While the basic principles of good leadership are timeless, industrial psychologist Alia Bojilova says world now demands a different approach to its practice.
She says: "It's wrong to think modern circumstances demand management tools and reference points that are completely different from those we needed in the past. The concept of good leadership hasn't shifted. What has changed is the circumstances and the manner in which we have to execute those core principles".
Another change is that in the past there was less transparancy. The information about decision making was either not pubic or not accessible. She says: "These days we have an opportunity with information at our fingertips to research and scrutinise leaders and how they achieve outcomes."
Bojilova, who is the keynote at tomorrow's PwC Herald Talks, says people today have less time for, or even less tolerance of, some of the leadship behaviour that we accepted in the past. "We're becoming critical of leadership. To me this means a modern leader is not a different kind of person, it's more about how that person behaves".
In the past the world was more hierarchical. People had little choice but to defer to leaders.
