ABSTRACT
The leadership described in the preceding pages is becoming more and more essential. We are presently moving at breakneck speed into an information age and an information economy. The ability to rapidly accumulate, assimilate, and disseminate large quantities of information makes present-day operating conditions include:
High levels of turbulence within both the operating environments and the organization
Increasingly unpredictable events arising from highly turbulent conditions
Increasing rapidity of critical events
Increasingly complex operations required to cope with threatening and uncertain events and their results
