He should also be charismatic and create a cult of personality. This leader is often ego-centered and believes that he is always in control and controls everything. He alone solves all of the problems of the organization. Many new thinkers and scholars studying the art of Leadership are challenging our view of what and who are leaders. In a learning organization, leaders roles differ dramatically from that of the charismatic decision maker.
Leaders are designers, teachers, and stewards.
Leaders need an elevated view so that they can work to be able to see the forest for the trees. Leaders need to be courageous, willing to take risk. Leaders have to seek ways to change and challenge the pattern of how we ve done things. Twenty-First Century leaders need to acknowledge and understand that performance is more impacted by relationship than structure. People want to work for and with a person, not an image or title.