I am writing this after just having listened to Sundar Pichai’s speech at AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam.
And it made me think how leaders speak.
Their words are measured.
They talk about the things they are doing.
They bring their team along.
They do what they do the best and are not about becoming the best at everything else (like Sundar does not care on speaking by memorising).
And, they inject a little bit of humour too here and there.
Even though all of this is practised, someone who does not believe in these things could not ever execute them so well.
It reminds me of the Wankhede WC trophy celebration, when the Indian Mens Cricket Team had returned from Barbados after winning the T20 Word Cup 2024. There was a clip that went viral on the internet of the entire team singing “Maa Tujhe Salaam”, where Virat and Hardik were at the front. Someone from the audience threw their t-shirt at Hardik, and the other players behind him started laughing off at that gesture. But Virat, Virat Decent Kohli did not even happen to notice it. Or perhaps did not find it worth laughing off. If that is not leadership, I don’t know what is. Not to forget, he was not the “official leader” anyway.
Leadership is a choice you make, and the choice that eventually becomes a part of you instead of being just a loose creature.
