Business Leaders And Organizations Of Tomorrow

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The perception of the article indicated that because of rapid changes in technologies, senior executives must be highly talented, skilled leaders with critical decision making ability to be truly successful business leaders. The assumption was that the future of an organization's success or failure would depend solely on "gut feeling", on the spot decision making process. Therefore, business leaders would depend on internal personal drive to lead, rather than systematic, long-term leadership programs from within the organizations.

The author emphasized how important it is for team leaders to assure the right decisions are getting made and their team is supported and equipped to make the right decisions. This process would not be easy if the team rely heavily in its leader to define all key factors. Loyalty would definitely be a key factor for teamwork to success. Therefore, even though team leader are self-motivated, highly driven individuals, the team would not be able to produce consistence, good results without loyalty from most if not all team members. The resentments and uncertainties of team members toward new leaders have always been one of the key factors for projects to become unfocussed.

In my opinion, hiring highly motivated, skilled, talented leaders to perform "gut instinct" or "on the spot" decision-makings would be quick fix solution to a problematic organization. Re-structuring of an organization might provide stock-holders a false assurance that the organization is doing something about its problem, hence, becoming re-active rather than pro-active. Most long term successful companies (E.G., 3M. J&J...) do not focus on hiring larger than life leaders but rather leaders who can focus on solid continuous success and long term growths of the organizations. There are the leaders who would provide systematic