A woman approached Gandhi and said: ‘Master, tell my boy to stop eating sugar.’ Gandhi looked at the portly six year old and replied: ‘Bring him to me again in four weeks’ time.’ The woman was surprised but did as she was told. Four weeks later, she brought the boy back again. Gandhi looked at him forcefully and said: ‘Stop eating sugar.’ ‘Why didn’t you tell him that a month ago?’ the woman asked. ‘Because four weeks ago I myself was eating sugar,’ said Gandhi.
The above story provides an important lessons for LEADERS to set good example. Leadership is all about the ability to influence, inspire, motivate and stimulate people to achieve their potential. "Walking the talk" is one of the key requirements for effective leadership, as it is often said that a man who is full of words but not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Leadership is not taken, but given. People choose to follow those they trust, with integrity and whose behaviour and actions are totally consistent. If you do not ‘walk your talk’ and act yourself on what you say, people are unlikely to perceive you as a LEADER.
As the sayings in Gita, "whatever the LEADER does, the followers will follow and whatever standards or example the LEADER sets people in general will follow" - yad yad Acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah; sa yat pramAnam kurute lokas tad anuvartate (Gita 3.21)
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