Transformational Leadership through Applied Neuroscience: Transmission Mechanism of the Thinking Process

Abstract

The world has changed as we entered the new situation full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. To be able to cope with this situation, an organization has to translate the challenges into a clear vision and action. A leadership style that is agile to adapt with the magnitude and the characteristic of the occurring problem is needed. Transformational leadership is a participative leadership style that is not only able to motivate and drive the organization vertically and horizontally but also always be agile in every circumstance. Thus, the organizational capacity to achieve the shared vision and mission will be encouraged. Applied neuroscience gives an understanding about the activities and mechanism of the brain which improves the required competences of a leader. Therefore, applied neuroscience will help a leader transform the organization. This study shows that applied neuroscience can help a transformational leadership achieve a "physically, emotionally, and mentally safe" state and encourage an organization to transform itself effectively.This study does not only explore a new perspective of transformational leadership issues, but it also provides an important contribution related to applied neuroscience, in particular, mapping transmission mechanism of the brain activities affecting body's reaction, internally (emotions and hormone) and externally (body reaction), which further affect the transformational leadership behaviors.

Pengujian Kembali Volatilitas Kebijakan Trilemma Terhadap Variabel Makroekonomi di Indonesia

“…Shock ekonomi atau guncangan ekonomi yang diberikan akibat kebijakan trilemma terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi dan inflasi dikarenakan masih rapuhnya perekonomian Indonesia terhadap volatilitas kebijakan moneter yang dilakukan oleh Bank Indonesia. Dimana stabilitas nilai tukar yang mencerminkan salah satu tujuan dari Bank Indonesia untuk menciptakan stabilitas sistem keuangan perlu untuk di harmonisasikan dengan intervensi bank sentral di pasar valas (Juhro dan Aulia 2017).…”

Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Communication: Toward a More Balanced Approach With Insight From Neuroscience

“…In an operant conditioning manner, a video protocol, for example, can give real-time feedback by rewarding targeted performance while penalizing undesired brain patterns. Such method is based on the principle of neuroplasticity and has been argued to support leadership training (Waldman et al, 2011;Juhro and Aulia, 2018) and harness the ability to self-control brain activities that would eventually enhance transformational leadership style (Edison et al, 2019). Future research could describe how exactly culture soft-wires the brain, affecting thoughts and behaviors such as creativity via different neural mechanisms and investigate how, with neurofeedback and other brain training techniques, these mechanisms can be changed or maintained.…”

The Role of Catalytic Collaboration in Leveraging Transformational Leadership Competencies to Generate Sustainable Innovation

“…These three clusters mean that a transformation must be started from the leader first (inner); then to other members of the organization, in this case followers (others); and eventually the organizational transformation itself (outer). These three transformational leadership competency clusters are then developed into nine competencies that a transformational leader must possess, namely (i) visionary, (ii) breakthrough, (iii) agility, (iv) emotional intelligence, (v) social intelligence, (vi) ability to influence others, (vii) ability to communicate, (viii) ability to solve a problem, and (ix) ability to make a decision (Juhro and Aulia, 2018).…”

“…Transformational leaders are a type of leaders most appropriate to the current situation (Juhro & Aulia, 2018). Moreover, transformational leaders have an opportunity to be the answer to the world by becoming reformers in various fields through innovation taking advantage of constraints (frugal inovation).…”

“…Since the future is full of uncertainties, a leader must possess some competencies in facing all those uncertainties and environmental upheavals that may happen. It means that a transformational leader must be able to design a policy, able to solve a problem, able to influence, have a visionary viewpoint, be agile, have a new breakthrough, and possess emotional and social intelligences (Juhro and Aulia, 2018;Edison et al, 2019). When a leader owns those competencies, he is expected to be able to answer various challenges with various breakthroughs in order to create new sources of growth (Juhro and Aulia, 2019).…”