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Paying Homage To The Brave Souls

Today is the day when I was able to start to digest the hayhem that had happened in mumbai for the last 3 days. The audacity with which the attackers entered india and the macabre way in which they mauled Mumbai, the financial capital of India was infuriating. But not for the brave soldiers  - Inspector General of Police Hemant Karkare, Deputy Inspector General Ashok Kamte, Sub Inspector Prakash More, Sub Inspector Dudgude, Police Inspector Vijay Salascar, Police Inspector Shushant Shinde, Assistant Sub Inspector Nanasaheb Bhonsle, Assistant Sub Inspector Ombele, Constables- Vijay Khandekar, Jaywant Patil, Yogesh Patil, Ambados Pawar and from the National Security Guards Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and at this time unknown number of commandos. 

They were the epitome of leadership and did all the things we in the corporate world talk about but struggle to do - some of the thoughts which come to mind are : Walk the talk ( it would have been very easy for them to walk away from what was happening or in some cases, send juniors into the combat zone), Bite The Bullet ( show accountability and responsibility as custodians of law and order) and act out the statement -"when the going gets tough, the tough get going". It was not suprising to note that our politicians were missing (life preservation), apart from the advani's and the modi's who were visiting more for the vote gathering than anything else.

Hope we can take the lessons of leadership and management from watching the events unfold the last few days.

All the best and god bless those brave souls. 
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