I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.
Business leaders shape public opinion.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.