The book in its first two chapters details the Failure of Leadership due to misrule, misconduct, and misdeeds and failure of Bureaucracy due to malpractices in administration. It suggests an action plan suggesting corrective measures. It also pinpoints what is wrong with present state of management of our Business industry. It is atopical Study of these issues.To be sure, in the case of authoritarian rulers, followership can be maintained through the threat and exercise of force. As the end of the Cold War indicated, however, such followership can be fragile and is hardly conducive to moving a society forward. Indeed, creative leadership requires a voluntary followership. The transformation of China from a communist to an increasingly capitalist society can be credited as much to the increasingly innovative and voluntary followership as to the increasingly flexible leadership.It is here that theories of charismatic leadership fall short in explaining the nature of leadership itself. These theories argue that leaders employ their charisma to win over a followership and to overcome doubts about their leadership, implying that charisma is inherent in a leader's character traits--his personality and style. But charisma is not simply a possession. A leader's charisma is embedded in the orientations and needs of his or her followers. It can quickly dissipate, say, if a severe recession sets in, corruption is uncovered, or a war is lost. Long is the list of so-called charismatic leaders, even those with police powers at their disposal, who were toppled when the charisma they "possessed" failed to maintain the compliance of their followers. Thus charisma is a relational process, a set of ties between leaders and those who are ready to follow and comply with their urgings. It is rooted as much in the minds and emotions of followers as in the qualities of leaders.
About the Author
Dr. N.P. Rao received his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc., from i University, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Industrial management, and Ph.D. from University. He graduated from the International Centre for Advancement of Management Education, Stanford University Usa in Production Management. He was the T of Defence Institute of Stores Preservation and Packaging and Defence Information and Documentation Earlier, he worked as the senior Scientific Officer, al Scientific Officer and was a visiting Professor at Delhi Roorke and Stanford University on Management and subjects. He published Research work on storage, Preservation packaging, Transportation and management is encountered in the Army, Navy and Airforce. He traveled and represented India at the Asian Productivity Organization (Japan) World Packaging Organization (Phillippines), etc., and visited U.K., U.S.A., Germany etc., in Inventory' and Management Seminars Terences. He was a member, Operations Research . Management Science Association, Institution of al Engineers, etc. He has 40 years of teaching, i and consultancy experience. He was the Course coordinator for Management and Business Administration i in the Delhi Productivity Council, and Institute of management and Productivity Research.
