Latest Leadership Statistics The Covid Influence on Leadership

In the last two years, the face of leadership has altered, and what’s more frightening is that scenarios in the future to come will represent a huge challenge for leaders all around the world. Leaders today are at the brink of what we thought might never come. What’s more amusing is that the ‘leadership challenge’ is made even more difficult by the ambiguity that exists in this situation. Today’s leaders are confronted with a plethora of ‘leadership issues’ and competing demands, the majority of which do not have a simple binary solution. It’s critical to consider competing viewpoints, especially when both perspectives appear to be rational; it’s almost like a game that can’t be won. In a nutshell, the demands on leadership are unprecedented.

To account for this unprecedented complexity that leaders and organisations encounter, we clearly need a new way of thinking about leadership. But before we get into that, we need to first look at some of the popular trends in leadership.