They often have little to do with leadership. I also get the impression that everybody wants to be a leader. The days where the teams and flock were led by command, control, compartmentalizing and coping in crisis situations seem to be going. All over the world, in every organization, there is an open challenge to the old styles of leadership and management that were autocratic and command and control in a multitude of levels of management. We now see far more flatter structures and lots of collaboration and interaction in the processes.
Followers are far more intelligent.
In a study I did over a period of three years we discovered the profile of how leadership and management is developed in people in a Southern African context. People all start off as followers. Then they evolve into an intelligent follower and then into a manager. Leadership in the new millennium will have to deal with far more complex situations than leaders of the past 20 years. There is tremendous change in the world of work.