What additional skills will leaders need in the future to be effective in organizations?

Question

What additional skills will leaders need in the future to be effective in organizations?

Answer 1

Ability to work cooperatively in groups of differing numbers of peers.
Ability to gather a diverse team.
Ability to promote a sense of community within a diverse group.
Understanding group dynamics
Do all of the above on the world stage as part of the Internet information age
Honest and trustworthy.
Give employees satisfactory salaries and benefits along with keeping his/her own compensation package straight forward and realistic.
Ability to be transparent in all company communications with employees, consumers, boards of directors, etc.

Answer 2

I think the current skills expected of a leader are still not forthcoming in many areas, so perhaps the future will continue to need leaders who have :

integrity, wisdom, humility, peopleskills, maturity, and intelligence.

http://effectiveleadership.nmaskuri.com

Answer 3

1. Mediation and conflict resolution - to deal with diverse groups and differences in a cooperative environment to achieve common goals
2. Media and communication - being able to organize and communicate using advanced media technology in order to reach people most effectively, including internet, radio or television broadcasting, and publishing
3. Business and financial management experience - building and investing financial and other resources cost-effectively, including time, energy, and effort
4. Delegation and education/training - ability to replicate and expand efforts by creating independent teams so that more can be accomplished in an organized system

For future models of financial, political, and social institutions, look online for
* "microcredit/microfinancing" or "barter"
[grameen foundation, ithaca hours, timebanks usa]
* "proportional representation" "restorative justice" "conflict resolution" "peer mediation" "consensus decision-making"
[green party, alternatives to violence project]
* "new urbanism" "neighborhood conservation"
[example of self-sufficient residential community campus plan: http://www.houstonprogressive.org/campus94.html]
* egalitarian, pluralism, isocracy

Anything that organizes local democracies where people and communities can operate independently and self-sufficiently, in order to manage larger populations by solving problems cooperatively instead of competition among the minority in charge to dominate over the majority, creating unequal, imbalanced relations and oppression.

Answer 4

There is a return to manners afoot in the corporate world; treating others with respect and (what used to be common) decency. I would say that classes in etiquette will give anyone and advantage over someone lacking in social graces.

Answer 5

ample knowledge of the computer