Living With Leadership

Description

The art and science of leadership is not confined exclusively to any one area of organized human activity, be it the profession of arms or any other arena including politics. All roles in all social systems from parenting to teaching involve a hard core of leadership, that of taking the initiative of making a desired decision and following it to its logical conclusion. How effectively this decision or vision is carried out is determined by the quality of the personality of the one who is playing the role. So, all roles are in varying degrees leadership notes, effectivity of which in turn depends on the personality orientation of the person in such position.

Hence, effective leadership in any profession or situation in ultimate analysis, is the outcome of personality make-up. And the effective personality is composed in the main, of three components i.e. vision, values and will. Out of these three basic components, the most important is the value component, the character element. Without character—honesty, sincerity of intent and integrity the other two components of the leader’s personality, those of vision and will, howsoever strong are reduced to insignificance. In fact, a leader in any system with inadequate vision and inadequate will, may not be very effective in his or her role, but leadership with inadequate values is bound to end up as highly counter-productive.

The little book “Living with Leadership”, although primarily addressed to the young aspirants in the profession of arms, is by the nature of its contents, suitable reading for all roles in all social systems and situations.

The book has been designed to focus, in particular, on the values-and-attitudes dimension of all types of leadership and especially highlights the inter-personal aspect of these roles in day-to-day interaction between people occupying different positions in social structures.

– Prof. Saeed Rashid Alig

Author Biography

Professor Saeed Rashid spent most of his youth and life in Jhelum. His services at the Military College Jhelum will always be recognized. Curriculum development, teacher education, Pakistaniness and creativity were his aim. He was also a teacher and historian whose dozens of books are still popular today. Pakistaniness and character building were ingrained in him and he wanted big and positive changes in the outdated curriculum of education. According to him, the primary purpose of the curriculum is character building, moral building and expression of creativity. If these things are not included in the curriculum then the curriculum becomes dead which has a negative effect on the nation while Pakistanis are still in the process of becoming a nation.

As long as the readers of history and literature remain, the name of Professor Saeed Rashid will resonate especially in Jhelum and Pakistan in general but also all over the world. Saeed Rashid was born on January 20, 1927. Primary education He studied at Islamia Inter College, Bareilly from Kotwali to FA. The college came into existence due to the educational movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. During his youth, Tehreek-e-Pakistan was in full swing in Bareilly. He also listened to the speeches of Ataullah Shah Bukhari and Zafar Ali Khan in 1942 and finally had the opportunity to listen to the heartwarming speeches of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After completing his Masters in Urdu in 1949, he joined the Teacher Training College at Aligarh Muslim University. Here he had the opportunity to benefit from teachers like Dr. Zakir Hussain, Dr. Hadi Hassan, Dr. Khawaja Ghulam Al-Sayedin, Prof. Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui and Prof. Habib-ur-Rehman.

He was greatly influenced by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s movement and Tehreek-e-Pakistan. On June 11, 1950, he set foot on Pakistani soil and on June 21, he gave an interview at Military College Jhelum and on June 22, he joined the institute. 1990 I retired from Military College, Jhelum and then remained principal of Army Public School Jhelum and Mangla Cantt for the next four years. He was the director of Islamabad Taamir Millat Institute of Education Research. He was also the Director of Construction and Pakistaniness at Sultana Foundation, Islamabad. On June 19, 1999, after a long illness in Rawalpindi, he left his immortal impressions and memorable writings in this mortal world and left for good. Several of his books were published from Book Corner Jhelum.