Young Leadership Skills Required in the Frugal Innovation Process and Its Developments

Introduction

Leadership is defined as the ability to accomplish a set goal(s) due to the act of inspiring and motivating a group of your peers. Former United States president Dwight D. Eisenhower made famous a quote that stated, “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

The Army's definition of leadership is “the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.” An army leader is anyone who inspires and influences people to accomplish their goals (Alshareef et al., 2022, Shaikh et al., 2022; Tunio et al., 20201). Leaders motivate people both inside and outside the army to help them pursue their goals, focus thinking, and shape decisions for the better of the army. Leadership can be acquired by anyone as long as they have the self-determination to do so. The main principles of leadership in the army are broken down in to the acronym LDRSHIP (loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage), characteristics the army aims at instilling in each solider (Tunio et al., 2021; Memon et al., 2021; Afshan et al., 2021). Leadership skills are vitally needed for the development of young soldiers to cope up with the changes in the world over the past two decades, which have created a dynamic situation — volatile, unpredictable, and novel in many respects — making the conduct of military operations more complex and varied than in the past (Chaudhry et al., (2021;Tunio et al., 2021; Mushtaq et al., 2021). This article examines the nature of demands on Army officers in the contemporary operating environment and their implications for leadership development. This is aroused from concerns about both the current operational environment and a closely related development, the Army’s ongoing transformation of its structure, technologies, and operating techniques (Tunio et al., 2021; Gul et al., 2021; Shaikh et al., 2021). How will the Army prepare its future leaders for the new demands that will inevitably be placed on them? The report describes analysis and findings on three major topics: the general attributes and intellectual qualities required by leaders in the modern environment; specific operational skills and depth the new environment requires; and the extent to which career paths can provide a foundation of operational experience while still meeting other demands on the officer corps (Aurangzeb et al., 2021; Tunio and Shaikh, 2020; Shaikh, and Tunio, 2020). Although the report concentrates on changes in leader skills needed to keep pace with the evolving operating environment, it also re-emphasizes that the Army should continue to acquire and develop leaders with the character traits and values that have always been the underpinning of effective leadership. Beyond that essential base of leadership, the findings imply that considerably more needs to be done to prepare leaders to meet the challenges of the contemporary environment and to continually learn and adapt to new circumstances (Tunio et al., 2021; Gilal et al., 2021). There have been different theories relating to leadership skills, some of them are defined as under: