KUALA LUMPUR: Lack of communicative ability and emotional awareness are the two biggest leadership gaps in Malaysia, according to data from the Asian Leadership Index (ALI). The study, conducted by the Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre, found that 24% of Malaysian respondents viewed communicative ability as the biggest leadership gap, followed by lack of emotional awareness (23%), need to develop others (19%), need to be more empowering (15%) and visionary traits (10%). The report on the study’s findings was released yesterday. The study, which spanned 18 countries in Asia, involved interviews with almost 3,500 selected senior and emerging leaders, and it was about ideal leaders and what was missing in them. Singapore, Myanmar and Vietnamese respondents chose “emotionally aware” as their leaders’ biggest gap, while those in Indonesia, Korea, Japan and Thailand chose “visionary”. Respondents in China, meanwhile, ranked “develop others” as their key leadership gap. T