Webster’s defines leadership as the office or position of a Leader; the capacity to lead; the act or an instance of leading. While the fundamental meaning of leadership has not changed much since the beginning of recorded history, this blog will focus on the new 21st Century definitions of leadership. We will discuss some of the key challenges leaders face today including:
- Knowledge Driven Age
- Rapid Change
- Organizations without boundaries
- Inter-Group Leadership
- Impact of Knowledge Workers
Leadership in the 21st century is no longer a fixed role. Today’s leadership operates in a fluid, dynamic environment where innovation rules and leadership can come from any direction including outside the group.
Innovation, which is different from invention – developing great ideas, can be defined as ideas applied successfully in practice. Innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, entrepreneurship, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. While innovation is usually associated with the output of the process, this blog will tend to focus on the process itself, from the origination of an idea to its transformation into something useful, to its implementation and its impact on the system within which the process of innovation unfolds.
So please join me in the discussion of what makes 21st leadership and how the innovation drives the continual evolution what it means to be a leader.
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