Leadership and Organizational Sustainability

7 Transformational leadership through the human development of the leader

M. Cristina Fernández Trujillo¹ and Nelson Quintero-Moros²

DOI: 10.4324/9781003371335-7

Introduction

We are living in a defining moment, characterized by a paradigm shift that focuses on the importance of intangibles as the most valuable assets for companies. Peter Drucker (1993), in his book Post-Capitalist Society, precisely, establishes that knowledge in organizations is today the only significant resource since traditional factors of production such as land, capital, and labour are obtained with relative ease. It is therefore vitally important to focus on knowledge management and the role of the leader in that process:

But equally important: the real, controlling ...