Innovations in creating better Leadership

Abstract

Where does the leadership ability come from? Why do some people exert more leadership than the others? Why some leaders are more effective than the others? Are some people born to be leaders? Or does every situation create its own leadership style? Or is leadership a matter of learned abilities and skills? Over the years, these questions have been answered differently. Purpose of this paper is to reveal some innovations a leader should possess according to some of the prominent theories. People have innovations in creating better leadership. The spiritual leaders like lord Buddha, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Dalai Lama, had the unique skills and enlightened people to get rid of sufferings. That is the achievement of spiritual leaders. In terms of political leadership, such leaders employ various types of innovations. They use all the strategies to win the public opinion in a country concerned and sometimes they tend to pass geographical boundaries of their own territories. However a particular attention has been given for group leaders in this study. In a private entity leadership positions recognized to be successful role models, are often used to support and motivate rest of the team members and colleagues to achieve corporate objectives. In order to prove the innovative skills which a leader should possess, this paper also examines those in the field of styles of leadership. In this section, the attributes of Authoritarian, Laissez-faire and Democratic will be further explained. Further, Kurt Lewin‟s Participative style also added. According to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report (2005) of United Nations, governance is expected to play a prominent role to achieve MDGs. Leaders forms new styles of governance, so making it dynamic phenomena, thus, making an indirect but profound impact on achieving any national development agenda. In the next section, leadership styles known as X and Y have been analyzed. Finally all these factors depend upon the Gender, and Cultural backgrounds. This paper also reveals the nature of the leaders in the cyberspace and critically questions whether there are leaders or leadership styles exist. The on line chatting groups are quite popular to be groups that exist without leadership. So what kind of innovativeness could be viewed in such models being emerged?