Leadership ist ein umkämpfter Begriff, der viele Blinkwinkel eröffnet. In jedem Fall ist Leadership ein entscheidender Faktor in der Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, ganz besonders in Zeiten des Wandels und großer Herausforderungen. Lesen Sie in diesem Newsletter Gedanken zum Thema:
Leadership als Grundlage für eine lebbare Welt
Was ist (gutes) Leadership?
It is very difficult to define leadership. But it is certainly not a good thing in and of itself. It’s rather like the sea or nuclear fission, it is morally neutral. It can be used for bad things as well as for good.
Direction, protection and order makes things a little bit more predictable for people. That’s why a strong leader who can offer this takes away the fears and the anxieties and also takes away personal responsibility. We want somebody to take responsibility for us. We all, of course, love freedom, but when things become tough, we want somebody to take charge. And if they fail, we need somebody to blame. I’m not saying this is the right thing, but this is human.
Wie muss sich Leadership im 21. Jahrhundert entwickeln?
Über allem steht ein Stichwort: Transformation. Technologischer und digitaler Wandel in einer globalisierten Welt muss eben gestaltet werden. Und dazu muss sich die Führung in der Gesellschaft insgesamt natürlich auch verändern und an diese Transformation und an diesen Wandel anpassen. Wir reden sehr häufig über den Staat, das Unternehmen, die Organisation und vergessen meines Erachtens häufig dahinter die Menschen. Der People-Factor hat eine neue Bedeutung in dieser Zeit bekommen.
Andrew Roberts: Social media but also all the various technological advances that are going to be taking place with regards to robotics, cyber, AI, sensors, satellites, and space war are going to make conflict a lot more technologically advanced. Leaders are going to have to keep up with all the changes, which seem to be getting faster and faster. Nonetheless, in the end, it still comes down to how one person can lead a hundred, a thousand or a million, or in China’s case, a thousand million.
Konstantin Korotov: I think the leader of the future should be able to navigate this world of louder, more diverse, and more divergent voices, and probably still find something that can bring us together in a society or in an organization and allow us to focus on the common understanding of what is good. We may disagree on many things, but we still need to agree on something, and that’s exactly the role of the leaders in the future.
Leadership in der Demokratie
Leadership has always factored into democracy […] One person, one vote is at least one formulation of who runs the show in a democracy. And yes, there is representative democracy which generates leader figures who represent groups within the democracy. But the idea that each of us has some say means that the leadership model for a democracy involves the individual. And however many individuals the society comprises, those individuals have a role to play in leadership.
Wie können wir Leadership lernen?
Leigh Hafrey: You can teach ethical leadership. It’s not that you need to change an adult’s mindset. It’s not that you need to change the moral compass. You need to make that person aware that we share certain things and at the same time share significant differences. Getting along with one another is about negotiating between individual autonomy and collective security and turning that into productive relations. I don’t think you’re changing the compass. You are simply indicating how much flexibility it gives the compass holder.
Konstantin Korotov: We probably need to believe that the systems allow people to learn leadership. And that probably involves people like me, for example, business school professors.
Anna-Maria Karl: Die Befassung mit den humanistischen Themen ist aus meiner Sicht genau die Basis, um Empowerment zu entwickeln. Man muss heutzutage Kompetenzen haben, die es ermöglichen, sich mit dem Unbekannten auseinanderzusetzen. Diese Beyond-the-Obvious-Denke schafft man besser, wenn man sich auch mal mit den Philosophen oder der Antike auseinandergesetzt hat, wenn man sich nicht nur zielorientiert in seinem teilweise atomisierten Fachgebiet auskennt, sondern darüber hinaus soziale oder auch bildungsbürgerliche Kompetenzen entwickelt.