Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Leadership of Change

Leadership is commonly divided into two types – transactional (maintaining the status quo) and transformational (changing it).

In today’s business world, Transformational Leadership is sometimes accorded higher status than Transactional Leadership. Change is valued for its own sake, and therefore managers who can stimulate, provoke and ride change are going to be the top dogs.

But do we want all our leaders to be Transformational?