Leadership Transformation in Changing Times

Abstract

Leadership plays a crucial role in facilitating a smooth transition for an organization. By making strategic decisions and shaping these shifts, transformational leaders help their organizations maintain competitive edge. While the principles at the heart of leadership transformation are timeless and present, the ways in which they are manifested in practice can vary widely from one culture to the next. This paper makes an initial investigation into the ways in which Leadership Transformation manifests itself in Indian society. Only the year 2020 has so starkly illustrated the benefits and drawbacks of leadership, as well as the need for its further development, as never before. Due to our obsession with leaders, the constant stream of leadership theory and practice rarely delves into the essence of leadership, leaving us unable to find long-term solutions to the problem of poor leadership. Instead, we tend to cling to tired, outmoded paradigms like smelly comfort blankets on a journey to the land of fairy tales, in the hopes that they will provide us with the security and insight we need to face the real, and often terrifying, challenges we face today. However, in order to bring about transformation, leadership and management must be rethought and recast. We need leader who leads, motivates and manages the individuals, a group, organization or any country towards shared goals. A leader should always lead by example. And leadership is all about taking risks and challenges. The top most qualities of a leader are its vision, inspiration, critical and strategic thinking, its effective communication, open mindedness, flexibility, and its responsibility. Regardless of their own interests, leaders engage in leadership transformation when working with their teams or followers. Identification of the necessary change facilitates the development of a vision to direct the transformation through inspiration, influence, and motivation. Basically, it is the theory of change in the social ecosystem and individuals then transforming followers into leaders through so many mechanisms like influence, motivation, inspiration and morale support. A leader should be inspiring others, Challenging, taking ownership, working on their strengths and weaknesses and performance optimization. Qualities of Transformational Leader includes Able to encourage, Inspiring, Responsible, Supportive, Proactive, Genuine, Open minded, Adapting, helps others to communicate and participate, Listening skills, Adaptability, Authentic, Creative.