MANAGE AND LEAD
The Future of Leadership Winning organizations don’t just make accountability a priority, they make it a way of life. by Chrissey Breault
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hroughout the last decade there was a considerable investment made in
Flexibility and Agility A research study from the Institute of
executive training. A poll conducted by
Leadership and Management suggests the
70 percent of Americans considers leader-
leaders will be flexibility. For future success,
researchers from Harvard University showed
leadership practices are adapted to the transforming context and carried out successfully.
single most important feature of future
Going Global
managers will need to become more agile,
simple idea but a fact. In an increasingly
generated by changing workplaces.
ganization of almost any size. Businesses will
many leadership development programs
to cultural and technological changes that will
side their home markets or are part of a team
What will be the future of leadership?
job will be to ensure key management and
ship crisis a significant factor in the national economic decline. This is a very confusing
situation – on the one hand, we see a rising demand for leadership skills; on the other,
seem to fail to deliver their promised results.
responsive and adaptable to different needs Those managers will also need to be open
impact the core of enterprise operations. Their
Business globalization is no longer a
globalized world, it is still an issue for an or-
become aware that leaders who operate outthat stretches beyond borders require a host
of specific skills – from coping with ambiguJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 47