Leadership development in the brave new world

The economic downturn has demonstrated spectacular shortcomings in the abilities of some business leaders, especially in the financial sector. In turn this has raised questions about the efficacy of leadership development and training. Fiona Nicholson finds out what has gone wrong and what 21st century leadership development should really look like.
 

In more prosperous times, it could be assumed that leaders were doing their job well and that leadership development was also ticking the right boxes.