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THE RISE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP: A PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 01

  There are three broad leadership styles recognized in organizational change and leadership development circles. These may be: Tactical leaders  focus on solving straightforward problems with operations-oriented expertise. Strategic leaders  are very future-focused with an ability to maintain a specific vision while forecasting industry and market trends. Transformational leaders  focus less on making decisions or establishing strategic plans, and more on facilitating organizational collaboration that can help drive a vision forward. Transformational leadership is a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams or followers beyond their immediate self-interests in identifying the change needed, creating a vision to guide the change through influence & inspiration, and executing the change in tandem with committed members of a group. This elevation in self-interest elevates the follower's levels of maturity and ideals, as well as their concern for the achievement

PERSONALITY TRANSFORMATIONS: MYTHS ON ALTERING PERSONALITY TYPES

  We tend to think that we are who we are and there is not much we can do about that. But the fact is, we choose our personality and who we are. Our personality is shaped by the choices we make over time. One of the most frequent questions in personal development probably is “Can I change my personality type?” According to most personality type theories, the person’s type is inborn and does not change . However, people can develop traits and habits that differ or even directly contradict the description of their type.   An example may help us understand better. Suppose lights in the room suddenly go off and we are in complete darkness. We may be able to navigate our way to the door, but which of our senses will come into play? Touch? Hearing? Smell? It would be anything but vision, our preferred sense. As soon as the lights come back on, we will switch back to using vision again as it makes it much easier to navigate around the room. The way our personality works is quite ident