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14- Leadership for the 21 st

Century

The previous articles discussed the importance of transformational
leadership in the corporate world. This article looks at the traits and
attributes needed in the 21st century business landscape. Though
the article on transformative leadership touched upon several
aspects of leadership in the contemporary times, this article expands
on it by including the role of ethics and value based leadership for
the 21st century.

If there is one lesson to be learnt from the ongoing global financial
crisis, it is that the business leaders failed miserably to implement
value based systems and instead, gave free rein to greed and the
pursuit of monetary rewards at the expense of everything else.
Indeed, as the behavior of the bankers and the financial elite proved
in the aftermath of the crisis, they were more interested in furthering
their goals rather than thinking about the welfare of the people.

The business landscape of the 21st century is extremely
competitive and this connected world means that leaders have
extraordinary demands placed upon them. However, this does
not mean that they take shortcuts to success and sacrifice ethics
and principles at the altar of profits.

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By: Dr. Hussein Saad Certified Level 5
Leadership and Coach 49
+966 55 119 6445
Email: has@sajillat.com