaknesses form part of the operating system to ensure unity is fragile or disoriented in the opponent's camp.

 Persons indulging in such actions would obviously be pretenders and tricksters and their behavior unreliable and lacking truth. To control such persons without getting exposed and monitoring their actions to ensure that they do not exceed the brief happens when one adopts methods that are seen as bad. A good leader ensures that the ultimate goal achieved through this kind of operation is for the good of all in the society. Such kind of work is mostly got done by the leaders through people who maneuver and scheme operations and the leader holds the reins of control on his hands.   

'Dhanda' is a much more risky operation than other methods and the leader has to take calculated risk and weigh the pros and cons before the operation. Normally practiced after the other three methods fail, a good leader analyses the response of people for the earlier attempts and weighs his strengths and options. It may be arrest of a leader, attacking an enemy territory, imposing huge financial penalties or withdrawing some privileges that would cripple the opponent. It may also be some actions that could come after decades in life stories by some insider and spoken of as a scandal and are very much part of various sections of the IPC. Yet such actions are needed to run the show as a leader. Governance be it the State or Corporate, a Trust or a College does not happen in the normal course without such actions.

 Good people are averse to the thought of indulging in such actions. Yet when a leader takes the risk and achieves results such actions even if made public are readily condoned, ignored at times even appreciated. Though the Good Samaritans may not like participation, inputs and logistics support come from them quite often as they do realize that the route to achieve good is also through the path of evil. A leader may tread in the path of an evil for a while, but not an evil himself is always welcomed. Hence when the leadership succeeds in delivery, people remember the good part that is visible and manifest and may not comprehend subsisting of the other aspects. 

Hence Leadership is good, bad and ugly in right proportion not for personal gain but for society benefit.

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