100 Great Leadership Ideas

100 Great Leadership Ideas, by Jonathan Gifford

• Do you have a new vision for your organization’s long-term future?
• Are you harnessing the collective intelligence of the organization?
• Will you devolve decision making to a level closer to the customer?
• Is your organization making a contribution to the common good?

The list of attributes and behavioural skills needed by any modern leader is dauntingly long. 100 Great Leadership Ideas uses the collective wisdom of over 130 outstanding modern leaders to select and present the most significant leadership ideas, concepts and practices that have been proven to work in today’s business environment. The leaders quoted in this book include the Chief Executive Officers of major corporations around the world, world-changing politicians, leaders from history and renowned academics and thinkers.

The ideas collected in this book have allowed successful modern leaders to deliver exceptional results in a rapidly changing world. They confirm that we must move away from the old-fashioned ‘command and control’ model of leadership and develop a more collaborative, consensual and inspirational approach to running modern organizations.  The great leaders of the future will achieve success through empowerment and devolved decision-making processes and by creating organizational structures that successfully harness the creative energies, innovatory skills and adaptive capacity of every member of the organization. The challenge for modern leaders is, if anything, even greater than before, as some of the old comfort zones of central command are stripped away. But since leadership is all about change, leaders must themselves be prepared to embrace the new leadership challenges of the future.