Leadership Effectiveness Summary

Summary of the article

The article titled ‘Characteristics of Leadership Effectiveness: Implementing Change and Driving Innovation in Organizations’ has been written by 03 authors and its main focus is on two main components.

1. Change and Innovation

2. Leadership Skills and Abilities

To remain competitive in the globalized world, it is compulsory to support and implement continuous and transformational change. Even though it has been a must to do so, there have been more failures in doing so than successes basically due to organization’s inability to remain flexible and adaptive to dynamic business world. This article has identified why such failure occurs. It has noted that though, theories, models and approaches are established, still

These strengths are related to leadership and change management. Some of them have been identified below.

1. Employees in all organizational holds undesirable perception of their leader’s ability to effective implementation of changes and innovation. The article has suggested communication to overcome individual resistance as being very effective most of the time. According to leadership skills & ability to communicate at the right time to the right people is one of the most important factor for leaders (Kanter, 2003).

2. It has emphasized that coaching, rewarding, communicating, motivating, involving others and building teamwork among others plays important role in change management and innovation (Bovey & Hede, 2001). It has stated that specific talents such as communication, motivation, participative strategies and coaching are the vital talents that are significant impact on a leader’s ability to drive charge and innovation of leaders (Katzenbach & Smith,

It has stated the problems and the purposes relating to leadership and change management. The change and innovation factor and the leadership skills and abilities have been detailed in the article. Hence together with these factors leadership skills and abilities and how to bring about the innovative changes can be applied to the organizations effectively (Lewin, Goodman, & Frandt, 2001).

Limitations of the article

Just like the strengths, the article has its own limitations relating to the subject matter of leadership and change management issues. Some of them have been identified below.

1. It has that one third or two third of major changes implemented in the organization are failures, although all these change management skills are being implemented. Hence they need to diversify other aspects as well (Daft, 2010).

2. Even though most of the change management skills are being mentioned in this article, it is lacking of how the change implementation techniques and capacity to modify management style to the specific situations.

3. Sampling methodology used was very much into the leadership and change issues that might lead the research to bias. It can be noted that research questions were not given in this article. As they have used unstructured interviews, it has to be noted that they will lead to raise questions their own ways rather than having a structured method (Ulrich,