AMBIDEXTROUS LEADERSHIP APPLIED TO EDUCATION METHODOLOGIES

Companies seek to innovate to differentiate themselves from their competitors. To do this, they hire individuals who will potentially innovate. This requires that individuals have developed certain skills and abilities that will allow them to adapt and face a complex working world on the one hand, and to develop innovation on the other. The development of these skills must be one of the main objectives of educational institutions. Through ambidextrous leadership, students can expand skills related to exploration and exploitation, and ultimately broaden innovation. The objective of this research is to analyse the previous publications on the field of ambidextrous leadership and education to get to know the feasibility of application of ambidextrous leadership practices on schools and universities. The methodology applied is bibliometric analysis, which is a systematic literature review that allows the researcher to analyse a high number of papers and extract relevant conclusions based on the scene of the whole. Exercising or building ambidextrous minds, combining both exploratory and exploitative learning behaviours, allows reaching a high level in design thinking. People with ambidextrous minds create a synergy between old and new knowledge, producing innovation by approaching problems and solutions in an unusual way.