The brief video clip features Linda A.

Mill, Co-author of "Collective Genius" and professor

management at Harvard Business School, who explains the new ABCs of leading innovation.
From myself, I think leadership is the art of inspiring and influencing other's actions and
behavior to conform to requirements. In order to accomplish shared objectives, a leader must
influence the actions of followers. For this reason, a leader has to have a thorough
understanding of the organization's goals and the factors that contribute to accomplishing
those goals. By concentrating on corporate goals, the leader must give followers direction.
When someone has ability to influence others and they follow their advice, suggestions, and
direction, that person is said to be a leader. Only an effective leader has the power to change a
follower's attitude, perception, and conduct.
Manager is considered a leader inside the company. He or she must exert influence over the
actions and behavior of followers in their capacity as a leader. For this reason, he or she needs
to have thorough understanding of the organization's goals and the methods for
accomplishing them. By concentrating on goals, he or she must give subordinates direction
and instruction.
As Linda explains, leaders must meet the leadership ABCs. "A" that the leader must be an
architect, "B" that he/she must be a bridge builder, and "C" that he/she must be a catalyst.
Innovation becomes more important, which means moving from vision to shaping culture and
skills, so we no longer ask ourselves what our vision is, urging people to follow us and drive
us into the future. We don't have to focus on how to create guidelines for, but we should. If
we want to lead an organization and build an organization capable of massive innovation and
rapid growth, we need ABCs characters in our leadership. The first role is that of the architect
who builds the company's culture and innovative capabilities. Building culture and skill is
necessary for groups of people to collaborate, experiment and learn. The role of leader is to
unlock the various ingenuity within the organization and harness and utilize it for the benefit
of the community. The second role is the Bridger role in building partnership outside the
organization. we need access to people and tools across our organization. we don’t have all
the people and tools to innovate within our organization, so we need to be able to bridge the
gap. This is because other organizations may be better at something and need to focus on
other things that are part of their core competencies. The final point is the role of a catalyst to
accelerate co-creation across the ecosystem. We need the support of other organizations to
innovate. These three roles are closely related. Let's take a look at Pfizer's real-life example
of turning a vendor into a partner. So, it turns out companies have to go out to get what they
want.
To get in the point that the varieties of leadership skills are based on the personal qualities as
well as managerial qualities. As you’ve mentioned in the question, I'll explain six leadership
skills. We can carry-out ABCs principle as a primary perspective in order to develop
leadership skills and by implementing these below mentioned points in our practical life. The
six leadership skills are mentioned below:
1. Vision and foresight: A leader must have vision and foresight about how to begin the
work and how to achieve organizational objectives. He or she must have the ability to take
right decision at the right time to overcome any kind of problems and difficulties in
performance.
2. Human relation expert: A successful leader is one who is expert in human relation.
He/she has to deal with various stakeholders of the organization like customers, visitors,
subordinates, suppliers, shareholders, etc. good human relation is fruitful not only to gain
co-operation from subordinates but also become permanent assets of the organization.
3. Motivation and communication skills: A successful leader must possess motivating skill.
He/she must have ability to induce the subordinates to gain maximum effort from them.
4. Technical knowledge: Today is the new era we are been introduced with the new
technology day by day and leader should keep up-to-date with latest technical
developments.
5. Wider perspective: A leader must have wider vision. He/she have ability to carry-out
organizational performance in accordance of plan and system as he/she has to measure
whether group performance is going in accordance with organizational setting or not.
6. Knowledge of psychology: A leader is a person playing the vital role in the organization,
he/she has to keep touch with psychological knowledge. He/she must possess traits of
sympathy, sociability, knowledge of the self and also knowledge of subordinates.