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Published date01 April 2020
Date01 April 2020
Pages45-45
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-04-2020-182
AuthorJavier Bajer
Subject MatterHR & organizational behaviour,Employee behaviour
Editorial
Javier Bajer
Is courageous leadership an illusion?
Courageous Leadership
Yesterday I had lunch with thehead of one of the world’s most respected Business Schools,
in London. He is very worried. The vast amount ofacademic knowledge, effectively passed
on to herds of hopeful-and-soon-to-be-global-leaders, is not going to make much of a
difference, he believes.
The world needs courageousleaders indeed: people who can relieve us from the perils of the
swarm of uncertainty that we got ourselves into. People who can take us back to where we
once were, when work was an integral part of life. To the days when we wereable to get on
with things and actually enjoy what we did every day. Leaders who we could trust with the
complicatedbits, allowing us to grow and feel proud of the impact we were having.
But it appears that we need to re-think how we go about finding or growing that type of
leadership. If we keep applying the same approaches, we are most likely going to be
experiencingthe same sort of results.
It is my hope that this issue of Strategic HR Reviewwill help you (and many others) move on,
in a new direction. That it will inspireyou to try new and more challenging approaches on how
you go about developing leadership inside your organisation. That, perhaps, you will also
personally grow,as a result.
I’ve written my own opinion piecefor this issue of SHR, as this topic is very dear to my heart.
When you read it, you will find why.
DOI 10.1108/SHR-04-2020-182 VOL. 19 NO. 2 2020, p. 45, ©Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 1475-4398 jSTRATEGIC HR REVIEW jPAGE 45

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