Abstract
This chapter starts with a very brief historical overview of leadership to lay the ground for exploring a number of contemporary challenges to responsible management. Examples of such challenges are the speed of decision-making, Internet time, globalization, diversity, and rapid technological shifts. We reveal an underlying thread leading to identifying opportunities to meeting such challenges. One aspect of this common thread turns out to be a direct connection to the Person-Centered Approach, which we introduce to the reader.
In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. […] It means lack of rigidity and […] a tolerance of ambiguity where ambiguity exists. It means the ability to receive much conflicting information without forcing closure upon the situation.
Carl Rogers (1961, p. 353)
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Motschnig, R., Ryback, D. (2016). Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities at Work. In: Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45486-3_1
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