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Leadership Assigment: Narendra Modi, Current Prime Minister of India

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and helped lead the BJP to electoral victories in the 2014 general election and state elections in Gujarat. Modi exhibits traits of a servant leader through his work to improve people's lives from a grassroots level. He also displays characteristics of leader-member exchange theory by setting goals, supervising subordinates, and making team members feel indispensable. Additionally, Modi shows transformational charismatic leadership through directly communicating visions to motivate the public and private sectors toward national development.

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Leadership Assigment: Narendra Modi, Current Prime Minister of India

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and helped lead the BJP to electoral victories in the 2014 general election and state elections in Gujarat. Modi exhibits traits of a servant leader through his work to improve people's lives from a grassroots level. He also displays characteristics of leader-member exchange theory by setting goals, supervising subordinates, and making team members feel indispensable. Additionally, Modi shows transformational charismatic leadership through directly communicating visions to motivate the public and private sectors toward national development.

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Leadership Assigment: Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister of India

Narendra Modi is the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. Modi, a leader of
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat from
2001 to 2014. Modi was born on September 17, 1950 to a family of grocers. As a child
Modi helped his father sell tea at the railway station, later ran a tea stall with his brother.

Modi led the BJP in the 2014 general election, which gave the party a majority in the
Indian parliament, a first for any party since 1984, and was credited for October 2014
BJP electoral victory.

Some of Modis positive traits are 1) Excellent Oratorical Skills, 2) Charisma, 3) Quick
Decision Making Ability, 4) Clarity of Vision, 5) Strong Base Support and 6) Connect to
masses. I could not fit Modi into a single leadership style. I think Modi is a mix of these
leadership styles:

Servant Leadership
Modi came into politics in the late 1990s, before that he was mainly into organizing the
RSS cadre and then eventually he went onto to work for the BJP. He never worked in the
RSS so that he would one day become the prime minister of the nation, he simply worked
because he wanted to work with the people on the ground and bring about positive
changes into their lives.

Leader-Member Exchange Theory


Modi sets goals and controls manpower to complete individual tasks; he practically,
directly supervises subordinates even at the very bottom of the pyramid. Most of
subordinates won't, and don't have to know the significance of their work or others' work.
By constantly maintaining a gap between his subordinates, Modi alone decides where
goes what. And he does this all the while making his key team players believe they are
indispensable; the ultimate skill. Making key team players believe that they are a vital
part of the organization and making them think that every action taken by the
organization directly reacts on them proves fruitful to Modi.

Transformational Charismatic Leadership


Modi has been directly communicating with the masses, be it the Independence Day
speech or interactive session with students on the Teachers Day. He is acting like an
Army General who motivates the soldiers to fight and lay their life for the common
mission of national building and creating work culture. He is giving vision to both public
and private sectors. A visionary leadership has capacity to articulate and create a realistic
vision that can be translated into action. Both on the economic and strategic fronts, he is
taking slow, but firm and consistent steps.

This beautiful quote from the Bhagavad Gita sums up my answer.


"You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of
action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be
attached to not doing your duty"

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