The New Corporate CEO

According to Warren Bennis and a host of other management experts a new type of corporate leader is emerging today. The New York Times article, with the tagline "Has the time come for C.E.O. Version 3.0?".  According to the article, the corporate world now wants leaders with people skills:

Now, management experts and longtime watchers of corporate America say the current environment demands, and is attracting, yet another kind of chief executive: the team builder.  “It’s someone who can assemble a team that functions as smoothly as a jazz sextet,” said Warren Bennis.“ They’ve got to have not just the cognitive ability to run a major firm, .... but the ability to make people feel like they’re working together,”

Some of the key attributes of these leaders includes initiating change and not being hated for it, learning to listen to the culture if hired new from the outside, and stimulating internal growth through motivating people, and sparking creativity and innovation.