Welcome to The Future Leaders Institute blog for the Special Projects course led by Dr Crystallee Crain. This term you will be exposed to training, group processes and activities that will develop your leadership and ability to solve problems in your community. Follow the guidelines below and ask any questions that you feel are relevant when getting to know yourself and others as a leaders. What qualities do future leaders need to meet the challenges of the 21st century? In this article the author highlights key areas below as core concepts of leadership for the future.
• systems thinking to identify paradigms driving change, • mediation skills to facilitate knowledge sharing, ensure stakeholders' ownership and foster innovation • vision rooted in community service and ethical behavior, • decisiveness in ever changing environments with blurred boundaries. Comment and share your opinion on one of these aspects. Provide a critical analysis on the ways you see this displayed in current day public (nonprofit, government) and private (corporate/small business) leadership. In what ways are these concepts lived up to in our current circumstances? In what ways could we grow and develop new solutions to today's most pressing problems. How do you hope to change the way leadership is practiced? This post is a way for you to introduce yourself through the values that you share and ideas you have to offer to the group. Minimum 75 words. Posting Requirements.
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Chelsey B
4/18/2014 03:40:43 pm
In order to address the challenges of the 21st century, future leaders need to have their vision rooted in community service and ethical behavior. The challenges communities are facing today require much more than just donating money and expecting someone else to solve the problem. In order to make a difference we need to work together as a community and take these challenges head on. I believe that the saying “the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts,” is the essence of the strength of a community working together. Participating in community service cultivates a greater cohesion amongst its members, therefore strengthening the ability to problem solve.
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Tiffany L.
4/19/2014 02:32:12 pm
Current leaders and future leaders of the 21st century need to have a vision rooted in community service and ethical behavior. I believe in intersectionality and solidarity. Each individual can identify themselves in many ways, and the commonalities that people share will create unity that can propel a movement forward. In addition to the unification among members of a group, allies are necessary in accomplishing a goal. With a clear purpose in mind, a group can work together to serve the community.
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Margaux C.
4/19/2014 02:46:04 pm
During the 21st century, our society faces problems from the past that still separate us from each other and grants certain individuals to have more than other people.
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Marlene Ornelas
4/20/2014 12:23:51 pm
What qualities do future leaders need to meet the challenges of the 21st century?
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Ryan S
4/22/2014 01:52:48 pm
The millennial activist and its predecessor face an entirely familiar, yet vastly different set of challenges. The 'change the world' mentality seems somewhat overwhelming in 2014 probably because the dynamics of the world community are much expanded from the time of revolutionaries like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Moreover, this expanded awareness has resulted in a disparity between the issues at hand and our personal ability to make a substantial contribution. Corpwatch published an article, “Cambodian Villagers Land Bulldozed for UDG Casino Complex,” explaining the “concession [of a] 45,000-hectacre plot” (corpwatch.org) by the Cambodian government to a Chinese development firm with the justification that a new casino would attract foreign tourism and investment. Furthermore, “some 1,100 families have been evicted from their lands, [under] fake promises from the authority and [the company] [that] took over their land without fair compensation” (corpwatch.org). This situation seems increasingly common as industrialization finds its way into the last strongholds of pre-modern— at least by the American standard—society. If this is what the modern activist has to look forward to, then it is easy to see how a person could be deterred simply by the scale, let alone variety, of issues.
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