Running Head: EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT
The Innovative Leader: Skills for Effective Management
Tiffany Anderson
Submitted to Dr. Liz Lentz-Hees
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
WED 398 Special Problems
Southern Illinois University
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
August 17, 2004
Abstract
It is understood that management, which is defined as the act, manner, or practice of managing, handling, supervision, or control directly affects almost every aspect of the workplace (American Heritage, 2000). An incompetent or careless manager can have a devastating impact on an organization. This incompetent manger can cause and perpetuate decreased employee performance, dissatisfied customers, and poor production. An effective manager will avoid such effects through circumspect consideration and implementation of innovative management strategies. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss such strategies and to provide a formula for exceptional leadership.
THE INNOVATIVE LEADER: SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT
Introduction
An innovative leader is an effective manager, and an effective manager is an innovative leader: an ingenious, inventive, and original leader, one who is not afraid to embrace new concepts or reconsider old practices. An innovative leader differs from other managers due to his or her extraordinary creativity, enthusiasm, confidence in subordinates, and innate respect and genuine goodwill for all co-workers. Other managers, who may be content to accept the status quo from the subordinates and organization for which he or she is responsible, become unacceptable to a business (Smith, 2003). These managers cannot compare to the innovative leader, who goes above ...