This is one of the best treatments I’ve read recently about the deep and unsettling transitions going on in the way we think about, and prepare for, organisational and institutional leadership. It’s direct, honest and very readable.
“The core leadership challenge is how to lead a company and government departments through the speed and nature of fundamental change that threatens the very conformity which has allowed the current leadership cohort to qualify for the top.” … “What needs to be investigated most urgently is what it is about modern leadership and current management culture and practice that makes it so hard to think the unthinkable or the ‘unpalatable”Thinking-the-Unthinkable-cima-report CLEAN