Authentic leadership. Inclusive leadership. Transformational leadership. These are the modern day leadership approaches that are being discussed, adapted and being tipped as the need of the hour.

Leadership has always been a topic of immense interest. In these times there is a grave leadership deficit. Companies and countries are finding it difficult to find leaders with the ability to inspire and bring change.

Day in, day out scams and frauds of the most promising leaders are coming out. Thought leaders are reassessing what the right behavioral frameworks are that define the type of leaders who not only come and get amazing results but also leave behind an enduring legacy.

There is also a confusion on what do we mean when we talk about leadership. Is the world’s richest man the world’s best leader? If yes or no, why is he, or, is he not a leader? This needs to be debated at length.

What has happened is that every star that starts shining on the leadership galaxy is many times just a shooting star. Leaders of yesterday, on whose style and success case studies were written, turn out full of holes.

A recent example is of the Rockstar business leader Carlos Ghosn who was at one time ranked above Bill Gates as one of the most influential business leaders. His achievement in turning around Renault and the group Nissan was a business success imperative. But his fall was equally dramatic. From red carpets receptions to being smuggled out in a music instrumental box, it is a series of corporate romance turning into a screaming........

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