FORMS OF MANIFESTATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

Under modern highly competitive conditions, the important task for countries of the world is the achievement of not only the economic development, but also the leader positions, which by themselves are a tool of the competitive struggle. The manifestation of leadership is of importance among separate persons (in the policy, in the business and other circles) and on the level of companies and national economies. In the modern context, the meaning of the leadership varies essentially – now, it is perceived significantly wider than a psychological phenomenon, becomes an element of the process of management of a collective, and, as is testified by practice, transits more and more to the plane of economic analysis on various levels of a social structure.
Under conditions of the formation of a post-industrial society, the break-through development of countries and separate subjects (corporations, universities, etc.) is supported not only by the presence of resources, but the technologies of their use (including those aimed at the fabrication of qualitatively new products and services). In the modern world, the country-leader is, in the first turn, an intellectual center, which is an integrator, initiator, and organizer of active actions.
The main attention is paid to the determination of criteria of intellectual leadership and forms of its manifestation. Two main groups of criteria are separated: first, as for the quality of human resources (their intellectual component) and, second, the efficiency of the intellectual activity. The forms of manifestation of the intellectual leadership are high positions in the ratings, estimates, indices, etc., which involve various aspects and indicators of the intellectual component of human resources or the efficiency of the intellectual activity. Here, we try to determine the intellectual component in the world ratings and its weighty indicators by different criteria.
The actualization of the problem of leadership in the modern global medium is related to the sharpening of competition and to the complication of the structure of the global economy and the factors of its development. The complication of the subjective and objective nature of leadership is manifested in the diversification of the forms of activity and is realized on various levels of the economic activity. The separation of the intellectual leadership is confirmed, on the one hand, by the enhancement of the role of intellectual resources in the attainment of leader positions by various criteria of the economic and innovative development and, on the other hand, by the fact that the intellectual activity becomes an individual sphere of the global competition. An increase in the value of intellectual component is proved for two main directions: first, through the analysis of the amount and the quality of human resources and, second, through the number and the quality of results of the intellectual activity.