Responsible leadership: what is it, and where do we go from here?

Anand Narasimhan

What exactly is responsible leadership? I must admit that during my training as a leadership scholar in the 1990s, this question wasn’t a pressing one. The practitioner-oriented books I relied on while teaching leadership soon after – such as James Kouzes and Barry Posner’s The Leadership Challenge or Lee Bolman and Terry Deal’s Reframing Leadership – focused on performance, people, politics, structure, culture, and vision but didn’t place responsible leadership at the forefront. However, the world has changed dramatically in the wake of movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. New priorities, ranging from environmental sustainability to systemic injustice, have fundamentally reshaped the conversation, not only in popular discussions on leadership but also in boardrooms and C-suites. The debate over what…

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