Leadership in Action: Reader Forum—A Portrait of the Leader in the Twenty-First Century

Reader Forum: A Portrait of the Leader in the Twenty-First Century

Fahri Karakas

Welcome to the twenty-first century, a century of global uncertainty, chaos, innovation, change, dynamism, flux, speed, inter-connectedness, and complexity. As we move deeper into the century, a new age is dawning, one that encompasses corporate scandals, globalization, hypercompetition, ecological vulnerability, rapid advances in technology, diversity, global warming, pollution, terrorism, and a range of other global social changes and complex problems.

The new world of the twenty-first century is knowledge intensive, globalized, fast-paced, ecologically vulnerable, diverse, chaotic, nonlinear, interconnected, and multicultural. Societies are experiencing the globalization ...