 Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 27 and we are going to talk about making the mindful leaders. And when we talk about making the mindful leaders, we are concerned with cultivating skills for facing adaptive challenges. By the word adaptive, we mean to say that every circumstance, every situation is different from others and we have to make our self feasible and comfortable with the new situation with the upcoming challenges. Whenever we talk about such models, this equation always echoes in my mind and it says that if you know others and you know yourself, you will not be imprailed in a hundred battles. If you know yourself but do not know others, you may lose one and you may win one and if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imprailed in every single battle. This quotation is given by Sun Tzu in his famous book Art of War and the emphasis is on the point of knowing. Knowing is very important unless and until we are not aware about ourselves and our circumstances, we would not be able to make good and better decisions. So a mindful leader is always there to think about the circumstances, the situations he or she is exposed to and then make rightful decisions. So the basic idea of mindful leader basically circulates around number one, change orientation. The second important thing is when we talk about mindful leaders is environmental uncertainty. There are many kinds of risks in the environment, there are many kinds of uncertainties in the environment. So know all the variables, conditions, constraints in that environment and guide your followers and train them to cope with those uncertainties. For a mindful leader, it will be necessary to know and understand those uncertainties. The third thing is that they can pick adaptive challenges. There are certain aspects related to the leadership and those leadership challenges are basically of two types, they can be related to the technical problems or technical problems are basically associated with known problems and known solutions. For example, if a machine breaks down, then there are certain SOPs which they have to follow and they can fix the machine. The adaptive problems they are always unique and in that case the problems and solutions may not be known. When problems and solutions are not known, then according to that the leader will have to update himself, upgrade himself and in that update and upgrade, in every new environment, in every new circumstances, in new challenges, he has to face it. Therefore, the leader must learn number one, that he should operate as a partner with his followers because we have already talked about the leadership concern in which we said that the leader is someone who is from within, who is from within, who is from within, who understands how our situation and situations are and how we have to operate in them. So the leader must learn that he or she has to act like a partner for the solutions with the followers. The number two, the leader must be adaptive, flexible, change-oriented, moldable in every kind of situation and situation. Then the leader must engage him or herself to resolve the challenges. He should face the challenges, he should understand the problems, what are the causes and effects of the problems, so that he can understand them so that he can materialize his decision accordingly. The third thing is that in all these actions, the leader needs to remain calm and in control because if he becomes a victim of anxiety, then obviously in that case his decision making will not be effective and he will not be able to guide his followers properly. Another important thing which we have to bear in mind to the leader and that is that at the same time he is guiding other people, he has to inspire and motivate other people and with inspiration, with that motivation, he or she would be there so that the followers can understand his credibility by looking at him from the perspective of the leader. Last but not the least point which the leader has to understand in this mindfulness and that is make wise and thoughtful action. There is reason and logic behind every action, there is rationality behind every action and that rationality is there for the solution of the problem and it is guiding and training and developing its followers. If we conclude all this, then dear students remember that a leader has to have a lot of mindfulness and in that mindfulness he has to motivate, inspire, guide and train people and understand all the situations which are found in his own mind. Thank you.