{"id":740,"date":"2019-09-09T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soil.edu.in\/?p=740"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:24:39","slug":"the-true-meaning-of-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soil.edu.in\/blog\/the-true-meaning-of-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Meaning of Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.inner-pic {\ndisplay: none;\n}\n.blog-pic {\nwidth: 100%;\nfloat: left;\ntext-align: center;\n}\n.blog-pic img {\nwidth: 70% !important;\n}\n.new_blog_section p strong {\nfont-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', arial;\nfont-weight: 900;\n}\n.new_blog_section ul li strong {\nfont-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', arial;\nfont-weight: 900;\n}\n.new_blog_section p a {\ncolor: #008037;\n}\n.text-new {\nwidth: 100%;\nfloat: left;\n}\n.new_blog_section .new_blog_right_sidebar ol li {\nbackground-image: none !important;\nlist-style-type: decimal;\ndisplay: list-item !important;\npadding: 0px 0px 15px 10px !important;\n}\n.new_blog_section .new_blog_right_sidebar ol {\npadding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;\nmargin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n.blog_wrapper_full .one_column {\npadding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\nmargin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n.pic-new {\nwidth: 100%;\ntext-align: center;\n}\n.pic-new img {\nwidth: 100% !important;\n}\n.new_blog_section h6 a {\ncolor: #008037;\n}\n.text-new1 {\nwidth: 100%;\nfloat: left;\nfont-size: 25px !important;\ntext-align: center;\nmargin: 20px 0px 20px 0px !important;\n}\n.new_blog_section .one_column.pb_2 li a {\ncolor: #008037;\n}\n.content-new1 {\npadding-bottom: 0px !important;\n}\n.video-cen{ display: block !important; text-align: center;}\n.content-new1{color:#333 !important;}\n<\/style>\n<p>When you imagine a leader, what do you see?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-pic\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soil.edu.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled_design_20.png\" alt=\"The True Meaning of Leadership\" title=\"The True Meaning of Leadership\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a corporate set-up, usually the CEO or someone else in the senior-leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>In a political set-up, someone who is boldly leading his party, or someone fighting for the rights of the people in her constituency.<\/p>\n<p>In a social set-up, someone who is tirelessly working towards bringing about a social change.<\/p>\n<p>In a cultural set-up, our neighbour aunty who is organizing the annual New Year\u2019s Party for the residents of the colony.<\/p>\n<p>In an educational set-up, it is the school principal.<\/p>\n<p>In a student set-up, it is someone in the Student Council<\/p>\n<p>However, in the last few months, I have realized that the concept of leadership as I understood it was flawed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a world filled with ordinary people like me who do extra-ordinary things. We live our regular lives with purpose, with love, with meaning; and even the small things we do become powerful, impactful stories.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership is about leading the self, not others.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership can be about taking care of my physical and emotional well-being. It can be about focusing on my integrity, character, values and beliefs which define me. It can be about being on this journey of life &amp; ultimately finding joy in selfless service. It can be about any of the thousand ways in which I decide to contribute to this world.<\/p>\n<p>School of Inspired Leadership, is a unique one-year transformational program, which aims to nurture leaders in the word\u2019s true sense. They run a special course on Self Leadership which is focused on each student discovering their own leadership potential. 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