Most Inspiring Person — Sir Shri Ratan Tata

Leadership is integrated part of our life. We all experience leadership in our life from early childhood in our families, through friendships, social and sports activities, school & higher education, to politics & government and of course in our work, we all recognize leadership in other people and often in ourselves. The development of leadership theory also parallels the development of organizational theory.

Sir Shri Ratan Tata is a leader who engages more democratic style of leadership approach. However, at previous occasion has used other two kind of style as well. He is more democratic because he always encourages his group leadership to be creating good communication and participation. Future leadership are well informed about future strategy and they are very well engaged in decision making process. Most of the group long-term and short-term strategies are formulated by the lower rank of the leadership. They are treated as stake holders. Until now TATA Group has got leadership within them. Ratan Tata has occasionally shown some form of autocratic style of leadership. Sometimes when needed especially when quick and informed decisions have to be taken, but he is never too commanding in his nature, being a man of few words and being more of a man of action, this is evident from the manner he aggressively pushes for bold international deals, such as during the global acquisitions of business powerhouses such as Corus, Jaguar and Land Rover, and Tetley Tea.

Qualities of Sir Shri Ratan Tata:

1. A Visionary Leader

2. Ability to Motivate Others

3. Humility

4. A Man of Values

5. A Man with Positive Attitude

6. Risk Taker

7. A Man with Promise

Sir Shri Ratan Tata has great leadership qualities and skills from which we can learn how to be a great and influential leader in the future. We will discuss some of his illustrious leadership qualities and skills. We can consider these as lessons from Ratan Tata.

Five Factor Model (Big Five)

1. Emotional Stability: Ratan Tata has very low anxiety within him and has great sense of security with his future leadership.

2. Extroversion: Even being a bachelor Ratan Tata is very sociable. He has produced very positive affect on future leadership of TATA Group.

3. Openness: He believes in originality and versatility. By making £1200/- car he has shown his great interest with and innovation seeking personality.

4. Agreeableness: Within his management team Ratan Tata is well trusted and very friendly.

5. Conscientiousness: He is very dutifulness. He spent most of his life working for TATA Group without any self-interest. He is very well organised as well.

6. Style (Behavior) Theory in TATA Group: As per style theory, there are three types of leadership models are evident in leadership. These are as follows.

a. Autocratic

b. Democratic

c. Laissez-faire

Sir Shri Ratan Tata is an inspiration for me!

Originally posted on LinkedIn!