Organization Strategies & Innovative Leadership Management

Abstract

<p>For sustainable competitive advantages companies need innovation. However, for very few organizations innovation is a part of their DNA and for the most of companies it is a crisis element of “Constructive Destruction.” However, the recent economic crisis and evolution of business organization demand for innovative leaders who can do the miracle (innovation) in the organization. Like any new phenomenon, innovative leadership idea is blurry among different people and also experts are divided in their opinion. This paper tries to solve these puzzles by integrating the thought in a clear understandable picture. To solve the puzzle this paper first stated about creativity, innovations and leadership to better understand about innovative leadership process. Then it discussed in detail about the innovative leadership process followed by two examples of best practice and worst practice.</p>Innovative leadership is the combination of four elements: emotional intelligence, management innovations, innovative organization and interaction with stakeholders. These are interrelated part that enforce each other to foster innovations. Emotional intelligence make the leader effective in performance because he can build trust and make people committed towards the goal; it becomes easy for him to do management innovations, develop innovative culture and interact with the stakeholders. Management innovations set the goal, principles and policy to guide the innovations and innovative culture foster to do the miracle by the employees. When inside is ready for the innovations the innovative leader interacts with the stakeholders for ideas and feedback. However, the innovative leader needs to apply sense when to be innovative and when not to be.

Kepemimpinan Inovatif Kepala Daerah Dalam Implementasi Inovasi Smart Kampung

“…(A. Rahman. M., 2016) menambahkan, kepemimpinan inovatif adalah proses pembinaan inovasi melalui pengembangan budaya ramah inovasi dan menetapkan arah strategis yang membimbing dan membangun kepercayaan di antara bawahan untuk berinovasi.…”

“…Penghargaan tersebut sebagai wujud kepemimpinan inovatif dari kepala daearah banyuwangi karena program inovasi Smart Kampung merupakan satu-satunya program di Indonesia. Hal ini dijelaskan oleh Rahman (2016) bahwa pendekatan Inovatif untuk Kepemimpinan Ini berarti membawa pemikiran baru dan tindakan berbeda pada cara memimpin, mengelola, dan menjalankan pekerjaan. Bagaimana seorang pemimpin dapat berpikir secara berbeda tentang peran pemimpin dan tantangan yang dihadapi seorang pemimpin dan organisasi yang dipimpin.…”

Leadership Creative Village

“…The award is an expression of the innovative leadership of Cianjur's chief executive because the Smart Kampung innovation program is the only one in Indonesia. It is explained by Rahman (2016) that the Innovative Approach to Leadership means bringing new thinking and different actions to the way to lead, manage, and run the job. How a leader can think differently about the leadership role and the challenges facing a leader and an organization head What leaders can do to solve rooted and hard-to-solve problems and how leaders can be agile and fast without information or predictability Leadership for Innovation Leaders must learn how to create an organizational climate in which others apply innovative thinking to solve problems and develop new products and services.…”

Innovation leadership for sustainable organizational climate in institution of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Malaysia

“…Based on the studies, researchers found that the appropriate leadership style to create the innovative and sustainable organizations are democratic leadership (Razak, Jaafar, Hamidon, & Zakaria, 2014;(Martin, 2019);, participative leadership (Somech, 2006;Zhou & Wu, 2018);, authentic leadership (Avolio & Gardner, 2005) (Avolio & Gardner, 2005;Azanza, Moriano, & Molero, 2013;Elrehail et al, 2018;Jones & Crompton, 2009;Schuckert, Kim, Paek, & Lee, 2018;Woolley et al, 2011);, transformational leadership (Alsolami et al, 2016;Babić, Savović, & Domanović, 2014; García-Morales, Jiménez-Barrionuevo, & Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, 2012; Para-González, Jiménez-Jiménez, & Martínez-Lorente, 2018; Sarros, Cooper, & Santora, 2008;Sheard, Kakabadse, & Kakabadse, 2016);, entreprenuerial leadership (Bagheri & Pihie, 2012;Bhattacharyya, 2006;Jones & Crompton, 2009;Kuratko, 2007;Richter , Jackson, & Schildhauer, 2018;Roomi & Harrison, 2011);, innovative leadership (Irdayanti & Ramlee, 2015;Feng, Huang, & Zhang, 2016;Marron, 2014;Rahman, 2016;Watt, 2002);, strategic leadership (Mua'azam et al, 2016;Schoemaker, Heaton, & Teece, 2018;Zuraik, 2017). Table 1 shows the leadership styles that related to the innovative organizations.…”