Affiliations: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Abstract: An underlying postulate for the future is that a leader must influence an institution more than it influences him or her. Balancing artful leadership attributes with management science capabilities calls for new organizational structures, policies, processes and styles. Freer-form organizations are needed. At least ten attributes of these are outlined for study. New leadership issues are sprouting from the leading edge of scientific, technological, political, economic, social and cultural forces already at work. These issues are: intellectual operations, phenomenon of power, abstract relationships, material world and ethical-legal-religious spheres of sentient and moral powers. A third framework of the human mind is suggested with respect to the teleological-ideological, instinctive, spiritual and charismatic (TISC) attributes of a leader. This TISC framework is in addition to the logical, rational, sequential and quantitative (LRSQ) and the perceptive, intuitive, simultaneous and qualitative (PISQ) optimal working frameworks of the human mind proposed by Zeleny [10]. The new breed of leaders may find this triple framework helpful in initiating and maintaining structure in expectation and interaction which is the true meaning of leading-edge-leadership.
