00:00A leader must know how to manage success.
00:05Most importantly, the failure.
00:06Every action of the leader should be transparent.
00:09You were also very involved with India's missile program
00:15and that you earned the nickname, the Missile Man of India.
00:18Could you please tell us about that experience
00:20and what were the main lessons you learned?
00:22I learned one of the important thing in this programs,
00:28both space program, missile program.
00:31We should know how to handle the,
00:36not only how to handle the success,
00:39how to handle the failures.
00:41Particularly, you are in the management environment,
00:43you are done, I want the young people to understand
00:47how to manage the failure.
00:50Because any task you do, you have to come across problem.
00:55Problem should not become the captain of the individual
00:58or a project chief.
01:00And the project chief should become
01:04the captain of the problems
01:05and defeat the problem and succeed.
01:07So this is what I have learned.
01:09How did you come to become India's president?
01:12What leadership qualities do you think are needed
01:15to lead a country that is so huge,
01:17so complex and so chaotic?
01:20Well, I won't say chaotic,
01:22every type of order comes out of disorder, okay?
01:28This is what's happening now.
01:30I was elected as a president of India 2002-2007
01:36through a well-structured election process.
01:42Now, the leader, not only to become the president,
01:48you need to give any political leadership
01:50or technological leadership,
01:54you have to have six traits one leader should have.
01:59And what are the six traits?
02:02Number one, leader must have a vision.
02:06Without a vision, you will not be a leader, he or she.
02:09So leader must have a vision.
02:12The second one, leader must be able to travel
02:16into an unexplored path.
02:19Normally, tendency to travel the well laid out path,
02:24but the leader, he takes a path of untraveled path.
02:29Third thing, leader must know how to manage success,
02:34most importantly, the failure.
02:38Any mission he does or she does,
02:42so he has to go through some failure.
02:45They should know how to manage the failures.
02:47Could you give us an example from your own experience
02:50about managing failure?
02:51Well, my own experience like this, 1973,
02:57I became the project director
03:00for Satellite Launch Vehicle Program, SLV-3 it is called,
03:04to put a Rohini satellite in the orbit by 1980.
03:07So when the time came, 1979, I think it's in August,
03:11instead of satellite going in the orbit,
03:14the whole rocket system went into Bay of Bengal, okay?
03:19So it was a big failure.
03:23So that day, Indian Space Research Army Chief,
03:28Prasathis Dhawan, there's a press conference,
03:30seven o'clock we launched.
03:327.45, there's a press conference,
03:34the whole world press is there in Sererikota
03:37at launch base.
03:39So I still remember the chairman of the organization,
03:44the leader of the organization,
03:46taking the press conference, I was by his side.
03:48He said, we have failed first time we tried to attempted,
03:54and this failure really makes us to believe
04:00we have to do more technological support my team,
04:05and they worked very hard,
04:07definitely in a year they will succeed.
04:10So I was a mission director, I was a project director,
04:14I am responsible for the failure,
04:17and he took the responsibility of failure
04:20as a chairman of the organization,
04:22and the leader of the organization.
04:25Next year, 1980, July, we succeeded.
04:29The whole nation was jubilant.
04:32There was a press conference.
04:35Prasathis Dhawan told me,
04:37you go and take the press conference, okay?
04:40The message is, when the failure occurred,
04:45the leader of the organization owned the leader of failure.
04:50When the success came, he gave to his team.
04:53That the best management principle,
04:56I have not learned previously, any books have not taught me,
04:59I learned from that experience, okay?
05:03That's a beautiful story.
05:04Thank you very much for sharing that.
05:05Next one, fourth point,
05:09leader must have courage to take the decision.
05:12That's a problem today throughout the world.
05:14Leader must have a courage to take the decision.
05:17Fifth one, leader should have a nobility in management.
05:21Nobility in management, a big question mark.
05:24So I believe leaders should have a nobility in management.
05:30Every action of the leader should be transparent.
05:33You know what I mean?
05:35Every, that is, a leader should work with integrity
05:38and succeed with integrity.
05:41Leader should work with integrity
05:44and succeed with that integrity.
05:47And I believe president, since you asked the question,
05:53has to be continuously in touch with the people.
05:56Rashtrapati Bhavan, where I was there,
06:01became a people's Bhavan.
06:03Instead of Rashtrapati Bhavan, it becomes people's Bhavan.
06:07And also, I travel into the whole state,
06:11cutting across hills, deserts, and sea.
06:13I was in touch with millions and millions of people.
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