Vandergriff: 4th generation leadership (2)
by David Steven | Mar 22, 2007
Retired US army major, Donald Vandergiff (see last week’s post), asks “seven key questions that need to be answered in order to solve the problem of how to create leaders who can deal with the future of warfare.”
- What is an adaptive leader?
- What traits must he or she possess?
- Can those traits be quantified?
- What conditions have to exist to create and nurture those traits that an adaptive leader possesses?
- What are the differences between adapatability, agility and innovation?
- How have past and present Army command and control methods restricted and even diminished adaptive leaders?
- Do the beliefs, policies, regulations and laws that shape Army culture support adaptive leaders and innovation?
Anyone know of any organisation that has got rigorous answers to these questions?
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David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
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