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Differences That the 21st Century Leader Faces From Those Faced By the 20th Century
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Differences that the 21st century leader faces from those faced by the 20th century leader
20th century vs. 21st century leadership
Business leadership is an important aspect of every organization. In fact, leaders play
the most important role in linking the resources to the organizational processes and that help
in the steering of the organization. In this case, the leader is responsible for coordinating how
the human resources utilize other organizational resources to accomplish the targets of the
organization, which in this case means the delivery of a particular standard of service or
products. However, as organizations strive to adjust their processes to the various
chronological changes, this makes it a requirement for business leaders to change in line with
the organizational needs as well as other internal and external forces in order to ensure that
they maintain leverage over other market players. In return, this creates new challenges over
time and that these leaders have to deal with in order to succeed in their endeavors. In order to
understand these differences, the following paper will analyze the business framework and
platform of the 20th century and contrast it against that of the twenty-first century as well as
the business leadership requirements within the two eras. In return, this will help understand
the differences in challenges as well as possible challenges that may occur in the future of
business leadership and operations.
20th vs. 21st business landscapes
The 20th-century landscape was different from the modern business landscape. In this
case, there were many areas that the business platform was different from the modern one. It
is important to note that, unlike the present when sovereignty prevails across the world, and
that has facilitated easy market penetration and globalization of organizations, the 20th
century was often limited to regional blocks (Dekker, 2013). This was more so the case with
the formation of allies and also the enmity that prevailed across rival regions. At the same
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time, there was no proper infrastructure to expand the businesses as well as move resources
from one region to another. This lim...