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Leadership Issues & Organizational Transformation

Leadership Issues and Organizational Transformation

There is little disagreement among current thinkers about the need for widespread organizational transformation. Some focus on the need for cost containment, others on the need for an improved entrepreneurial spirit. All emphasize the need for leaders who can take organizations through radical change successfully. Identifying those potentially successful leaders is not always easy, however.

In his current article about leadership, Daniel Goleman (1998) indicated that effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: they all have a high degree of emotional intelligence. He contended that emotional intelligence is the prerequisite for successful leadership. Without emotional intelligence, he indicated, a person can have all the knowledge and ideas in the world, but will not be able to lead effectively.

The intention in the following pages is to look at this aspect of leadership, trying to discover if self-awareness, self-regulation motivation, empathy, and social skills seem to be primary components of effective leadership in organizational transformation.

The Components of Emotional Intelligence

Goleman (1998) described the components of emotional intelligence, giving examples of each. He noted that his research at nearly 200 global companies turned up many examples of these emotionally intelligent leaders, and how they led their companies to great success. In describing the components of their successful leadership, Goleman showed how these aspects of emotional intelligence led to measurable business results and suggested ways that they could be learned by current leaders.

For example, self-regulation can lead to measurable business success because leaders are not inclined to act rashly, hastily, or impulsively, but are able to act appropriately and in a timely manner. Self-regulation can be taught to current leaders more easily than most aspects of emotiona...

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