India, Oct. 20 -- The theme of the recently held 56th National Convention of the All India Association of Catholic Schools (AINACS) was "Compassion and Vision-Driven Leadership." A leadership model rooted in vision and imbued with compassion is the need of the hour-not only for Catholic schools, but also across all spheres of society, including politics, religion, professions, technology, business, civil society, and more. If the world today is chaotic, marked by war, conflict, violence, division, hatred, and revenge, the root cause is the absence of leaders with genuine vision and compassion.

What we increasingly witness across many nations is leaders who are ambitious, self-centred, and autocratic, vying to control, dominate, and subju...