Leadership and Innovation Quiz

What is a key trait of transformational leaders?

• Focus on short-term tasks

• Inspire with a shared vision

• Avoid innovation

• Prioritize hierarchy

Which leadership style is most supportive of team autonomy?

• Transactional

• Authoritarian

• Servant

• Bureaucratic

Strategic alignment means:

• Copying competitors’ strategies

• Reducing staff roles

• Connecting innovation with business goals

• Outsourcing innovation

What does Kotter’s model emphasize as a first step?

• Celebrating success

• Communicating vision

• Creating urgency

• Hiring consultants

An effective vision is:

• Complex and abstract

• Inspirational and clear

• Focused on internal politics

• Static and unchanging

Digital leaders must be:

• Risk-averse

• Technology-agnostic

• Tech-savvy and agile

• Remote-only managers

Resistance to change is often due to:

• Salary issues

• Poor communication

• System failures

• Economic trends

A KPI is used to:

• Dismiss underperformers

• Track innovation alignment

• Create rigid rules

• Delay transformation

Vision helps innovation by:

• Restricting experimentation

• Providing direction

• Reducing funding

• Ignoring customer input

Leaders can foster innovation by:

• Delegating all decisions

• Enforcing strict rules

• Supporting experimentation and collaboration

• Ignoring failure