Dana Zohar has been on a forefront of thinking about leadership in our complex global world. As I revisited her website today I found this Credo.
Sorry Dana for copying it straight from your website, but I believe it is a great summary of what is needed in leadership across the world today:
Would you commit to the following words as being your words resulting in your actions?
-- I believe global business has the money and the power to make a significant difference in today’s troubled world, and that by making that difference it can help itself as well as others. I envisage business raising its sights above the bottom line. I envisage business becoming a vocation, like the higher professions.
To make this possible I believe that business must add a moral dimension, becoming more service- and value-oriented and largely eliminating the assumed natural distinction between private enterprise and public institutions. I envisage business taking responsibility for the world in which it operates and from which it creates its wealth. And I envisage myself becoming one of those business leaders who are “servant leaders”–leaders who serve not just stockholders, colleagues, employees, products, and customers, but also the community, the planet, humanity, the future, and life itself. --
