Comments on: Lee Iacocca on Leadership

By: Atanu Dey

Atanu Dey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:31:30 +0000

Sarat Kumar:

Indeed, I did write about the same book in April. So this post is a duplicate. Thanks for pointing it out.

Pankaj:

An old Zen saying goes, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” India still has a bit to go but will eventually be ready to have a leader.

Ghostwriter:

I am against personality cults just as much as the next guy. Regardless of whether one is a personality, even an American personality, I am more inclined to ask whether the person makes sense to me or not. Iacocca does. He did go ask the government to guarantee the loans that Chrysler needed to stay afloat and as it happened, thanks to Iacocca’s leadership and vision, Chrysler was able to repay the loans. The government guarantee did not cost the public one cent. It could have been a major fiasco had Chrysler gone under after the loans. But in hind sight it was a good move.

Lee Iacocca is a competent leader. So also Lee Kuan Yew. I admire competency.

By: ghostwriter

ghostwriter — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:25:03 +0000

yeah? – all sounds great from a man who ranted (yes ranted was again the word) against government bail-out of business while at Ford and then went to Washington with a begging bowl in had when in Chrysler.

I respect your academic choices and theories – but please spare me the personality cults from US Corporations!!!!!

By: pankaj

pankaj — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:19:50 +0000

atleast americans had leaders of repute not now,but in the past,atleast they can lament for lost leadership we indians cannot do so because we did not have any leaders as such we had only third rate rulers/PMs ,and i do not see it changing in the forseeable future.We indians lack vision and far sight.sensible Indians have rightly lost faith and trust in india.

By: SaratKumar

SaratKumar — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:37:42 +0000

Haven’t you already written about this (Iacocca’s book) earlier?
Its not the 9Cs in India. Its only a G- in the surname.
With most Indians suspending their thought processes, it will take a while before we see any semblance of an enlightened leadership. I don’t really see anything radical happening any soon. We would, probably, have some mediocre leaders doing the right things and getting rewarded for the same and thus creating a virtuous circle of greatness. That’s what I thought would happen in the case of Chandra Babu Naidu. It didn’t and it seems a similar fate is in store for Buddhadeb in Bengal.