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  Leadership is induction & deduction; principle & discipline, methodology & practice.

Leadership is about vision and directions that steer the organization in the right direction; leadership is also about alignment and integration interconnected with hidden clues to solve problems effectively. There’s the very reason why leadership is ineffective because many times you don't understand the people you are leading and what they are in need of to be successful. 

You tend (not intentionally) to lead in a one-size-fits-all format, but the digital world is diversified, divergent and dynamic, so how to improve leadership effectiveness and maturity?

Personalized leadership competency, styles and practices: Every leader is unique; thus, their leadership influence would be also different. Authenticity is the foundation to be a great leader-who needs to set up their undue vision – why do they want to lead and how to make a difference. It seems that more people today are willing to be leaders for the ability to influence through their vision and competency. Their influence instills action to serve the vision that is perceived as leadership for the right causes.

So many organizations wait until the people are put into "leadership" positions to be introduced to the elements of leadership. These organizations set themselves up for failure by following this mindset. It's a strategic imperative to proactively develop new capabilities for leadership development. Personalized leadership or self-leadership are great practices. Self-leadership means leaders are willing to look at their own mentalities, attitudes, actions as hard as they look at others. Self-initiated experiences had a more meaningful benefit to leaders. The strong leadership comes through what you learn, endure and go through, and how you use that to cultivate a positive attitude and build a unique set of leadership competency.

Innovation leadership is a sort of intrapreneurship practice. Leadership is about the future; static leadership does not work well in the digital age. If vision is about the "end" status, then innovation is the means to the end.” “Vision" is a destination and 'innovation' is the better process, tools, cultures, etc., to get you there. The purpose and effectiveness of innovation depend on the leadership attitude to drive innovation and its aptitude to manage innovation. Developing that kind of leadership is essential to being successful in innovation management in today's business climate.

Leadership innovation is a prototype practice, organizations need to keep experimenting, and exploring with clear goals and continuous practices. In fact, innovation management has a very low success rate. Bridging innovation execution gap requires a systematic execution scenario with clear stages. Innovation leaders encourage employees to pursue innovation and demonstrate their intellectual capabilities to bring positive outcomes; to get clear and focused on innovative ideas, business models, processes or solutions, and to then enact, embody and execute in a disciplined way; the presence of transformational leadership, high organizational justice (trust); a participatory management style and multi-channel organizational communications.

Interdisciplinary leadership is the trend:

Becoming a cross-boundary leader means you need to have vision to bridge the difference; interdisciplinary knowledge to understand problems holistically; differentiated competency to solve issues innovatively. make impressive performance via influencing a high performance culture; and catalyze innovation to a more specific level of tactical tasks of divisions and the individual’s work goals,

Leadership is induction & deduction; principle & discipline, methodology & practice. Interdisciplinary and Inferential leadership logic helps to clarify vision and streamline actions. In some cases, organizational culture is so powerful and even then will be able to influence the surrounding societies of the organization. That is a result of information based business transformation to a society that is less conscious of diversity and more conscious of inclusion.

As change is often an uncomfortable, yet necessary part of reaching the future and sustaining success. The intention of becoming a leader is to inspire, innovate, improve, influence, interact, interpret, exemplify, orchestrate collective human progress, and leadership is a thorny journey of professional maturity, with continuous deliveries to deepen leadership influence.

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