Leadership and Success: Exploring the Effective Leadership of Ratan Tata

People, Culture and
Contemporary
Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
What Makes Successful Leader..............................................................................................1
Identifying minimum of 3 main ways of measuring the effectiveness..................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is basically the ability of the group or an individual for the purpose to guide and
create an impact on the members and the followers of the company. It is considered to be the
achievement of the goals with the help of directing the humans. When it comes to leaders, they
guide their followers in doing the things in right manner. The objective of the presentation is to
basically explore the concept of the effective leadership focusing on Mr Ratan Tata, an Indian
Industrialist and the former chairman of Tata Sons. He was the chairman of the Tata Group from
the year 1990 to 2012. He played a very important role in developing the strategies and his
leadership has resulted in bringing out tremendous organisation’s success and till date is
considered to be one of the best leaders for the organisations. He is widely known for his
humility, vision and is a risk taker.
MAIN BODY
What Makes Successful Leader
In every situation, Ratan Tata Proved himself, the risk taking attitude is considered to be
one of the major reason behind his success. When it comes to the life of the leader, it is not easy
and every leader need to carry out effective decisions while also trusting their abilities. It is
usually related to trait theory which is based on the assumption that a leader must have a specific
ability or characterstics. When it comes to risk taking attitude, it usually comes from judgemental
ability intelligence, self confidence and decisiveness. In Case of Ratan Tata, he basically
understood the fact and always ready to take risk for the purpose to become successful. For
example, in case of Ratan Tata, he was not afraid of anyone and took steps in courageous manner
which helped him to gain success.
Ratan Tata focuses on being a good leader and his subordinates and always listens to them in a
attentive manner and always considers valuable opinions and important points. In reference to
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