Gandhi and his leadership style Leadership is a large term which can be defined by : the ability of a person to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals. It can also be explained by the ability to gather and federate people around a collective action. To achieve this goal, this mission, there is a person who is in charge to motivate, gather and inspire the people so that they work together to achieve the vision : it is the leader (Definition by Kottler). To define a leader is quite hard but a person can be a perfect example to show how gather people toward the achievement of a common goal : it is Mahatma Gandhi. We can ask ourselves how Gandhi managed to gather people around him from all the world to achieve his goal and if it is possible to do the same in companies ?

First of all, we can say that leadership is efficient, if it has three main characteristics that are respected : the leader is recognized and accepted, he knows how to adapt to his group and he has a direct and indirect influence to the people who are following him. Let’s have a look to these three characteristics for Gandhi : Gandhi has always been accepted in South Africa, because of its status of lawyer, he managed to gather people behind him and behind his cause. He knows how to adapt also : his way to communicate changes between South Africa and India : he adapts to his “target”. The influence of Gandhi is quite obvious : at the beginning of its protest, no one even thought about protesting, maybe people were thinking about that but didn’t dare to say anything. At this time, you couldn’t protest that easy against authorities. The way Gandhi manage to introduce the protest was perfect : he created an event to have an impact : he took his followers to a march and make sure that everyone in the group is connected to the requirements. So Gandhi has really managed to gather people because he has the characteristics of a leader. Secondly, if we have a look at the