Innovative enhancements to key concepts in modern leadership

There is no doubt that the science of leadership has evolved significantly in its history after World War II.

In the last decades of this century, leadership specialists have developed ordinary concepts into innovative concepts, that made them needed for current days.

For instance, the need for transformational and situational leadership, the servant leadership and so on.

Also, leadership specialists developed measurable and tangible tools to measure ability and behaviour of leaders accurately.

For example, I mention here some measures (but not exclusively) such as Thomas, Hogan, podium, etc.

Modern leadership also focused on important concepts such as transparency, governance, building alliance and advocacy for value leadership.

However, some of the concepts put forward needs further clarifications and reconsideration.

For example, modern leadership focuses on the principle of forming allies, it calls on the successful leader to focus a lot of his focus on turning enemies into allies, or at least putting them on neutrality, so that he can reach his goal.

It is true that an outstanding leader is the one who can keep his allies, but the process of change cannot always be so.

In many situations a true leader will find himself between the choice of preserving his allies or remaining alone in the arena victorious for his values.

What I am trying to emphasise here is that the compass and true north should be the values, not building allies only.

The leader has to educate himself to be ready for unity and to feel alienated in bringing change to the process especially in big change initiatives.

There are many examples and testimonies from ancient and modern history, whether at the level of individual leaders or groups, we have namely Givara, the Prophet (PBUH) and Hussein bin Ali.

These are the best examples of the leader’s courageous who sacrificed their lives to stand in the face of many enemies for the values of justice and humanity.

In current days, we see how those who are killed for the defence of their homeland are left alone, where the only motivator are their values, despite the brutality of the enemies and the letdown of any helpers.

While the concept of expanding network is a good concept, and indeed an excellent principle that prompts the leader to the long-term reform process, it reminds the leader to be aware about two fundamentals.

The first is that the end does not justify the means, namely, the use of relationships for illegal causes.

The other thing is that relationships and their expansion should not become the primary concern of the leader where it consumes the energy and efforts.

This is because many relationships are, because of the nature of relationship, quantitative rather than qualitative, so as a result, the goal of expanding relationships may lead to turning down some values.

The motive might change here, and it could lead to satisfaction some of the network and relationships with the substitution of values.

It’s an invitation to govern these concepts with a valuable perspective to enable the person to be ready to get the medal of the true leader immortal in the earth and the heaven.