Innovativeleadership

Leadership comes in all ages, forms, styles, and becomes more inclusive, innovative and interdisciplinary.

Contemporary businesses have to make many tough choices in its growth-maturity business journey, either making decisions in strategic planning, talent management or innovation exploration. 

Innovative leaders will add a new dimension of vision in making the right choice for balancing the business’s short-term gain and long-term value proposition. Highly effective leadership personality/skills testing covers vision, critical thinking, communications, creativity, for problem-solving and innovation.

Creating vision & strategy: A great leader provides the vision to achieve the results that all would want to go if you could define the challenges; craft a good strategy that sets the right priorities to achieve expected business results. A good leader asks the questions anyone would want to ask, if only you had his/her vision or perspective. A truly great leader would ask “What if we do things in a new way” or ``How can I make things better for the whole”; not only ask a deep “WHY” to diagnose the root cause of problems, but also ask the constructive “Why NOT?" -The refusal to be bound by constraints and limitations and pursuit of possibilities. It is imperative that leadership effectiveness, trust-building and cognizance can be improved by breaking down conventional wisdom to reach leadership profundity.

A leader needs to have a passion for keeping learning and for what he/she is doing. The one with insight sees what everyone would want to see, if only you had his/her eyes. Leadership is about focus. A business leader should be allowed and encouraged to excel by deepening their understanding of people or organizations and solving problems thoroughly. Good leaders need to be able to prioritize their work and manage their time more effectively, laser focus on the critical things which really matter to achieve strategic goals. The result can be brilliant corporate achievements.

Streamlining business alignment: Businesses today become much nonlinear, interconnected and interdependent than ever, leadership is about providing direction, both for oneself and others. It is also about alignment and integration, and having high abilities to understand and handle issues from different angles, encourage collaboration and healthy competition. However, much of what passes for leadership today is either 'survival managing' or "status quo." Status quo often refers to the practice “command and control” style of management. Survival management is when an organization's leaders say they want leadership at all levels, but what they really want and expect is performance management and production on their terms.

Strategic alignment and synchronization can catalyze the flow of the right information to the right people at the right time to coordinate and execute strategy, tactics, and risks. Collaboration based learning needs patience and strategic support from management. So if you have a competitive team that is doing exceptional work, it would behoove the company to maintain the balance of that group for as long as possible, revitalize the workforce to make seamless alignment and co-solve problems smoothly.

Enhancing management activities: Leadership and management are activities performed by people. It is rare that any of us are pure leaders or managers, A leader creates value & quality; a manager maintains, facilitates, and monitors. Leaders invite debate and challenges from employees for innovative ideas. At the very core, great managers, and great leaders are both critical to every organization and we should respect both leaders and managers. Good leaders also need good managerial skills such as organizing their leadership team, measurement, follow-up results.

Although the line between the hard and the soft skills is blurring. The practical reality of today's business world is that business leaders need to have interpersonal skills, business acumen, and the ability to motivate and communicate effectively; technical manageability skills such as business domain knowledge, project management experiences, and organizational restructuring skills to fine tune business management discipline and achieve operational excellence. Gaining new skills should be inspired and driven by individuals recognizing that it adds value to them, their organization to accelerate performance and unlock business potential.

Optimizing shared culture & values: Culture is the foundation to build differentiated business competencies. The highest-rated business competencies could be fragile if the organization lacks the culture to rate and retain the value system beyond the business results. Whereas the cultural aspect is an intrinsic factor that drives the organization's business longevity. An organization with an excellent culture is arguably capable of giving great results in their competencies. In high-integrity cultures, every person has the opportunity to exhibit cultural taste by upholding the company core values and missions and making a positive influence on the surroundings.

Culture is certainly part of the environment in which an organization operates, it represents the box in which decisions are framed and the footprint the organization actions occur. Culture change is top down. It’s usually a slow evolution with gentle touch as sometimes you need to change the brief or conventional wisdom- removal of something old and familiar, and replaced with some advanced thinking, value, and perspective. “Command & control” is obviously not the right way to influence culture. Culture can only be changed if the leadership team advocates advanced thinking, sets good policies to encourage desired attitude and behaviors; coworkers, management, and leadership allow those mindsets, behaviors and actions to define the company.

Organizations are the hyper-connected and interdependent business entities that are connected to the ever expandable ecosystem as switches. Leadership comes in all ages, forms, styles, and becomes more inclusive, innovative and interdisciplinary. Leadership is about the respect and understanding of people - transforming a crowd into a workable collective. To put simply, leadership is to bridge, not to divide; leadership is to adapt, not too rigid; leadership is to move forward, not backward. Leadership is the right combination of elegant, interesting and challenging art, and objective, analytical, structural science.

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