The need for effective leadership at all levels in our organisations has never been greater.
The increasing levels of regulation, litigation risk, morale and stress problems within many workplaces, public suspicion about the motives of many large corporate bodies, increasing complexity and the accelerating rate of change all conspire to make greater demands on organisational leaders than ever before.
Leaders need to deal with an extensive range of problems. They range from crises which need focused direction to system and management problems where the leader has to bring the enhanced thinking and appropriate resources to bear on the problem.
Whatever the level of the individual leader it seems that we can identify six key areas where leaders need to be more effective particularly if they want to be sustainable in their positions and work in a diverse and multi-cultural setting:
