Intellectual leader and his role in the modern management system

Abstract

This paper aims to research the new type of the leadership, known as intellectual or transformational one. Thus, intellectualization process as the core one for creation and development intellectual leaders is viewed. In the paper authors examine different types and directions of the intellectualization process (in community, economy and labour activity). Knowledge systems, informational systems and intellectual technologies as result of intellectualization process are also considered in the paper. Special attention is paid to the problem of intellectual management as the novel management theory, based on integration knowledge and character management. Problem of intellectual leader development in the context of innovation and knowledge economies is researched. The main features of the intellectual leader, including intellectual curiosity, goal orientation and taking a risk, are viewed. The activities, ensuring model of intellectual management implementation on the national and regional levels are proposed. Taking the results and findings of the paper, it is necessary to say that intellectualization in Ukraine is slowly ongoing process, which is characterized by problematic involvement of the knowledge, intellectual and informational systems and technologies into industrial, managerial, administrative and other business-processes. Thus, it needs the complex systematic measures for its improvement and acceleration, which are proposed in the article.