Leadership Leadership is the ability to influence a group towards achievement of goals.

What traits she has which makes her best leader will be explained in this write up. It is the one who can lead himself or herself first. You are a leader of your own and you are first a follower of your own. There are two types of leadership transactive and transformative. Transactive is give and take. Transformative kind is missionary, give, give and give. It empowers people while former uses. Kiran has transformative leadership. Throughout much of her career, Kiran Bedi has done nothing but get more service and productivity out of the staff that were assigned to her. From changing the traffic situation in Goa with mere 25 cops to getting the respect of outsider unfriendly states of Mijorams a police commissioner, her ability to Marshall her resources shines through. Whats amazing is that it often took just this one person, and may be a few others to cause massive changes in the police system and operations. Another aspect of undaunted leadership is that kiran bedi often found huge opposition from politicians and other who did not like her making changes to the system- and she manages to accept these realities and still carry on her work at the same time. She has given credit to all those who did their jobs well. This makes group motivated. This also shows her leadership quality & she can lead a group whether it is police department or country. Kiran Bedi did not fear anybody. For her law is same for all, be it the President of India or any commoner. It is said that she once towed the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi car for parking violations that was on tour of United States. She says corruption starts from upper level. So we need to root out rather than lower level. A leader should have self confidence, a vision, ability to articulate Strong conviction about the vision, Behavior, i.e. out of the ordinary, Perceived as being a change agent, Environment sensitivity. All these characteristic she has, as explained above.