ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the conceptual model of extraordinary leadership. Extraordinary leadership is about growth, possibilities and innovation. The chapter explores one's view of why organizations have reached the position that they often find themselves in and some reasons for resistance to those ideas espoused by the model of extraordinary leadership. Extraordinary management involves questioning and shattering paradigms, and then creating new ones. It is a process that depends critically upon contradiction and tension. Relationships have the capability to deliver flexibility and adaptability whereas to achieve these within rules means interpreting them flexibly. From a psychological perspective, relationships are developed more effectively when a person knows him or herself in a relational way. In recent years, writers like Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee have contributed in the area of emotional intelligence. They talk in terms of emotional maturity and have developed assessment tools to determine strengths and areas for development.
