D. Murali

Chennai: Hungry, hone-able, and honourable. In these ‘three Hs’ Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward capture what constitute the ‘raw material’ for a leader.

“It is futile to proceed in leadership development without these cornerstones,” they declare in ‘Launching a Leadership Revolution’ (www.hachettebookgroupusa.com).

What is hunger? The discontent with the status quo, which in turn produces ‘the ambition or motivation to press forward and strive toward change.’

Hunger provides the energy to begin, the stamina to persist, and the will to finish an endeavour, the authors describe.

“It is the responsibility of the leader to keep him- or herself hungry on a regular basis… At any point in time when the leader is not hungry, the leader is not functioning as a leader.”