Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25/12/1924 – 16/08/18): 10 Management Lessons

25 Dec, 2019 Divesh Mishra

Let’s learn Ten Management Lessons from the extraordinary life of Late Mr. Vajpayee:

  1. Determination: He was sworn PM 3 times. For 13 days, for 13 months and only on the third time he completed his tenor of five years.
  2. Fighter: From 2 Lok Sabha seats to 282 in the current Lok Sabha
  3. Organiser: He set up the largest political party of the world from a much scoffed, restricted Jan Sangh
  4. Consensus and not Confrontation as a policy
  5. Communication is the key. One has to be good in all: Speaking, Writing and Reading.
  6. If your Mission is for good, you will get support from everyone
  7. If you want to achieve glory, stay grounded
  8. Keep Calm when the going is tough. Kargil War was won by this calmness
  9. If you think you are right, go ahead and do it without fearing consequences. He went ahead with the nuclear tests knowing well the consequences.
  10. People, People and People: Successful needs one to maintain good relations with all.