Leader Paper Presentation MS Dhoni - baixardoc

Robert Morris Univeristy

Individual Research Paper -

“Leader Effectiveness”

M.S. DHONI

Yousuf Abrar Siddiqui

9/10/2012

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Table of Contents

The Leader 3

Followers and the Situation 4

Contextual and Operational Leadership 4

Motivational Approach 5

Theories and Models 7

Social responsibility and Ethics 9

Lessons Learned 9

Bibliography 11

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The Leader:

M.S. Dhoni is a current captain of the Indian National Cricket Team and a winner

of Cricket World cup of 2011. He was born in Ranchi, Bihar (Now in Jharkhand State).

MS Dhoni is one of the most successful leaders of India. He has been the second

successful person to lead India next to Kapil dev. He is the captain of all the three

formats of cricket-Test, ODI (One Day International) and Twenty-twenty. He initially

excelled in badminton and football and was selected at district and club level in these

sports.

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Dhoni was a goalkeeper for his football team and was sent to play cricket for a

local cricket club by his football coach. He did not play cricket, he impressed with his

wicket-keeping skills and became the regular wicketkeeper at the Commando cricket

club (1995–1998). Based on his performance at club cricket, he was picked for the

1997/98 season Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 Championship and he performed well.

Dhoni focused on cricket after his high school.

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Many of India's top players including Tendulkar have crumbled under the

pressures of captaincy. With Dhoni, on the other hand, the additional responsibility has

made him come into his own as a player.

Followers and The Situation And Contextual and Operational

Leadership:

In this game the Captain is the backbones, who have to lead the team thru

various situations comprehending various tactics and techniques to win the game. M.S.

Dhoni who started his career as one of the Eleven players but, by his policies and

affection and commitment to the game he was awarded the role of a Captain. He had

the ability to guide and lead the team to a successful path by promoting new ideas and

new themes to the play.

The players in the team are united and each given an opportunity to prove

themselves. If one lags behind it’s the duty of a captain to backup him and counsel him

and train him to be perfect in the area where he excels.

When they were playing Cricket World Cup 2011, Dhoni had a lot of problems

with the team effort, being poor. He then managed skillfully the whole situation and

planned ahead of each game and put the responsibilities on each and everyone to play

the game well.

He planned the strategy and game plan to put the fielders and bowlers thru the

right areas and made the batsmen score runs, which proved him to be the one of the

wise captains of India cricket team.

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Motivational Approach:

Team India is led by M.S. Dhoni and is no doubt the entire team has thrown

weight behind him. The management lessons have a universal appeal of Dhoni, by

reflecting the structures and strategies of the game.

When India was about to lose the game in the super 8’s against Australia,

captain came to the rescue of the team and managed to overcome the Australian

domination of the game by scoring the runs in the proper area and help not to lose

wickets at regular intervals.

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He did not deflect the team’s poor performance blaming against any individual

player, but in spite of the huge pressure he overcame as a man in control. Many people

take a life time to understand and accept that life is filled with full of negative traits

such as joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, of all most important winning and losing of

the game but Dhoni learnt it at the very age of 29.

Dhoni also had a convinced idea of the senior players in the team and

their role and contribution to the team. He also learned from the seniors

experience and wisdom by drawing conclusions and build teamwork.

When India was playing a Semi final game match against Pakistan in a do or die

game, Pakistan was in a aggressive way scoring runs and smashing the Indian bowling

and fielding, but Dhoni reluctantly stopped his anger and overcame the depression and

had a strong determination that he could control the match going away from them by

regularly motivating the players on ground and took control of the game. He is never

excited no matter what the situation is going to be. This makes him an exceptional

leader, for controlling ones emotion under stress and thinking clearly under the crisis is

the mark of the excellent leaders.

He also gives feedback to the players without any malice. He also believes that a

leader should be frank in both positive and negative, and focus on the issues that the

player is facing than the person itself. In some cases of failure he revitalizes the player

to perform and do well with a better planning.

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Theories and Models:

There are many aspects when Dhoni came to the rescue of the team when it

was in the state of failure. The statistics show that he is one of the most successful

captains of India ever had.

He was picked up as the captain of India for the Inaugural ICC T20 World Cup

held in South Africa in the year 2007 and emerged as the winners in a thrilling victory

over the arch rivals Pakistan. Later on he was capped as Captain of the ODI team,

Simultaneously he was also honored as the Test Captain too.

It was under his captaincy that India had emerged to the No.1 spot in Test

Cricket. He then under his leadership won many overseas series against Australia,

South Africa which never had done before by any captain. It was also under his

leadership that India emerged as the World Cup Champions held in April 2011 where

they beat Sri Lanka

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Dhoni Statistics as a Captain with Other Captains:

Number Name Year Played Won Lost Tied No

result Win %

1 Sachin Tendulkar 1996-1999/2000 73 23 43 1 6 35

2 Ajay Jadeja 1997/8-1999/2000 13 8 5 0 0 62

3 Sourav Ganguly 1999-2005 146 76 65 0 5 54

4 Rahul Dravid 2000/1-2007 79 42 33 0 4 53

5 Anil Kumble 2001/2 1 1 0 0 0 100

6 Virender Sehwag 2005 5 3 2 0 0 60

7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2007-2011 101 58 35 1 7 56.41

8 Suresh Raina (Limited

Overs) May-June 2010 4 1 3 0 0 25

9 Gautam Gambhir (Limited

Overs)

November-December

2010 5 5 0 0 0 100

The above stats show that the modern day Cricket Captains of Team India.

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Social responsibility and /Ethics:

As a Captain he has a lot of social responsibilities against the team, and the

country who cheer for their efforts. He has a lot of patience in the situations when at

times India lost the games in some situations and backing up with the team effort

though they relentlessly worked for the win but they eventually couldn’t make up.

He works tirelessly towards making the team to come over the problems faced

during their previous matches and work out with the players along with the coach. He

focuses on each and every player towards their fitness and the area where they excel

and the areas where they lag behind.

He is truly an Ethic following Captain, who works in his boundary according to

the rules set by the International Cricket Council (I.C.C) and try to stop players from

being aggressive in their behavior in the field and make sure there are no verbal issues

with other team players. The ICC has set rules for a free and fair match conduct and

see that there are no racial issues are going on in the team or among the teams. Due

to racial discrimination by the Govt. in South Africa, the country was boycotted from

playing cricket for almost a decade.

Lessons Learned:

Mr. M.S. Dhoni is a trusted leader whom team India can rely on .He has the

strategy to make use of the resources available and bring out the new way to a lead a

successful path. To say a matter of fact he has the style and Charisma to lead the team

and has enormous self confidence in him along with self belief to lead the team.

He also makes sure that all the players are grounded well in comfort and is

always ready to lead the team especially in times of crisis. A leader like him always

believes to live in the present rather than thinking of the past which cannot be

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corrected by thinking of it. The most powerful quality he has is give feed back without

any hesitation whether it may be positive or negative. Also learned is that every match

which is played is to be started from the scratch and have game plans and execute

them when needed.

Many of the leaders feel proud about their past, but in his case he is very special

and looks for more and more and to live in the past than to look back or peep in to the

future. He is a leader who led the team by an example by marking a glorious victory of

the Cricket World cup 2011.