Arun Sarin's keynote

The main impetus of the talk was leadership, especially in the context of IITians. Arun was of the opinion that most IITians are not realizing their full potential as leaders. Leadership is not merely the recognition that you are better than others and lead them to wherever you are supposed to go, but more importantly, it allows you to bring about fundamental change. Leadership allows you to achieve tangible results without fighting with the intricacies of team work which he described as "holding hands and singing songs".

Arun likes to think of three forms of leaderships but there is a catch - all three forms need to be practiced simultaneously. The three forms are:

• Strategic leadership
• Operational leadership
• People's leadership

http://abhishekrai.blogspot.com/2007/07/iit-2007-from-engineer-to-leader.html

http://abhishekrai.blogspot.com/2007/07/iit-2007-to-mba-or-not-to-mba.html

http://abhishekrai.blogspot.com/2007/05/promising-deltas.html