Credit transformation process • 02.26.10
Today, many organizations disappear from the list of successful business organizations on the popular ranking of some professional bodies (Agrawal, 2006). One of the factors generally reported as its root cause is the failure to manage innovation within the system. A critical psychological analysis of the attitude (statements as refl ected on interviews to
the media or the address of the Annual General Meeting) and behaviour of the respected business leaders and CEOs (as actually perceived by the group within or insiders, who really know the person well) reveals a wide discrepancy. It cannot be objectively established but inferences could be drawn that probably Indian business leaders and successful entrepreneurs possess a common style of managing people. At some stage in every level it is the personal relationship that matters in the fi nal decisionmaking.
This is based on the perceptual response analysis of those who aspire to get a chance to lead the organization. In case my thesis gets empirical support and validity, then the absence of entrepreneurial leadership in India requires further empirical examination. Thus, this leads only to routine success and normal achievement, which could be relatively better in that business environment. Any global business/ entrepreneurial leader of this century has to go beyond personalized relationships and feelings of insecurity (loss/absence of power) in order to compete and keep going. Therefore, societies, where leaders say something and do just the opposite, will have diffi culties in fostering and developing an entrepreneurial existence. The role of the top management in an organization is crucial in making an entrepreneurial initiative, a reality and the process effective. Here, a CEO has to go miles away from the transformational leadership if he/she is willing to take the organization ahead.
Consider two facts: