I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.