Back in the fall of 2018, I first started thinking about what leadership would look like in 2020. Although the new decade of leadership was months away, I had a strong sense that it would bring many new challenges for leaders everywhere. My curiosity stemmed from my interest in providing leaders with a 2019 roadmap that would help them to be well prepared for whatever leadership challenges 2020 might bring.
To be sure, I could not have imagined the full magnitude of leadership challenges we face today, but I was certain that leaders would be ill prepared for the new decade of leadership if they did not re-examine and even challenge some of their popular notions about leadership.