SECTION 3

Suzerainty and its Role in Good Teams

Chapter 8 Under What Conditions Can I be Called Up for Suzerainty?

Chapter 9 Who Ends Up Becoming the Suzerain?

Chapter 10 When Groups Search for Good Suzerains

Chapter 11 A Suzerain to a Group, What are My Prime Concerns?

Chapter 12 The Fundamental Ingredient for Success of Organizations

Having contemplated upon Yogyathwa—the trunk of our majestic leadership elephant—we now shift focus to the limbs on which the elephant stands. These can be considered as pillars on which one must build his leadership capacities. In this section we take on the fore limbs in a bid to understand the significance of the reader/student addressing ‘suzerainty needs’ and ‘team needs’.

We have already seen that a leader is not the same as a position suzerain. And of these two, it is leadership that is the focus of study in this book. Nonetheless, since position suzerainty (henceforth mentioned as suzerainty) is where leadership is of particular interest to organizations, suzerainty too needs to be understood in a very generic or fundamental way. Understanding this is vital for getting a complete view of leadership. In this section therefore we shall aim to study suzerainty in the context of groups and organizations and try and figure out the role of leadership in all of it … .