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LEADERSHIP

The new In this uncertain and insecure strategy is that people long for
desire for environment people want leaders with genuine strong leaders and what they
strong a clear vision of where to go, with the now get are unguided missiles like US-
leaders in guts to take tough decisions and the President Donald Trump or awkward
politics and will to execute these decisions without characters like Uber-CEO Travis
business compromise. Kalanick.

When the going gets tough, The ugly problem is neither
the tough get going. This companies nor political parties have
80’s song of Billy Ocean been breeding this type of strong
very much describes the situation we leader during recent decades. The
are in - be it in politics or business established career systems prefer
life. Voters as well as shareholders agreeable but weak characters
now ask for strong leaders. We live because the nice and the wise guys
in times that are extremely volatile, produce less friction within the system
uncertain, complex and ambiguous. than strong personalities.

Since strong leaders within the But there is no use in badmouthing
established political and business figures like Trump and Kalanick in
systems are a scarce resource, voters order to avoid similar characters
and shareholders are now watching making their way up the ranks in
out for this kind of personality outside
the system. The problem with this

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