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Robert Morris Univeristy
Individual Research Paper - “Leader Effectiveness”
M.S. DHONI
Yousuf Abrar Siddiqui9/10/2012
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 YearPlayed
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
8Suresh Raina (Limited Overs)
May-June 2010 4 1 3 0 0 25
9Gautam Gambhir (Limited Overs)
November-December 2010
5 5 0 0 0 100
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The above stats show that the modern day Cricket Captains of Team India.
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
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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 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.
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Bibliography:
1. Introduction of the leader was partially collected from the from various
sources available on the internet.
2. Cricket journals available over the internet
3. A History of Indian Cricket by Mihir Bose.
4. Website. Cricinfo.com
5. Website. www.mahendra-singh-dhoni.com6. Image by http://4.bp.blogspot.com
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