ABSTRACT
Smart leaders in politics know that pulling the old state levers to make things happen is not going to do the job in the same way. Political and economic turbulence have destabilised communities and dislocated individual lives. In global economy and rapidly changing business environments, competition and hierarchy are being replaced by collaboration and shared leadership. Social theorists can ponder the rise of feminism concurrent with the decline of paternalism. In many parts of the world, the digital revolution is fuelling demands for more sophisticated, efficient and less corrupt state. In China, accountability is also associated with confessing one's crimes on TV in public confessional. All over the world, the health sector is predicted to be the largest source of job creation for next decade as economies the world over are undergoing transition from youthful to ageing societies. Despite the march of technology, there is little sign that industrial-era education and welfare systems are yet being modernised and made flexible.
