Article / Topic: 7 Transformation of leadership

Written By: David Rooke & William R. Torbert  

April: 2005

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According to this article, the author highlights his 25 year experience as a psychologist about the transformation of leadership. He says that leaders keep different ideological behavior and strategies to spend the life. They are fully aware of how to handle the internal and external organizational challenges. Moreover, their personalities are mainly divided into seven categories according to action logic which reflect their capabilities and capacities that make them a role-model leader in their organization.

Having an understanding and quality to avail the opportunities that other people are not getting, an opportunist prove himself a best leader. Although it is difficult for seniors  to work with opportunist because an opportunist  harshly reject the feed back yet for younger executives they provide a full working environment having a lot of risk.

Contrary to the opportunist, the diplomat welcomed the feedback and behaves with senior in a diplomatic way so that a pleasant environment can be created. According to research, Owing to obeying all they work as a junior for a long period. 

Another type of leader is “Expert”; they are the 38 % of all professional. Experts always try to seek more knowledge, and to get uninterrupted progress effectively, efficiently as well as perfectly.

The achievers are well awarded of complex understanding of the world and supportive for juniors. Sometimes they have to face a lot of difficulty with interaction to experts’ but it is instructive rather destructive.

The individualists provide suitable and appropriate solution of challenges as well as the tried their level best to fulfill the gap between strategy and performance. They reject the irrelevant logics proposed by their colleagues and boss that’s why they often feel irritation.

The Strategist accounts for 4% of leader and they can resolve and handle any conflict easily. They are passionate to build strong personal and organizational relationships. They work beyond the expectation of company.  

The Alchemists are rare to find in any organization or somewhere else. They justify with their work to achieve the assigned goal at daily basis.

To conclude, just a few people can be a alchemists but if somebody has a desire to become a individualists and strategist he has to change his methodology of his routine life

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