Evaluation of Tarique Rahman as Leader 1: His Best Strength

Every people have strength and weakness in his charachter. The more we know our strength and weakness, the  better it is for us.  This is more relevant for leaders.  So  I would like to  discuss  strength and weakness of Tarique Rahman  as leader  so that   people surrounding him can  help him  better.  If  he himself come across this evaluation , he can  know huimself. "Know thyself"- is very important. if we don't know ourselves, it is difficult to know other people, understand other people, control other people and lead other people.

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself"- Thomas J. Watson, president of International Bussiness Machines(IBM).

 If we want to look one's day to day life, the most important thing to look is how he can utilize his  time, how much control he has on himself  become evident   from his time management skill.   When he wake up, he goes to sleep and can he join programs on time, etc reveals his  control over himself and understanding of importance of time, most scarce and limited resource which  none can expand for himself from 24 hours, can't borrow from others however wealthy he may be. If some one  can  join programs on time,  live daily life according to a routine, it reveals his  "self discipline"- important criteria  for leader as said  by  leadership expert John C. Maxwell in his book " Developing the leader within you".

 Now look at Tarique Rahman .  How  much importance he gives to time,  how much control he has  on himself  and how much disciplined  he is ?  I  never meet Tarique Rahman personally.   So little information about his  day to day life.  But  if we know how to derive conclusion from  little  information, then i have one example in front of me  and that's enough to know answer of the above three questions.  Here is that little information. 

চ্যানেল আইয়ের সাংবাদিক সালেহ বিপ্লবের ভাষায়,

"“রাজনীতির দলীয় বিতর্কে যাব না। কিন্ত বুকে হাত দিয়ে বলতে পারি, বাংলাদেশের রাজনীতিতে নতুন এক অধ্যায়ের জন্ম দিয়েছেন তারেক রহমান। কোনো অনুষ্ঠানে দেরি করে যাওয়ার নজির তার নেই। শুধু নিজের সময়ানুবর্তিতাই নয়, নেতাকর্মীদেরও সেভাবে পরিচালনা করেছেন তিনি। বিএনপির ইউনিয়ন প্রতিনিধি সভা কোনটি কতক্ষণ হবে, কতজন বলবেন- সব ছিল পূর্বনির্ধারিত। অনুষ্ঠানের শুরু থেকে খাওয়া-দাওয়া, থাকার জায়গা, ঢাকায় ফেরার সময়ঃ সব কিছু ছিল ঘড়ি-ধরা নিয়মে। ইউনিয়ন প্রতিনিধি সম্মেলন উপলক্ষে তারেক রহমানের সঙ্গে প্রায় নয় হাজার কিলোমিটার ভ্রমণ করেছি। এতগুলো দিনে, এতটা পথে কখনোই তাকে দেরি করতে দেখিনি। এটি তাঁর ক্যারিশমার একটি দিক।"

If self discipline of some one is not that much high, doesn't give so much importance to time, none can  show such   discipline  in long journey of 9,000 kilometers.  None can  become such disciplined  by one day, all on a sudden. 

 So self discipline is the best strength of Tarique Rahman. I am saying  this is the best strength because , based on this  strength he can    strengthen his other strength and   improve in areas where he is weak. Gradually  I will discuss his other strength and weakness Inshallh.  

 May Allah give me time  and help Tarique Rahman to foil all conspiracy against him. If he were a weak leader, none would care about him and  talk about him and try to destroy him.