The Great Example of Leadership

 Arjuna asked Krishna, 'Why Karna has a better liberality mindset than me?'

Krishna showed a mountain of gold and asked Arjuna to give to people in a single day. Arjuna went to the mountain and broke the mountain rock by rock to give to the people. It took him several days to complete it.

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Now, the same task was allocated to Karna. He gave all the people the required tools to break the mountain. He asked people to break the mountain and take whatever they wish. Everyone gathered and hit the mountain. They took away what they want and in few hours the entire mountain vanishes.

Krishna told Arjuna, 'You want everything to be done by you. That is why it took you several days. You determined how much to be given. You didn't use teamwork and required tools to break the mountain. Wanted credit for what you are doing. But Karna's aim was only to break the mountain in a day and distribute it to the people. He used teamwork, required tools and never claimed credit for giving it from his hands.

Leaders never claim the team's credit, they stand in the front at the time of the disaster, use the right team members at the right place, use the right tools and bring a team together to complete the huge tasks in a short time.

• Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and discipline ... Reliance on intelligence alone results in rebelliousness. Exercise of humaneness alone results in weakness. Fixation on trust results in folly. Dependence on the strength of courage results in violence. Excessive discipline and sternness in command result in cruelty. When one has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader.

                                         — Jia Lin, in commentary on Sun Tzu, 

                                                                                Art of War