Leadership and Innovation-A Best Practice

Leadership can be termed as a relationship that involves mobilizing, influencing, and guiding team members toward the desired goals. The Modern Leader is a “democratic and innovative organizer” who walks with the team, rather than ahead of the team. Innovative Leaders are creative thinkers who are able to generate creative ideas that become the basis of innovation. The role of the Innovation Leader is very difficult as the path forward is never clear. These leaders must keep a team motivated and moving forward despite a seemingly constant set of obstacles and failures. The aim of this paper is to provide a base for organizations that are making the transition to dynamic-innovation, the need for the hour. The paper is built upon qualitative analysis of current situation prevailing in modern organizations in context to human resource and organizational behavioural issues to strive for innovation in leadership practices. The paper will provide recommendations for the organizations to successfully transition to a more innovative focus, the manner in which organizations must implement talent management and organizational processes to attract, develop, and empower Innovation leader.