TITLE:
A Review of “Leading from the Emerging Future”: Any Lesson for Nigerian Leaders?
AUTHORS:
Victor E. Dike
KEYWORDS:
Leadership and Change, Emerging Future, Ego-System Awareness, Eco-System Reality, Shifting Mental Models, Nigeria
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.3,
March
6,
2015
ABSTRACT:
This article reviews Leading from
the Emerging Future [1] and explores whether or not the political leaders of Nigeria can learn
any lesson from it. This book concentrates on practical approach that empowers
leaders to shift their mindsets from ego-system awareness to eco-system reality
to enable them to transform the extant extractive economic and political
institutions that hinder national development. Unlike previous studies on
leadership and change in Nigeria, which have simply observed that the system
has been rendered unproductive for decades by poor leadership. This article
argues that the problem with Nigeria is that the political leaders have failed
to shift their engrained mindsets from “ego-system awareness to eco-system” to
build effective institutions to drive the economy. It also argues that discussion of the issue of leadership in the society
deserves a different approach to changing the ossified institutions into
innovative and creative ones as this would inspire the leaders to collectively
shift their mental models to design and implement policies that would fit into
the 21st century economy and empower them to lead from the emerging future.