While developing the leadership capacities of business leadership is seen as integral to improving performance and effectiveness in such organizations, these efforts can face significant challenges in practice. In today’s world, leaders have never been so prominent or important. However, to fully prepare business leaders for the many challenges facing them, there is a need to abandon the traditional beliefs regarding the very meaning of leadership.
The emergence of shared leadership
Roughly 20% of the world GDP is spent on projects. Although historically prevalent in industries such as construction and engineering, more recently the more global, dynamic and competitive landscape in which organisations from SMEs to MNCs find themselves, has seen the project form of organising increase in prevalence exponentially and become a dominant organisational architecture both within and between organisations in sectors as diverse as software, R&D, consulting, advertising and new product development.
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