Beyond the Fifth Dimension - How Skilled Leaders Develop & Train People to be Innovative, Creative Evolutionary Leaders

You have probably seen definitions for the three traditional dimensions of leadership styles, to wit:

1. Autocratic [bossy],
2. Democratic [participative] and
3. Delegative [free reign].

However there are other styles besides those three. These styles deal with the added dimensionality of leading, managing and working within a world which

• Experiences ever-increasing complexity in its relations, assumptions and perceptions
• Demands that everyone become more creative and innovative in their thinking
• Views the forces of evolution as being more preferable to the influence of revolution

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I believe these other styles are more congruent with the challenges of today's knowledge-based economy - that means those styles enable leaders to:

• Establish more pliable and flexible networks
• Manage the intensely dynamic nature of today's relationships and technologies
• Strengthen the connectedness and competence of various alliances, joint ventures and partnerships.

In a word, these other styles expand the dimensions of the leader's mission to:

- Assemble disparate knowledge assets into newer, more appropriate and sensible configurations,
- Connect diverse resource pools with human capital components [that is, social, intellectual, production and developmental capital];
- Empower organized efforts to process, digest and master the forces of ever-changing scenarios.

Have you learned how to lead a creative, innovative, evolutionary organization yet? Transform yourself into an innovative leader today!