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Essay on Leadership-2
How the art of leadership is different today than it was twenty thirty years ago. This is important to know because if we try to lead today using yesterday's methods, we'll be lost. On my wall at home, I have a map of my neighborhood that's 70 years old. If I handed you this map today, and you tried to use it to navigate, you'd be lost. You can't use yesterday's roadmap to navigate today's roads.
The principles of leadership never change. There are principles of leadership, for instance, that you can find in the Bible, in books like Nehemiah that are timeless. But the methods of leadership change all the time. What I'm going to tell you tonight probably wouldn't have worked 100 years ago and what I'm going to tell you may not work in 100 years. But you need to know it today. This is the shape of 21st century leadership, and you need to know it ((Ciulla, 26
The leader of the past - what I'll call the modern era - was an expert at administering structures, at providing guidance and regulations. The leader of the past was directive. "I'll tell you what to do. It's not your place to ask any questions."...........
