Given the emergent challenges of the modern day society -- such as more and more pretensions customers, the incremental competition or the growing pressures towards environmental stability -- organizations are presented with the necessity of continually evolving and adapting to new requirements. Transformational leadership can support this dynamic organizational life by sustaining and promoting both creativity as well as innovation (Sarros, Cooper and Santora, 2008; Williams). Transformational leadership is a

Leadership of Dick Smith Leadership has always been at the forefront of business studies; leaders are always (or should always be) concerned with how they can stimulate the best performance in the workforce in order to gain the best results and stability for their business. Among the various types of leadership, transformational leadership includes actions that are charismatic, visionary, and inspirational. These actions inspire followers to deliver not only their best,

Transformational Leader Transformational and charismatic leadership has increasingly been shown to be valuable for organisations, especially with respect to empowering employees. Generally, transformational and charismatic leaders inspire and motivate their followers to achieve their maximum potential. They work together with their followers to formulate and execute the organisation’s vision, strategy, goals, and objectives. Transformational and charismatic leaders achieve this by communicating effectively as well as eliciting positive emotions and citizenship behaviours

Motivation Through Leadership: Leadership of Herb KelleherHerb Kelleher was the co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines. Southwest began as an upstart airline that soon began to rival the big market players. One big reason for its success was the servant-transformational-charismatic leadership style of Kelleher, who was known for what seemed like an unconventional but common-sense commitment to employees and his ability to create a strong corporate culture that fostered

Leadership Styles In many ways the United States offer the ideal case study for examining different leadership styles, because its particular process of election and governance presents opportunities for each leadership style to flourish. In short, while the election itself favors a charismatic leadership style, the success of the executive branch depends on a transformational leadership style, and the interactions between the executive and the legislature can only be characterized as

Leadership, Team Building & Communication Leadership theories continue to evolve as the complexity, nature and scope of organizations shift from command-and-control structures to more agile frameworks for managing change. The pace of disruptive innovation is accelerating, forcing reliance on the latest theories of leadership to keep organizations competitive in rapidly changing markets. The intent of this analysis is to evaluate the traditional, contemporary and emerging leadership theories and interpersonal forms of