India, Sept. 20 -- I have worked as a civil servant under Narendra Modiji for two decades in various positions at Union and State Government level. But my closest working experience with him came when I directly worked in his office as Principal Secretary to the CM in Gujarat for two years - 2004 to 2006. While everyone knows about his vast visioning ability and ability to look into the future, what is little known is his art of implementation and his ability to get work done by a large team of ministers and bureaucrats. As a student of management, I have observed this closely. I found that without formal study of management he has intuitively used some of the best principles of management in his leadership.

Foremost is his ability to id...