Every radical innovation or radical improvement or revolutionary change should be followed by an army of incremental innovations, continuous improvements and/or change-anchoring activities to achieve greater and sustainable results. Similarly, transactional leadership is complementary with transformational leadership.

Transactional leadership is an instructional leadership mode. It is about deployment and management of people and resources to get results.

Transformational leadership is about providing a new focus and implementing new ideas. It arouses emotion, develops a collaborative culture, taps into the emotional and spiritual resources of an organization, and builds inventiveness and  problem solving capabilities.

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Transactional leaderships is about deployment and management of people and resources to get results. It is instructional leadership based on an exchange of services for various kinds of rewards that the leader controls.

Transactional leadership is a first stage and central to getting day-to-day routines carried out. It works only when both leaders and followers understand and are in agreement about which tasks are important.

Transactional leadership is essential to getting the job done but transformational leadership is what provides direction and the emotional glue that causes organizations and the people in them to excel.

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