ABSTRACT
Legitimacy of traditional leaderships is challenged in a Wicked World. Traditional leaders are often not the first to notice the need for change or the first to identify new directions. Leaders are constantly challenged in a continuously changing landscape: the ‘rules of the game’ and ‘who is in the game’ are frequently changing. On the contrary, managers are no better equipped than others in the organization about the occurrences inside and outside the organization. Valuing employees for their inputs throughout the organization leads to productive futures in organizations. Leaders in politics, businesses and civil society are increasingly entering into partnerships. Dictators get away with this by isolating their countries from the rest of the world; abuse of power takes place in closed systems and where imbalances of power are present also in other systems like religious institutions, cults and sects, sweatshops, organizations and households with migrant labour where law enforcement is weak, in marriages, etc.
