Leadership Crisis in India
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly” by John F. Kennedy.
Not all leaders are born, given the right opportunity, some are made, and leadership is not only about power in our hands but also about our knowledge regarding the management taking place globally, the dynamics, culture, and health environment from where we can generate integrated ideas for our system. This can be achieved by awareness and participation of leaders in international exchange programs.
The mushrooming of innumerable institutes throughout the country is a living epitome of the failure of either the education or the leadership pattern or both in India. If they were a success, there would not be the necessity of these institutes, students would study what they had to practice and practice what they had studied, and be asked the same in the examinations. The disproportion between these leads to loss of millions of man-hours invested by trained and qualified leader into memorizing examination material when they could have gone into service toward the society and country.
One would often witness young leaders with the spark of determination to reform the system, only to be hit back by it and the determination sheepishly fading away with a lack of awareness and opportunity to serve in statutory and regulatory bodies where they would have had the power to amend the system.
It is our humble request that the youth should be involved in the system with such opportunity and power which may help in changing the state of affairs as they exist today. We strongly believe that the young leader can rightly fill up the vacuum of leadership and bring about a revolutionary reform that you have so justly discussed. The youth may not be the sole panacea but do make a valid answer to most questions pertaining to the existing leadership crisis in the profession in India.