Corporate Leadership: Opportunities & Challenge

Business leaders have to be continuously learning and discovering new things, ideas, processes and systems for doing better for the firm. For this purpose, they need both far sight and foresight, in 2012, they should be focusing on the firm’s entity in 2022 ten years hence. The leaders can, themselves, become competitive factors for gaining advantage over competitors. The leaders must be in learning mode all the time and this way they can create a learning organization. Leadership for learning organization has become crucial to the success of the firm, because all the management tools may not be enough. Most firms need to continuously develop means and improve ways of doing things and this requires organizational learning. Leadership, as a consequence entails huge responsibility on the shoulders of the leaders, the CEO’s of any firm. Position gives power to the concerned person and he can either use it to his firm’s benefit or abuse it for his own. Firms have known to reach great heights just because of their CEO’s reverse is also true unfortunately.

Keywords-innovation, motivation, learning, opportunity, leadership, strategies, challenges, employment.

Two factors distinguish top leadership organizations: Attention to the combined leadership needs of the individual and corporation, and leveraging custom training programs to accelerate key leadership talent.

—The Harvard Review, March 2010

INTRODUCTION

The importance of business leadership is well articulated by this observation: A good leader can make a success of a weak business plan, but a poor leader can ruin even the best plan. That’s why developing effective leadership by using a consistent talent...

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