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    1) The author discusses their experience as a transformative leader in the foreign service, where they used their creative and intellectual abilities to improve their organization. 2) Specifically, the author recalls a time in 2017-18 when they were tasked with implementing policies around constructing new embassy buildings abroad in a new department. They were worried about meeting budget and targets with no prior experience. 3) The author discussed options with their team, who advised against high rental costs in city centers. The author agreed and suggested looking outside city centers where costs were lower, and following best practices by hiring local construction experts to ensure projects were completed on budget, on time, and sustainably.

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    1) The author discusses their experience as a transformative leader in the foreign service, where they used their creative and intellectual abilities to improve their organization. 2) Specifically, the author recalls a time in 2017-18 when they were tasked with implementing policies around constructing new embassy buildings abroad in a new department. They were worried about meeting budget and targets with no prior experience. 3) The author discussed options with their team, who advised against high rental costs in city centers. The author agreed and suggested looking outside city centers where costs were lower, and following best practices by hiring local construction experts to ensure projects were completed on budget, on time, and sustainably.

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    1) The author discusses their experience as a transformative leader in the foreign service, where they used their creative and intellectual abilities to improve their organization. 2) Specifically, the author recalls a time in 2017-18 when they were tasked with implementing policies around constructing new embassy buildings abroad in a new department. They were worried about meeting budget and targets with no prior experience. 3) The author discussed options with their team, who advised against high rental costs in city centers. The author agreed and suggested looking outside city centers where costs were lower, and following best practices by hiring local construction experts to ensure projects were completed on budget, on time, and sustainably.

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    1) The author discusses their experience as a transformative leader in the foreign service, where they used their creative and intellectual abilities to improve their organization. 2) Specifically, the author recalls a time in 2017-18 when they were tasked with implementing policies around constructing new embassy buildings abroad in a new department. They were worried about meeting budget and targets with no prior experience. 3) The author discussed options with their team, who advised against high rental costs in city centers. The author agreed and suggested looking outside city centers where costs were lower, and following best practices by hiring local construction experts to ensure projects were completed on budget, on time, and sustainably.

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    3) Transformative Leader Scholarship

    The most important piece of transformative leadership given by me to the


    organization has been to use my creative and intellectual abilities for the betterment
    of the organisation. I have been a career foreign service officer for almost 14 years
    and I often discuss work situations with my advisor/mentor. I do not need to get basic
    tips from my mentor on how the job must be done and how I must perform to the
    best of my abilities in order to make a name and reputation for myself in the
    organization.
    2. I remember vividly in 2017-18 when I was serving in the projects division of the
    Ministry. I was tasked with implementing the policies of the Ministry in the
    construction of new buildings/properties abroad, including Embassies and other
    diplomatic premises abroad. I had just joined the new department and was settling
    into my new role and was quite worried about how to achieve the organizational
    budgetary and other targets with no prior experience in this domain. The department
    of projects had a huge budget outlay due to the nature of the job involved and had
    the task of renting properties abroad temporarily till the government was able to
    complete the premises in the country. We are all aware that rents in the market are
    very high especially in the western countries and diplomatic premises are hired
    mostly in the central business areas of the city where the rates are very high.
    3. I discussed the nature of the problem with my team and the feedback I got
    was that, that rental values should be avoided unless there are very exceptional
    circumstances necessitating the same. Rental properties in western countries can be
    taken a bit far away from the city centre where the rental values are not so high, we
    all know that the budget of developed countries and a developing country like India
    stand poles apart. I also told my team that we should follow the best practices seen
    in various parts of the world in the real estate/construction sector and the same
    should be replicated when we build our premises in a particular country, help should
    be taken from the local construction industry experts and architects should be hired
    that know the rules/regulations of the host country. The team followed my advice
    very wisely and I somehow followed my intellectual capabilities of being a team
    leader and a good strategist by spending the budget given to his department very
    wisely, avoiding cost overruns and following the best practices used in the country
    where the project was being run by hiring experts in the area resulting in completion
    of the projects on time and building new assets with sustainability.

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