As part of our project study, we decided to take a look first at popular leadership theories that are considered part of the “traditional” domain.
As new work structures come into being, there has been an onslaught of new styles of leadership, adopted to great success in different use cases. To state an example, the pandemic has highlighted the importance of a virtual work environment, thereby making the concept of E-leadership more important than it has ever been.
In a similar context, our paper outlines a few more recent leadership styles that have witnessed popularity in recent times and have been widely adopted by present-day leaders.
With the passage of time, new research has exhibited the need to rework this framework and develop more relevant concepts that deal with navigating the VUCA world.
The reimagination of VUCA leadership is primarily headlined by professors Jennifer Jordan, Michael Wade and Tomoko Yokoi, who assert that the future of leadership requires leaders to extract theories from both traditional and emergent styles. They state that future leaders need more than just styles, and certainly more than one particular style.
