Leadership Styles Inextricably Intertwined With the Alternative Energy of Solar, Wind, or Hybrid as Disruptive Technologies

Abstract

Leadership styles are inextricably intertwined with using solar, wind, or hybrid power to complement hydropower or clean nuclear energy. Changing elements using alternative forms of energy do result in disrupting the existing technologies. This study explains that without deploying various leadership styles to cognitively and effectively implement solar, wind, or hybrid alternative energy as disruptive technologies, no superior alchemy could lead the implementations from proposal to fruition. Even where all elements within various leadership styles are deployed, political consideration becomes a vital axis of the transitions juxtaposed within the various leadership styles. Oil prices have to be above US$100 per barrel for alternative sources of energy to be profitable. From developing to developed nations, solar, wind, or hybrid as alternative energies should complement hydropower due to consistent epileptic brownouts. Findings in this research revealed strategic leadership planning of over one year is reduced to three-to-six months due to situational technological happenstances. Various leadership styles' approaches to alternative sources of energy were compared and contrasted. This research concludes that due to the brutal reality within the global village, a situational leadership style is trumping other form of leadership styles in finding alternative source of energy.

Keywords:

• alternative energy
• disruptive technologies
• hybrid energy
• solar
• wind