Daily Guide to Becoming: A Leader for Tomorrow
Daily Guide to Becoming: A Leader for Tomorrow
Reneé J. Murdock | 2024
Abstract
The top challenge for CEOs is developing the next generation of leaders. CEOs need to develop leaders at all levels of the organization, but only 5% of businesses have leadership development programs at all levels. In this paper, we will review the current state and the art of business leadership development.
Individuals do not start businesses with an obligation to fail. They believe their idea(s) is innovative and will change the future of how we live and operate. Organizations worldwide desire virtuous leaders to lead people, initiatives, projects, and resources to keep the business going for centuries. Why do organizations fail, have a high turnover rate, or create barriers to innovation? This doctoral project aims to show the importance that great leaders are not born or made overnight. There is an intentional sacrifice of doing the opposite of the human instinct. Additionally, this project aims to show how becoming a leader is evolutionary and not a once-off training.
The qualitative research was done through observations of senior executives in corporate, government, and religious organizations, case studies done by Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE), surveys conducted by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, and videos. Senior executives are looking for individuals to take over key roles. They are still puzzled as to why employees are leaving their organizations. There are challenges in providing career growth opportunities for entry-level and mid-level employees. The findings show that when employees are valued and included in key organizational decisions making, they are likely to stay and excel. Leadership development is vital to succession planning and innovation. These findings indicate the need for looking at leadership development from a holistic perspective. What are we meditating on, doing, or reading? What we meditate on feeds our soul, what feeds our soul feeds the heart, and what is in the heart displays in our behaviors.
The project resulted in a manual script of a daily guide to becoming a leader for tomorrow. Individuals become who they are by what they do. Readers are challenged to meditate, reevaluate, adjust, and gain a new perspective on how they view themselves and others. Great leaders are transformational, evolving, recognizing the needs of others, and providing an ethical environment to change the world. What a leader is becoming is always a work that has yet to be finished. Individuals will continue to be re-formalized, remolded, relearning, and becoming what is necessary for the perfected time. Continued research on full leadership development is needed based on gender, sex, and the industry.