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    Six key cognitive factors are important for effective leadership: 1. General mental ability and cognitive intelligence to formulate strategies, solve problems, and make decisions. 2. Knowledge of the business or task being led in order to establish rapport with members and be technically competent. 3. Creativity to arrive at original solutions to complex problems, ranging from innovative ideas to standard approaches. 4. Insight into people and situations to make wise assignments and adapt leadership based on trends. 5. Farsightedness and conceptual thinking to develop vision and strategy through understanding long-term implications. 6. Openness to experience and a positive orientation toward learning with well-developed intellects that are imaginative and

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    Six key cognitive factors are important for effective leadership: 1. General mental ability and cognitive intelligence to formulate strategies, solve problems, and make decisions. 2. Knowledge of the business or task being led in order to establish rapport with members and be technically competent. 3. Creativity to arrive at original solutions to complex problems, ranging from innovative ideas to standard approaches. 4. Insight into people and situations to make wise assignments and adapt leadership based on trends. 5. Farsightedness and conceptual thinking to develop vision and strategy through understanding long-term implications. 6. Openness to experience and a positive orientation toward learning with well-developed intellects that are imaginative and

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    Six key cognitive factors are important for effective leadership: 1. General mental ability and cognitive intelligence to formulate strategies, solve problems, and make decisions. 2. Knowledge of the business or task being led in order to establish rapport with members and be technically competent. 3. Creativity to arrive at original solutions to complex problems, ranging from innovative ideas to standard approaches. 4. Insight into people and situations to make wise assignments and adapt leadership based on trends. 5. Farsightedness and conceptual thinking to develop vision and strategy through understanding long-term implications. 6. Openness to experience and a positive orientation toward learning with well-developed intellects that are imaginative and

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    Six key cognitive factors are important for effective leadership: 1. General mental ability and cognitive intelligence to formulate strategies, solve problems, and make decisions. 2. Knowledge of the business or task being led in order to establish rapport with members and be technically competent. 3. Creativity to arrive at original solutions to complex problems, ranging from innovative ideas to standard approaches. 4. Insight into people and situations to make wise assignments and adapt leadership based on trends. 5. Farsightedness and conceptual thinking to develop vision and strategy through understanding long-term implications. 6. Openness to experience and a positive orientation toward learning with well-developed intellects that are imaginative and

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    The passage discusses cognitive traits and factors that contribute to effective leadership such as general mental ability, knowledge, creativity, insight, farsightedness, and openness to new experiences.

    The six cognitive factors are general mental ability, knowledge of the business, creativity, insight into people and situations, farsightedness and conceptual thinking, and openness to experience.

    Traits associated with openness to experience include being imaginative, cultured, curious, original, broad-minded, intelligent and artistically sensitive.

    Cognitive Factors

    1. Exam Q: Describe all cognitive traits of an effective leader?


    Exam Q: Describe mental ability and cognitive resource of an effective
    leader?
    Cognition refers to the mental process or faculty (ability) by which
    knowledge is gathered.
    Leaders must have problem-solving and intellectual skills to effectively
    gather, process, and store essential information.
    Six cognitive factors related to leadership effectiveness have been
    identified. They are:
    a)
    b)
    c)
    d)
    e)
    f)

    General Mental Ability (Cognitive Intelligence)


    Knowledge of the Business or Group Task
    Creativity
    Insight Into People and Situations
    Farsightedness and Conceptual Thinking
    Openness to Experience

    a) General Mental Ability (Cognitive Intelligence)


    Leaders need to have cognitive ability to formulate suitable strategies,
    solve problems, and make correct decisions
    Effective leaders have good problem solving ability.
    Intellectual ability strongly related to leadership.
    b) Knowledge of the Business or Group Task
    Intellectual ability is closely related to having knowledge of the business.
    An effective leader has to be technically or professionally competent in
    some discipline, particularly when leading a group of specialists.
    It is difficult for the leader to establish rapport with group members when
    he or she does not know what they are doing and when the group does not
    respect the leaders technical skills.
    The importance of knowledge of the business is increasingly being
    organized as an attribute of executive leadership.

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    c) Creativity
    Many effective leaders are creative in the sense that they arrive at
    imaginative and original solutions to complex problems.
    Creative ability lies on a continuum (range, field, variety), with some
    leaders being more creative than others.
    At one end of the creative continuum are business leaders who think of
    innovative products and services.
    At the middle of the creative continuum are leaders who explore
    imaginativebut not breakthroughsolutions to business problems.
    At the low end of the creative continuum are leaders who inspire group
    members to push forward with standard solutions to organizational
    problems.
    d) Insight Into People and Situations
    Another important cognitive trait of effective leaders is insight, a depth of
    understanding that requires considerable intuition and common sense.
    A manager with keen insight is able to make wise choices in selecting
    people for key assignments.
    Another major advantage of being insightful is that the leader cab size up
    the situation and adapt his or her leadership approach accordingly.
    Insight is also closely linked to perceiving trends in the environment.
    Leader must be able to process many different types of information, and
    use their perceptions to predict the direction of environmental forces.
    e) Farsightedness and Conceptual Thinking
    To develop vision and corporate strategy, a leader needs farsightedness,
    the ability to understand the long-range implications of actions and
    policies.
    Ray J. Friant, Jr., recommends that to develop as future business leaders,
    junior executives should be given long-term assignment in long-range
    planning and implementation.
    At the same time they should go through their usual developmental
    rotations such as intermediate-term assignments in marketing and
    manufacturing.
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    f) Openness to Experience
    Yet another important cognitive characteristic of leaders is their openness
    to experience, or their positive orientation toward learning.
    People who have great deal of openness to experience have welldeveloped intellects.
    Traits commonly associated with the dimension of the intellect include
    being imaginative, cultured, curious, original, broad-minded, intelligent and
    artistically sensitive.

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