Leading the Way

Leading in the twenty-first century

Leadership is about both the person and the context. Most of this book is about the first part of that statement – you and the capabilities you will need in order to be effective. Nevertheless, we need to take a little time exploring the other element that will affect you – the environment in which you are operating. So let us take a look at the context.

To make sense of how you will need to lead we must have some idea of what a successful twenty-first-century organisation might look like. Despite the mass of research and evidence, building this picture is no easy matter. Before our eyes, organisational capabilities and the context in which they operate keep changing and new notions about what a successful ...