The emergence for leadership based on values

Abstract

The world is moving from one crisis to another. Many governments have generated excess level of debt, and excessive budget deficits. They have subverted the principles of the market economy when they decided to rescue private banks in bankruptcy. They have accumulated debts instead of create value for the public. There are plenty of signals that the crisis persists because nobody is attacking the roots of the problem, which is, in my modest opinion, a crisis of values and leadership. Leadership crises occur from time to time, either in companies, not for profit organizations or governments. When they occur simultaneously in a large number of organizations, it is an indication that a radical change is needed, requiring a new kind of leadership. The crisis of values generate the destruction of the economic system and asks for a new approach in leadership. The history of human-kind is full of these situations that generated the fall of empires. For example the Greek, the Egypt, the Roman Empires and more recently the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). We know that change is the unique thing that is constant in our lives. We are living in a time that is requiring radical changes. So radical that is something we didn’t live in the past.